So Miami was a natural gathering place for graffiti artists during Art Basel in December 2023, and One Bayfront Plaza became the canvas for taggers from around the world. Over the course of a few ...

Graffiti, as an art form, has a complex relationship with gentrification. On one hand, it has engaged the streets and urban fabric as a canvas for ... a positive character and attracting newcomers.

Now its glass walls are a canvas for street artists, few of whom would otherwise be able to enjoy the luxuries promised by Oceanwide. Once the larger community of graffiti artists became aware of ...

“It’s nice because you paint it, and it leaves your life, and you don’t worry about it, unlike a canvas that ... classic letter graffiti, but then I switched to doing characters with a ...

“When all the teenagers were just writing their names on walls, he evolved and went bigger, painting murals and characters and portraits,” Alan Ket, a former New York graffiti artist and a ...

He says he has been drawing the characters for about ... it’s better to be painting on a canvas than a crack pipe.” And what is it exactly about graffiti that is so addictive?

Intentionally or not, the graffiti became an open canvas for anti-CCP remarks. Many went to Brick Lane to tag the work, adding their own creations and new characters to transform their meanings ...