Street Art

Phase 2, who in the early 1970s was one of the most prolific, inventive and emulated New York graffiti writers, and who later produced early hip-hop’s most innovative fliers, died on Dec. 12 at a nursing and rehabilitation center in the Bronx. He was 64. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou […] More

As New York was still coming to terms with the killing of the Barnard student Tessa Majors, a Bronx teenager, Karol Sanchez, was abducted in what turned out to be a hoax. More

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Camilo Fidel López come, bebe, piensa, duerme y respira grafiti. Donde el ojo promedio ve paredes de edificios vacías y monótonas, López, fundador de Vértigo Graffiti, un grupo de artistas que se dedican a esa forma de arte, ve lienzos en blanco, oportunidades para promover de manera colorida causas de justicia social, […] More

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Camilo Fidel López eats, drinks, thinks, sleeps and breathes graffiti. Where the average eye sees empty and drab building walls, Mr. López, the founder of the graffiti artists crew Vértigo Graffiti, sees blank canvases, opportunities to colorfully further the cause of social justice, whether in his home city — the Colombian capital, […] More

On the Friday evening before the final big weekend of summer, members of one of New York’s last private beach clubs, the Silver Gull in Queens, received an ominous email. The club’s playground would be closed, the manager wrote, “due to the recent and increasing incidence of vandalism from within the club.” Word soon spread […] More

The owner of a new kosher steakhouse in Crown Heights wanted the mural painted over, according to the rumor. Sean Price, the mural’s subject, a local rapper who was known to his fans as “Ruck” and who made up half of the hip-hop duo Heltah Skeltah, had died in 2015 from unknown causes. His lyrics […] More