How Hip-Hop culture and graffiti electrified the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries in 1980s New York In the early 1980s, art and Writing labeled as graffiti began to transition from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries.
Young artists who freely sampled from their urban experiences and their largely Black, Latinx and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with expressionist, pop and graffiti-inspired com.
How Hip-Hop culture and graffiti electrified the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries in 1980s New York In the early 1980s, art and Writing labeled as graffiti began to transition from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries
