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GREENPOINT | WILLIAMSBURG
VOLUME 47 | NUMBER 33
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
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A space by Bill Barminski resembling a living room.
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Greenpoint Gazette photos by Charlie Innis
Graffiti is all grown up in street art exhibition By Charlie Innis
Special to the Greenpoint Gazette
When he was 14 years old, David “Chino” Villorente spray-painted his name on the A and C train in his neighborhood of Clinton Hill. He said he was doing what all the other kids were doing in Brooklyn in the early ‘80s. They scrawled their names on train cars, tunnels and buildings, committing minor crimes to show the world they had a voice. The world listened. Now, the street and graffiti art movement, which flourished in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s, has a decades-spanning exhibition at 25 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg. continued on page 2
LEFT: “Hollow: Mercilessness of This World,” a collaboration by Takashi Murakami, MADSAKI, TENGAone and snipe1, stands in the exhibition’s final room. RIGHT: The Manhattan skyline forms a backdrop behind paintings by Futura 2000.
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