These early forms of graffiti can still be seen in ancient Roman ruins, where inscriptions and symbols were etched into public spaces, serving as a precursor to the modern graffiti art movement.

For Ricks, that inability to grasp the motivation has been there since the earliest days of the modern graffiti movement — something he tracks to the early 1980s in New York City. “Most people don’t ...

As interest in both the modern graffiti movement and its diasporic reverberations has grown, Wong’s conviction has proved consequential, his collection functioning as a repository. Pieces from ...

It made me realize, okay. Our modern ideas about graffiti are, are nothing like what was going on in the first century. GWIN: Okay so, no spray painting on subway cars and overpasses. BENEFIEL ...

For Ricks, that inability to grasp the motivation has been there since the earliest days of the modern graffiti movement — something he tracks to the early 1980s in New York City. “Most people ...

But modern graffiti, as distinguished from that in ancient Rome and the like, is generally considered to have begun in 1960s New York and Philadelphia, where bored, fame-hungry teenagers would spray ...

For Ricks, that inability to grasp the motivation has been there since the earliest days of the modern graffiti movement — something he tracks to the early 1980s in New York City. “Most people ...