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How graffiti managed to take over the art world

Beyond the streets — A new show explores the evolution of street art, featuring hundreds of large scale works by over 150 contemporary artists.

  • Art
  • Miss Rosen

A hallucinatory trip around Europe, in photos

Debauchery days — Osvaldo Chance Jimenez has spent 16 years in the notorious NYC graffiti crew Peter Pan Posse. In a new book, he shares a treasure trove of shots from the road.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

A street hustler’s journey to world-renowned tattoo artist

Physical graffiti — As OBE1, Josh Peacock tagged the streets of Cambridge and dealt weed on the side. Then heroin and homelessness upended his life. But through the healing power of tattoos, he has reinvented himself as a different kind of artist.

  • Culture
  • Cyrus Shahrad

Meet Subset: The street art collective taking back Dublin

A city reclaimed — With their bold ongoing project, Grey Area, Irish collective SUBSET are protesting the criminalisation and censorship of street art.

  • Art
  • Michael Lanigan

The wild story of Basquiat's original partner in crime

Resurrecting an icon — Al Diaz and Basquiat rewrote the rules of street art before taking different paths: one as a hard-grafting musician, the other as an iconic artist. Both would be ravaged by drugs. Four decades on, the story is far from finished.

  • Art
  • Cian Traynor

Why giant murals of black women are popping up across London

‘You Are Enough’ — Appearing across the walls of the capital, Dreph’s portraits celebrate the humanity, beauty and strength of black British women.

  • Art
  • Dominique Sisley

Shining a light on graffiti's rebel underground

The Grifters Code — From climbing rooftops to outrunning police, Good Guy Boris has taken a world shrouded in secrecy and documented it in style. But now that he's compiled it all in a book, the next challenge awaits.

  • Culture
  • Cian Traynor

When graffiti is the only way to survive an urban battleground

A passport across boundaries — In San Salvador, refusing to conform can get you killed. But a wave of rebellious street artists are willing to risk everything in the name of self-expression.

  • Culture
  • Danielle Mackey

Shooting the Graffiti Trucks of Paris

Subverting the streets — For his latest zine photographer Marc Vallée took to the streets of Paris late at night, to capture the trucks that parade subversive graffiti throughout the city in an act of reclamation and defiance.

  • Photography
  • Dr. Oli Mould

These graffiti pen-pals are using street art to talk politics

Where activism and art overlap — Between London and Chicago, street artists Dont Fret and Edwin are turning their Whatsapp exchanges into pointed political displays scrawled across each other's cities.

  • Art
  • Marta Bausells

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