From a Kid's Point of View
vom 24.11.2009

This is an excerpt from a film made in the 1980's. The film looks at 1980's New York City from a kid's point of view. This particular excerpt focuses on subway graffiti.

Subway World
vom 07.09.2009

 

Subway World is a book about graffiti on subway trains all over the world. What started in New York in the seventies has become an worldwide artform with thousands of artists. The tradition of using subway cars as canvases has been preserved and has become an integrated part of the graffiti movement. Subway World takes you through more than 75 cities and four different  continents. Everywhere where there are subway trains there is graffiti. From Moscow in Russia and Tbilsi in Georgia through Hiroshima in Japan, Los Angeles in the USA, Toronto in Canada and Buenos Aires in Argentina to London, Berlin, Milan and Paris in Europe. Subway World gives you hard facts on all the subway systems aswell as short stories and trivia. Includes work by Banos, D30, Rebok, KHC, WUFC-SDK, KetOne, 7DC, EWC, THE, Rocks, RCLS, Mutants, Toy, Lujoss and many more. Cities featured are, among others: Athens, Atlanta, Berlin, Belo Horizonte, Boston, Brasilia, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki,Hiroshima, Kiev, Kobe, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Milan, Montréal, Moscow, Nagoya, New York City, Osaka, Oslo, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, Rome, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Santo Domingo, Stockholm, Seoul, Tbilisi, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna, Washington DC and Warsaw.

We have a little book preview for you after the jump

A Subway Graffiti Artist’s Last Work
vom 21.07.2009

 

"So that subway facade is now considered the last work that was done by Iz the Wiz, arguably the most prolific graffiti artist, and was the site of a candlelight memorial service several days after his death.Tuff City employees are deciding how to preserve the panels — whether to donate them to a museum, make them part of a traveling exhibit or disassemble them for galleries. Inquiries about the panel have come in from around the world. “We’re not sure what is going to happen with it yet,� Mr. Brick said. “We just know it is not going to be painted over.�

The full NY Times article "about Iz´s last work before he died here