Collection: Graffiti & Street Art

Publications, magazines, and printed matter documenting graffiti and street art practice, from the New York subway writing of the 1970s and 1980s through the global expansion of street art in the 1990s and 2000s. The objects collected here move between documentation, distribution, and participation: zines, fanzines, exhibition catalogues, artist books, and magazines that carried the visual language of the street into print.

Street art and graffiti have generated a substantial body of printed matter — often cheaply produced, widely circulated, and now scarce — that sits between subcultural document and art object. These publications are collected here as printed supports for a practice that was always already about reproduction, circulation, and the occupation of public surface.