City As Canvas

The Collection of Martin Wong

Museum of the City of New York

Early collection for graffiti in NYC that traces the origins of tags with the street numbers the tag writers were from all the way through to the 80’s with full subway car take-overs. Early artists including DAZE, Keith Haring, Lee Quinones, Lady Pink, Kenny Scharf, Futura 2000 and many more. This is an expansive collection of one possessed individual who saw the early value of this burgeoning art movement. He died of AIDs in 1999, but left his collection of graffiti and graffiti “Black Books” to the city of New York to share with everyone. This is a seminal show, Check it out!

mcny.org

Erik Den Breejen

There’s A Riot Goin’ On

Freight And Volume

Painter of text which include lyrics, poetry, jokes that create iconic figures of 1970’s popular culture. Painstakingly created, these epically scaled portraits draw you in with their words, but reveal a larger image from a far. Very cool. Check it out.

freightandvolume.com