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01STREET ART
02Walls as Canvases
03NAME AS ART
04SUBWAY ERA
05WILD STYLE
06KEITH HARING
07JEAN-MICHEL
08BASQUIAT
09THE CRACKDOWN
10STENCIL REVOLUTION
11BANKSY
12MURAL MOVEMENT
13DISTRICTS
14DIGITAL AFTERLIFE
15CREDITS & VIEWING

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01STREET ART
02Walls as Canvases
03NAME AS ART
04SUBWAY ERA
05WILD STYLE
06KEITH HARING
07JEAN-MICHEL
08BASQUIAT
09THE CRACKDOWN
10STENCIL REVOLUTION
11BANKSY
12MURAL MOVEMENT
13DISTRICTS
14DIGITAL AFTERLIFE
15CREDITS & VIEWING

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Slide 01

STREET ART

// 13-slide deck // wall to wall
Walls as Canvases
From midnight tags on Philly rowhouses to billion-dollar Banksys —
a 60-year sprint of paint, politics, and provocation.

Slide 02

NAME AS ART

// origins // late 1960s
Modern graffiti is born on two coasts. Philadelphia's Darryl
"Cornbread" McCray scrawls his nickname across the city to win a
girl's attention. In NYC, Greek-American teen Demetrius — tag
Taki 183 — bombs subways on his messenger route. A 1971 New York
Times profile of Taki ignites the bug citywide.
Cornbread
Philly, 1965-67. The first modern "writer."
Taki 183
Manhattan, 1969-71. Tag = name + street number.
Julio 204
Pre-Taki Bronx writer; lower fame, same blueprint.

Slide 03

SUBWAY ERA

// 1970s // iron canvas
The MTA's silver trains become a moving gallery rolling through
every borough. Whole-car burners. Top-to-bottoms. A pre-internet network
where reputation traveled at 35 mph.
Lee Quiñones
Lower East Side; whole-car murals; later Wild Style (1983).
Futura 2000
Atomic-age abstraction; collaborator with The Clash.
Phase 2
Inventor of the bubble / "softie" letter.
Style Wars (1983)
Tony Silver + Henry Chalfant's PBS doc — the canonical record.

Slide 04

WILD STYLE

// the alphabet weaponized
Letters fold into letters until only insiders can read them. Arrows,
flares, 3D, force-fields. Photographer Henry Chalfant shoots
thousands of doomed pieces — without him, half the canon is unrecorded.
His book Subway Art (1984, with Martha Cooper) becomes the global
instruction manual.

Slide 05

KEITH HARING

// 05 // chalk on black paper
Pittsburgh-born, SVA-trained, Haring (1958-1990) draws his radiant
babies, barking dogs and dancing figures in chalk on the matte-black
ad-blanks in NYC subway stations — 40+ a day. Cops arrest him
repeatedly. By 1986 he opens the Pop Shop: art for $5, a
scandalous collapse of street and gallery.
1980-85
Subway drawings — public, free, ephemeral.
1986
Pop Shop opens in Soho; activism via merch.
1988-90
HIV+ disclosure; Crack is Wack mural; dies aged 31.

Slide 06

JEAN-MICHEL

// SAMO© // 1977-1980
BASQUIAT
Brooklyn teen Basquiat (1960-1988) and friend Al Diaz spray cryptic
aphorisms — "SAMO© AS AN END 2 PLAYING ART" — on Lower Manhattan
walls. By 22 he's the youngest artist ever in Documenta; by 24
on the cover of NYT Magazine; by 27 dead of an overdose. The
market still hasn't recovered: Untitled (1982) sold for
$110.5M in 2017.

Slide 07

THE CRACKDOWN

// reaction // 1984-89
Mayor Koch declares war. The MTA spends $300M+ on the "buff" —
chemical washes, graffiti-resistant paint, razor-wire layups, K-9 units.
The Vandal Squad, founded 1980, treats writers as organized crime.
On 12 May 1989 the last graffiti-covered train is pulled from service.
Many writers move to canvas, illustration, fashion — or to Europe.
Clean Train Movement, 1989
Buff = grey-on-grey erasure
Felony charges in NY by 1995

Slide 08

STENCIL REVOLUTION

// cardboard cut // 1981→
Paris, 1981 — Xavier Prou, working as Blek le Rat, sprays
small stencilled rats across the city: fast, repeatable, recognizable.
He invents the visual language — life-sized figures, single-coat black —
that Banksy will later admit "every time I think I've painted
something slightly original, I find out Blek le Rat has done it as well,
only twenty years earlier."

Slide 09

BANKSY

// Bristol → everywhere // 1990s+
An anonymous Bristol writer turns stencil into headline. Girl with
Balloon, the West Bank wall pieces, Dismaland, and the 2018
Sotheby's self-shredding stunt. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
is Oscar-nominated. In 2021 his Love is in the Bin sells for
$25.4M. Identity: still officially unknown.
2002
First LA show; stencils go international.
2005
Nine pieces on the Israeli West Bank barrier.
2018
"Shredding" of Girl with Balloon mid-auction.
2023
Glastonbury inflatable life vest stunt; Channel-crossing satire.

Slide 10

MURAL MOVEMENT

// from vandalism to civic asset
The same cities that buffed in the 80s now commission. Philadelphia
Mural Arts (founded 1984 as anti-graffiti, now 4,000+ legal walls).
Pow! Wow! Hawaii (2010→). POW! WOW! Worcester. Mural festivals in
Lisbon, Mexico City, Lodz. Aerosol artists shift from outlaw to civic
contractor — and argue, often, about what got lost.
Permission walls
Lift-bucket scale
Brand sponsorship
"Mural-washing" critique

Slide 11

DISTRICTS

// 11 // the painted neighborhood
Wynwood (Miami)
Tony Goldman's 2009 Wynwood Walls turn an industrial dead-zone into a $1B art-tourism corridor.
Bushwick (Brooklyn)
The Bushwick Collective curates an open-air gallery on warehouse rolldowns.
Shoreditch (London)
Brick Lane → Hackney; Stik, ROA, Invader, D*Face.
Belleville (Paris)
Rue Denoyez = the legal training-ground for a generation.
Critics call it "street-art-as-real-estate-strategy": pieces beget cafés beget condos beget evictions.

Slide 12

DIGITAL AFTERLIFE

// the wall in your pocket
A Banksy gets buffed in 48 hours but lives on Instagram forever. AR
layers (Snap, Niantic, Apple Vision) let artists deposit pieces on
sites they never physically touch. NFT graffiti, projection bombing,
and geo-tagged AR tags reframe the medium: ephemerality is now
optional, and ownership is contested differently than in 1973.
@streetartglobe / @globalstreetart
Google Street Art Project (2014)
Insa "GIF-iti"
AR overlay activism

Slide 13

CREDITS & VIEWING

// fin // refs & rabbit holes
Cooper, Martha & Chalfant, Henry. Subway Art (1984) — the source.
Castleman, Craig. Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York (1982).
Ellsworth-Jones, Will. Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall (2012).
Tate Modern. "Street Art" exhibition catalogue (2008).
Documentary: Style Wars (Tony Silver / Henry Chalfant, 1983, PBS).
Documentary: Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010).
▶ Watch: Style Wars (1983)
▶ Watch: Exit Through the Gift Shop
"All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra power. You
have to either accept they have an opinion, or paint over them." — Banksy

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