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Head in the Clouds: Mickael Broth’s Story

December 28, 2012
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    If These Walls Could Talk… …They would tell his story. His story is of that of a street artist who ended up on the wrong side of cell bars. His illustrations speak of childhood adventures that led to incarceration. Outside of his cell, before ending up serving a 10 month term, Mickael Broth’s [...]

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Ode to Roberts – “Stay High 149″

July 31, 2012
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  “I find it beautiful, that’s why I do it” – Wayne Roberts As graffiti legends of the past enter into the winter of their lives and pass on, I am kicking myself that I didn’t venture into the study of graffiti art earlier. Just as I mourned the deaths of Frank Sinatra and Richard [...]

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Observing the Rogue Artist

July 9, 2012
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Wrong place, wrong time is a predicament photographer, Jonas Lara is all too familiar with. Artists have always been considered among the “bottom of the rung” on society’s ladder. Beethoven and Van Gogh were considered eccentric and outcasts of society, but graffiti artists get backlash and then some…and their wrap is getting grimmer.  In many [...]

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TAKI 183: Celebrating the Greatest

July 27, 2011
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From Audubon and Amsterdam Ave., NYC to now: How fitting is it that the earliest graffiti etchings can be traced all the way back to ancient Greece, the word “graffiti” comes from the Greek word “graphein” which means “to write” and that one of the greatest graffiti writers in the world is a kid from [...]

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Blurring the Lines: Graffiti VS. Vandalism

July 23, 2011
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City officials all over the country are up in arms about how out of hand this so called graffiti is getting. As a supporter of art and especially graffiti, I’d like to finally take a stand and say: It’s not the graffiti itself, that creates the problems– it’s when wayward youth with nothing but time [...]

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