Friends remember slain Oakland artist

A proclamation marks 10 years since the death of Mike ‘The Dream’ Francisco.

By Kristin Bender
Oakland Tribune

Mike “The Dream” Francisco was an Oakland graffiti artist who was shot and killed 10 years ago…

Aero-Soul Scientist: Subway Art Pioneer COCO 144 Opens New Show In NY

Original stencil work by street artist COCO 144

Over a decade before Henry Chalfant’s seminal 1982 documentary Style Wars introduced New York City’s subway art explosion to the rest of the world, a tiny group of young writers, including a 14-year-old who called himself COCO 144, started the entire movement by hitting the IRT’s Broadway line. This first school of aerosol artists, who focused on tagging their names on the iron horse so that it could travel to other neighborhoods, laid the blueprint for all facets of the culture, from Futura and Haring to Bansky. Sadly, some of the most dedicated hip-hop historians don’t even know their names. Thankfully, the legends of aerosol culture do.

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ENCOUNTERS!! GRAFFITI ART EXPO!