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Photos: American History of Graffiti

Photos from Neelon and Gastman's American History of Graffiti

By RIME, JOHN SLYMON, RYZE, JAMES MARSHALL, AND SMITH | March 31, 2011

Tracy 168, Fab Five Freddy, and Lady Pink painting the Coolidge Corner Theater for the Wild Style Boston Premiere, December 1983.

READ: "Cambridge author Caleb Neelon traces graffiti's hidden history" by Greg Cook

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Slideshow: Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photos of Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through August 7, 2011, in connection with Thomas Page McBee's review of the exhibit .
Alexander McQueen's 'Savage Beauty'
The two-hour wait is your first clue that "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through August 7) is not your typical blockbuster exhibit.
Jenny Holzer's projections remake buildings
Jenny Holzer is not an architect, but in 2004, when she projected those words onto the stone facade of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan's Times Square, the historic building acquired a character it had never before seen.
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Slideshow: Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photos of Alexander McQueen's ''Savage Beauty'' exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through August 7, 2011, in connection with Thomas Page McBee's review of the exhibit .
Alexander McQueen's 'Savage Beauty'
The two-hour wait is your first clue that "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through August 7) is not your typical blockbuster exhibit.
Jenny Holzer's projections remake buildings
Jenny Holzer is not an architect, but in 2004, when she projected those words onto the stone facade of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan's Times Square, the historic building acquired a character it had never before seen.
Cambridge author Caleb Neelon traces graffiti's hidden history
'TAKI 183' SPAWNS PEN PALS, announced the headline in the July 21, 1971, New York Times .
Alternative universe
In the 1930s and '40s, Boston painters developed a moody, mythic realism. They mixed social satire with depictions of street scenes, Biblical scenes, and mystical symbolic narratives, all of it darkened by the shadow of the Great Depression and World War II.
SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos]: Hey Champs, Bad Rabbits, Karen Elson
Photos of Hey Champs, Bad Rabbits, Karen Elson, Dead Confederate, and Carsick Cars at SXSW 2010
SXSW 2010 (Saturday): [Photos] J Mascis, Exene Cervenka, and Fucked Up
Photos of J Mascis, Exene Cervenka, and Fucked Up, live at SXSW 2010
Power plays
Some weeks back, I got to listen to Brown University archæology professor Stephen Houston pronounce the throaty, staccato sounds of Maya hieroglyphs carved across a six-foot-wide limestone panel.
Photos: Bumpkin Island Art Encampment
Artists share their work at the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment on July 31, 2010.
Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA
Shots of haute couture by Richard Avedon
Peter Max's pop life
Peter Max rocketed to fame as one of the iconic psychedelic artists of the late '60s.
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