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The days of New Yorkers writing graffiti are fading. Many of the newest crop of writers are Midwestern transplants and art school graduates who have given up the spray can in favor of wheat pasting and sticker-bombing. The old Blade, Dondi, and Zephyr pieces have been buffed or faded in all but a few closely guarded locations. There’s no doubt that Gotham’s graff scene is changing. It’s an inevitable process, as those who have been influenced by New York artists (vandals?) grow up and move to the city that started it all. Many argue that what these newcomers do isn’t graffiti at all, at least not in the traditional hip-hop sense. But New York is still the most important city in the world for graffiti, serving as a center for international graffiti and streets artists like Banksy, Os Gemeos, and the London Police. What follows is a handy identification guide of New York’s artists, graffiti or otherwise, who are putting their work out there, whether we like it or not.
Read more here…….New York: Graffiti Field Identification Guide Part 2
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