Fred Brathwaite—better known as Fab 5 Freddy—contains multitudes. Born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, he grew up in a house steeped in books, music, and radical Black consciousness. Skipping school ...

In the early 1970s, the pioneer generation of graffiti writers from A-One to Zephyr were making their presence known on New York’s streets and subways. Theirs were wild, energetic styles that caught ...

The screening of Wild Style highlights another milestone in Freddy's career. Widely considered one of the earliest films to ...

The Museum of City of New York’s upcoming City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection, is the first exhibition of the 1970s and ’80s graffiti art amassed by artist and pioneering ...

Sacha Jenkins, left, co-curated the graffiti exhibit, "Write of Passage," which opened in New York in October. Photos by Robert Adam Mayer/Red Bull Content Pool Armed with magic markers on a ...

There’s a hidden history of Los Angeles that can be found under the city’s bridges, within tunnels, and on building walls. Author and urban ethnographer Susan Phillips puts together an archive of ...

Like any restless teenager during the pandemic, Jacob needed an outlet. So in 2020, as buildings boarded up and the city streets went silent, he stole a can of spray paint, snuck out of his house and ...

First off, the spray-painted letters and stenciled scrawls all over Los Angeles aren’t street art. They’re graffiti art—a semantic distinction often blurred by the most passionate fans of this largely ...

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