Graffiti
The wild story of Basquiat's original partner in crime
Resurrecting an icon — Al Diaz and Basquiat rewrote the rules of street art before taking different paths: one as a hard-grafting musician, the other as an iconic artist. Both would be ravaged by drugs. Four decades on, the story is far from finished.
Written by: Cian Traynor
Why giant murals of black women are popping up across London
‘You Are Enough’ — Appearing across the walls of the capital, Dreph’s portraits celebrate the humanity, beauty and strength of black British women.
Written by: Dominique Sisley
Shining a light on graffiti's rebel underground
The Grifters Code — From climbing rooftops to outrunning police, Good Guy Boris has taken a world shrouded in secrecy and documented it in style. But now that he's compiled it all in a book, the next challenge awaits.
Written by: Cian Traynor
When graffiti is the only way to survive an urban battleground
A passport across boundaries — In San Salvador, refusing to conform can get you killed. But a wave of rebellious street artists are willing to risk everything in the name of self-expression.
Written by: Danielle Mackey
Shooting the Graffiti Trucks of Paris
Subverting the streets — For his latest zine photographer Marc Vallée took to the streets of Paris late at night, to capture the trucks that parade subversive graffiti throughout the city in an act of reclamation and defiance.
Written by: Dr. Oli Mould
These graffiti pen-pals are using street art to talk politics
Where activism and art overlap — Between London and Chicago, street artists Dont Fret and Edwin are turning their Whatsapp exchanges into pointed political displays scrawled across each other's cities.
Written by: Marta Bausells
Martha Cooper: The photographer who introduced graffiti to the world
Creative Decay — Martha Cooper’s photographs of New York graffiti in the seventies and eighties helped catapult hip hop around the globe. When Huck met Martha in 2007, she showed us the kids that first took her underground.
Written by: Andrea Kurland
Celebrating female graffiti artists around the world
Girl Power — Taking a stand against prejudice, being a woman, travelling around the world, spraying her name and not getting caught; Girl Power is an autobiographical film about Sany, a Czech graffiti artist, and a celebration of other female street artists from around the globe.
Written by: Michael Segalov
Vandals and the City: Documenting London's underground graffiti scene
Writing on the wall — Over a period of twelve months, documentary photographer Marc Vallée tagged along with one of London's graffiti crews, silently painting the city in defiance of the law. Before the launch and exhibition of Marc's self-published zine in Berlin this month, Oliver Zanetti explores the politics of art in the city.
Written by: Oliver Zanetti
The graffiti accounts you need to follow on Instagram
Tag the globe — In honour of Utah & Ether, the Bonnie and Clyde of graffiti, who broke probation to go on a worldwide tagging spree, here’s our pick of the best graffiti Instagram accounts.
Written by: HUCK HQ