1720: "The Name That Turned a City into a Canvas"
About this episode
The episode discusses how a teenager's act of writing his name across New York City transformed graffiti into a form of urban art and identity expression.
Interesting Things with JC #1720: "The Name That Turned a City into a Canvas" – A New York City teenager writes the same name across all five boroughs until a newspaper reveals who he is, and within days thousands of others begin creating identities of their own, turning subway trains into moving canvases and pushing graffiti from simple signatures to full-car murals.
People in this episode
Host: JC
Topics covered
- graffiti
- urban art
- identity
- New York City
- youth culture
Keywords
- graffiti
- New York City
- urban art
- teenager
- identity
- subway trains
- murals
Mentioned in this episode
Places: New York City, five boroughs, subway trains
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