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Mike Kaves kicks off the second season of “The Brooklyn Way” tonight making it’s
national debut on Fuse TV. Premieres APRIL 17th at 10:30pm on FUSE.

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Graffiti has spread to the far corners of the earth and in the process has become the biggest art movement in history and every graffiti writer began his or her writing career with a tag. Developing an original, consistently written name is the primary act for a writer.
The photos in Tag Town, dating back to the 60’s, introduce us to the origins of New York style graffiti. Tags and pieces share a common heritage and by understanding one, you can understand the other. For those who learn to read tags, a world of aesthetic expression and communication opens up. Tags are a universal language – the jazz of lettering.
Tag Town also contains rare photos of work on the street by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, artists whose tag-inspired work helped found the rapidly growing street art movement.
The accompanying text is based on interviews with New York graffiti pioneers Blade, Part 1 and Snake 1.
Martha Cooper has specialized in photographing urban art and architecture in New York City for thirty years.

Using Google Map technology, artist Andy Clark has created ‘Street Art Locator‘, a tool enablng you the ability to not only upload street art from your area, but view art straight from the source anywhere around the world. The site has just gone live this week, so its a god chance to get your city in amongst things early on.

Info: Juxtapoz.

Evan Romoff and Keegan Gibbs have directed this great film Piece of Mind, an epic documentary that dives into the world of graffiti and the fight between the artist and law. “Focusing on Southern California’s “war on graffiti,” Piece of Mind is a timely examination of what society considers art, and why graffiti has moved beyond old standards of traditional artistic expression.” Take a look at the trailor of this great film that will debut at LAUFF (Los Angeles United Film Festival) this Sunday, April 20th so make sure you don’t miss it.

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