Exhibition Opening: City as Canvas

Celebrate the opening of our special exhibition City as Canvas: New York City Graffiti from the 70s & 80s, with an evening filled with dueling DJs, beatboxing, breakdancing, and graffiti demonstrations from some of the exhibition’s featured artists. The exhibition features more than 100 works from the Martin Wong Collection and chronicles the origins of graffiti and its evolution from a creative outlet—viewed by many at the time as a public nuisance—to an accepted form of art.

Image Credit: Part One, TDS (The Death Squad), 1989, ink on board, 10 × 7 in. Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Martin Wong, 94.114.190.