Word: graffiti
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people who run the Brooklyn Museum have a new retrospective of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and they are doing their best right now to summon the spirit of the '80s. Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27, is the graffiti artist who personified certain dimensions of that decade as completely as his onetime girlfriend Madonna. So on a recent Saturday afternoon, a large area on the museum's fifth floor was given over to break dancers busting out moves. In a corner, a DJ fiddled with his turntable while a crowd of kids watched. A couple of guys...
...Hamburg-bound? What was once a graffiti-covered iron foundry just off the Reeperbahn, the city's notorious red-light district, has been triumphantly transformed into the fashionable East Hotel, tel: (49-40) 30 99 30. Opened three months ago, this 78-room treat is the daring creation of Chicago-based architect Jordan Mozer, who says he was looking to achieve "a contrast between old and new" and "a surreal mixture of East and West." Spaces are draped in luminous floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains, decorated with handmade furnishings and wrought-iron fixtures, and illuminated by candlelight. The Asian accents...
...transformation of Adams basement’s squash courts into the flourishing ArtSpace gallery/studio. Art lovers, however, are welcome to suggest or help plan one of the space’s frequently changing exhibitions (contact Jen Mergel ’98 at jmergel@andover.edu). Adamsians can also indulge their repressed graffiti-artist urges by submitting and painting designs during the annual spring Tunnel Painting of Adams’ basement walls...
Students sprayed graffiti, danced to old school rap songs, and ate soul food during Harvard’s first-ever hip hop festival Friday afternoon, bringing the University’s observance of Black History Month to a close...
...Baltimore, which gets 60,000 calls to 311 each month, the innovation has helped crack systemic problems ranging from potholes to graffiti to snow removal to floodwater. When 2003's Hurricane Isabel hit and calls about submerged streets cascaded into the downtown Baltimore call center, the water department mapped the calls' origins down to the address and then applied maps of the city's storm-water system. Department officials determined which storm drains were clogged and sent crews to clear them. "311 is genius in its simplicity," says Ted O'Keefe, director of Chicago's 311 City Services Center...