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{{byline|last=Birzin|first=Edward|abstract=The mural is about the growth of graffiti in the 1970s and focuses on three participants who helped create graffiti as it has been understood since the publication of Subway Art (1984): Norman Mailer- an investigator of graffiti, Martha | {{byline|last=Birzin|first=Edward|abstract=The mural is about the growth of graffiti in the 1970s and focuses on three participants who helped create graffiti as it has been understood since the publication of Subway Art (1984): Norman Mailer- an investigator of graffiti, Martha Cooper—a photographer of graffiti and JSON and Richie (Seen)—the graffiti writers. | ||
Graffiti is play, it’s Hip and it’s full of imagination. }} | Graffiti is play, it’s Hip and it’s full of imagination. }} | ||
[[File:Birzin-Graffiti.jpg|thumb]] | [[File:Birzin-Graffiti.jpg|thumb|The Crossfit Mural; see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07YyyKScKY drone footage on YouTube].]] | ||
In June 2019, the owners of Crossfit 718 commissioned an original work of art on the side of their building. The mural was painted by the Slavery Collective and is part of their ongoing Subway Art History Project. That project re-imagines the names of famous graffiti writers from the bible of graffiti, ''Subway Art'' (1984), and repaints the greatest graffiti pieces with names and phrases that elicit new meaning and new questions. | In June 2019, the owners of Crossfit 718 commissioned an original work of art on the side of their building. The mural was painted by the Slavery Collective and is part of their ongoing Subway Art History Project. That project re-imagines the names of famous graffiti writers from the bible of graffiti, ''Subway Art'' (1984), and repaints the greatest graffiti pieces with names and phrases that elicit new meaning and new questions. | ||