Forty-five years later, SAMO© still matters. So does an accurate retelling of the story. That’s a big part of why Al Diaz chose to resuscitate graffiti art’s most famous byline in 2016. That, and his ...
Just when it seems like the Basquiat-bonanza has run out of steam, the “same old shit” that inspired the artist’s original graffiti tag is making a comeback. In the late 1970s, high school friends ...
Big city graffiti peaked in the early ’70s, somewhere between the NYC Transit Authority’s decision to sic killer dogs on the vandals and visigoths, and the media hoopla that greeted the first ...
When teenage graffiti artists and high school classmates Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz began to tag SAMO© on buildings throughout Lower Manhattan in the late 1970s, the pair set off a ripple effect ...
SAMO ŠALAMON is "one of the most talented and interesting young guitarists and composers to emerge on today's jazz scene" (AllAboutJazz), being selected by the magazine Guitar Player as one of the ...
The documentary photographer Dona Ann McAdams discovered this SAMO tag in the elevator shaft of 53–55 South 11th Street, a former factory where she had a loft, around 1979. Photo: Dona Ann McAdams The ...
Diaz, now 66, is the other half of one of the most influential creative partnerships in downtown New York history—the graffiti duo that became the launchpad for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s meteoric rise to ...
Newcastle may have to brace themselves for an ugly tug-of-war over Radike Samo after the Australian Rugby Union confirmed today they want to persuade him against completing his move to the English ...
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