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City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the 70s & 80s
Step onto the streets of New York City and experience one of the greatest
collections of early graffiti art in City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti
from the 70s & 80s.
Traveling to the IMA galleries from the Museum of the City of New York,
City as Canvas features more than 100 works from the Martin Wong
Collection and chronicles the origins of graffiti and its evolution from a
creative outlet—viewed by many at the time as a public nuisance—to an accepted
form of art. With intricate drawings, colorful works on canvas, and photographs
of graffiti writing that have long since been erased, this exhibition includes a
variety of seminal works by pioneering graffiti artists such as Keith Haring,
Lee Quiñones, LADY PINK, and FUTURA 2000.
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Step onto the streets of New York City and experience one of the greatest
collections of early graffiti art in City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti
from the 70s & 80s.
Traveling to the IMA galleries from the Museum of the City of New York,
City as Canvas features more than 100 works from the Martin Wong
Collection and chronicles the origins of graffiti and its evolution from a
creative outlet—viewed by many at the time as a public nuisance—to an accepted
form of art. With intricate drawings, colorful works on canvas, and photographs
of graffiti writing that have long since been erased, this exhibition includes a
variety of seminal works by pioneering graffiti artists such as Keith Haring,
Lee Quiñones, LADY PINK, and FUTURA 2000.
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This fall, step onto the streets of New York City and immerse yourself into the world of graffiti art with City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the 70s & 80s in the Indianapolis Museum of Art Galleries at Newfields from Oct. 7, 2017 through January 28, 2018.
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