The Museum of Graffiti was just named one of the Top 26 Museums in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report. As the world’s first museum dedicated to graffiti culture, we bring the evolution of graffiti, from the 1970s to today, to life in vibrant colors. This is especially impressive because the museum was formed only 5 years ago by 2 people with big dreams who really put their community first, who had yet to have a place to call their own.
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STYLE MASTERS: The Birth of the Graffiti Art Movement, curated by @alanket and presented by the Museum of Graffiti, now on display at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. This exhibition traces the evolution of graffiti from the early pioneers to today’s masters. Featuring iconic works by over 100 writers including legendary artists like Phase2, Tracy168, Blade, T-Kid170, Seen, Lady Pink, Sonic, and Quik who helped shape the art movement. Join us tonight for the special opening! Link in bio.
#StyleMasters #GraffitiHistory #GraffitiExhibition #ArtCollector #graffitiworld #graffitiart #stylewriting
New book alert! #thewideworldofgraffiti featuring words by me, foreword by @osgemeos and featuring top writers from around the world is out this Friday at @museumofgraffiti and now at our online shop. Thanks to all the contributors everywhere. #graffiti #graffitiart #graffitibooks #artbook #buynow
After the book fair I headed to Paris in order to get a few hours of train benching in. Photographing trains and learning about who is active in a particular city is something that still interests me and goes back to my teen years in Brooklyn. Paris’ 8 train line is full of graffiti : panels, end to ends, whole cars, tags, and even the occasional throw up. As active as the scene is, it also seems like cleaning efforts are strong as I noticed dozens of clean cars with remnants of paint around the windows and doors. The variety of styles are vast and range from plain styles and block letters to all types of varieties of wild style and some ugly styles. There are even cartoon pieces and other new wave stuff. Here are a few videos to give you an idea of what’s going on. #trainspotting #subwayart #subwaygraffiti #graffititrain #graffitiworld
A few images from the Urban Art Biennale held at @voelklinger_huette which is a former steel factory turned art museum. It’s in a small town in Germany but well worth the visit. I was not able to see many of the installations due to my limited time there but caught a few of the installations including ones by @alexfakso@joachimromain@vortexx_gdc seen here. Loved the piece by @bigtimebrad and @boris_tellegen but I didn’t get photos. Glad to see @kadir_amigo_memis@nielsshoemeulman@remirough and @oxpostertime ! I am also sharing images of the building and murals on the outside of the building that I imagine were part of a previous event here. #urbanartbiennale #urbanart #insitu #contemporanyart #artinstallation
I was 19 years old when I collected the signatures, tags, and pieces in this book. All of them came from 3 places - my very first trip to Los Angeles where I painted and explored the city with Charlie, Frame, Risk, and Power. On this trip I met the late, great Tempt and the incomparable Defer. Zeno and I painted the famous Belmont Tunnel for the first time, painted a few freeways, and were put up on ice by @og_slick (it had yet to make it to the east coast). The 2nd place the signatures came from was the opening of Martin Wong’s short lived American Museum of Graffiti (on Bond St.). The opening was a who’s who of writers and I happened to set off the book that day. This is where the Dondi, A-One, Vulcan, and Stash2 tags came from. The last was my apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - at the time a great graffiti club house for me and my friends. In those days we were all broke and spent most of our free time trying to secure paint, food, and other essentials. It was the days of Olde English, Philly Blunts, and Rustoleum. Life was unpredictable in many ways but with the help of my friends and family I made it and didn’t fall victim to the Crack epidemic that took so many lives in my neighborhood. I look back at these pages and all the names fondly, happy to have met so many great writers in my youth.
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From the Streets to the Page: My Life as a Graffiti Publisher ✦ Talk by Alan Ket (US) at Unlock Book Fair 2026.
What drives someone to dedicate thirty years to documenting graffiti culture? @alankets started out as a graffiti writer in Brooklyn, New York in the 1980s. He met the photographer Henry Chalfant in high school, who became a role model, encouraging him to document his own art and the art movement.
Ket founded Stress magazine in 1996 and has since published over fifteen specialised books. He is an artist, graffiti historian and cofounder of the Museum of Graffiti. In this talk, he shares the story and why he chose publishing as a path that honours the culture he loves.
âž” From the Streets to the Page: My Life as a Graffiti Publisher
✦ Talk with Alan Ket (US)
30 min • Day TBA
Don’t miss the feast of graffiti, art and subcultures! 📚🔥❤️🎉
Unlock Book Fair 2026 • 8–10 May • Völklinger Hütte @voelklinger_huette • Presented by Urban Art Biennale and GRACE Project
Rest in peace Danny Dann the Beatmann @beatmann2407beats . Here’s one of the photo albums I acquired from him years ago. #graffiti #graffitiphotography #graffitiart #graffitihistory #bronxhistory
I had the pleasure to visit @mausolee.paris a phenomenal project organized by @lek_______paris and @sowat_dmv in an abandoned supermarket. This decade long project which was self funded and illegal had them take over a massive multi floor space and create fantastic works of art alongside a great group of collaborators of the years including @brusk_dmv@bom.k_dmv@tendo_lee_fuk@oclock156 and many others. For a brief moment they were able to open it up with permission from the city and Sowat was able to open it up for a special viewing. I can’t properly express in words the scale and complexity of the paintings and the tough conditions that they had in this former supermarket turned trap house and squat. Just wow…
#publicart #urbex #illegalart #artintervention #graffitiworld
A bad bunny and friends on the Paris metro. Watching the 8 line in Paris reminded me of Brooklyn in the 1980s with lots of pane pieces and diversity of styles. What a cool thing to witness. #paris #parisgraffiti #graffitiart #subwayart
