One of New York’s most famous graffiti cliques back in the ‘70s was a Brooklyn-based crew, Graffiti Never Dies. I remember seeing a block-letter piece of theirs unsuccessfully squeezed onto a subway ...
In the early 1980s, Mayor Koch, enraged about graffiti, began buffing the city’s colorful, painted trains. In the end, he may have succeeded, but not before Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant captured the ...
Style Wars filmakers Tony Silver (Director/Producer) and Henry Chalfant (Producer/Photographer) chat with Garth Trinidad about the two-DVD set release of their legendary hip- hop/graffiti documentary.
Two weeks ago Style Wars, a PBS documentary on the early-Eighties graffiti scene in New York, was rereleased on DVD. For those who don't know, Style Wars is necessary viewing for anyone wishing to ...
“Style Wars,” the legendary movie detailing New York’s graffiti culture and the birth of Hip-Hop, will be re-released on August 23rd as a DVD 2-disc set distributed through Music Video Distribution ...
Meet the Mayor. Alamo City graffiti icon Cien isn’t quite sure when he was first acknowledged as San Antonio’s prime ambassador of hip-hop culture, but over the years the title has stuck. For 12-ounce ...
Jeffery "King Kase 2" Brown (aka Kase 2/Case 2) passed over the weekend at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx after a lengthy battle with cancer. Known as an originator of the "camouflage" sketching ...