Word: graffiti
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...push a hamper up a dirtied urban avenue. Despite the squalor of the surroundings, their impish smiles and doubled-over laughter show that the activity is more of a game than a chore. In a careful composition, the children’s clothes pick up colors in the graffiti and painted residences in the background, suggesting a unity with their surroundings and an ability to revel even in less-than-pristine circumstances...
...Graffiti adorns cement walls of some industrial buildings and grassy alleys between apartment complexes. Laundry hangs on fire escape balconies overlooking the parking lot of a mom-and-pop grocery store...
...postwar years. (Faurer's personal archives were messy; we are sure only that the picture was taken sometime between 1949 and 1952.) The nominal subject is a boy turning away from the site of a car accident. At the center of the image is a bit of morbid official graffiti--a chalk outline of the victim's body that is unmistakably phallic, so that love and death are strangely and also childishly intertwined. The boy hugs himself in a gesture that may or may not be dread. His expression is soft and distracted, as though he is thinking over...
When the Nazis occupied the city, the party was over. The grim mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this...
...antigraft court, the Sandiganbayan, which he decries as "a waste of money. The cars, the helicopters, the riot squad, it costs too much." But he has no choice as he presses himself into a black, bulletproof Toyota Land Cruiser with his lawyers. On Commonwealth Avenue his jeep passes graffiti sprayed on the meridian: FREE ERAP, POLITICAL PRISONER; and then swings into the guarded parking lot behind the building...