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The birthplace of the style writing school of graffiti is New York City. This is the place where young writers first began to transform letters from simple tags on a wall to elaborate masterpieces of colorful and camoflauged letters embellished with characters that depicted friends and heroes alike. By the 1980s the artwork was quickly destroyed by authorities and the artists seeking to preserve some of their works took hold of schoolyards around the city to paint grander works. It was a no-nonsense approach to save their art form and spread their fame to the local kids. The most famous of these schoolyards is located in EastHarlem on 106th street and Park Avenue and it became known as the Hall of Fame. At first the Hall of Fame was established to bring together the best artists in the city and have them paint in the same schoolyard supplanting the number 5 train as the showcase place for the best graffiti art in New York. Over the years as the word spread artists from around thecity would sneak in and leave their work at night in this unsanctioned museum. Join us on this artistic retrospective of the famous and important New York landmark.
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The birthplace of the style writing school of graffiti is New York City. This is the place where young writers first began to transform letters from simple tags on a wall to elaborate masterpieces of colourful and camoflauged letters embellished with characters that depicted friends and heroes alike. The most famous of these schoolyards is located in East Harlem on 106th street and Park Avenue: it became known as the Hall of Fame. This colourful title is an artistic retrospective of that famous and important New York landmark.
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Alain "KET" Maridueña grew up between Jackson Heights, Miami and Brooklyn. His parents are both immigrants from Latin America. While studying at New York University, he founded 'Stress', a publication celebrating urban communities, Hip Hop culture and educating youth about their rights. Alains activism continued with the creation of programs for inmates in the Rikers Island Prison and the co-founding of the collective Black August. He co-founded Complex magazine with Marc Ecko, and joined From Here To Fame publishing, in order to preserve Hip Hops rich history. He also works as a consultant for urban culture industry. So Alain "KET" Maridueña is a publisher, writer, Hip Hop historian, activist and graffiti artist.
