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In the early 1990's freight trains coming out of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and LA were traveling with graffiti and were being spotted in cities and towns across the country. The film Benching: The Art of Watching Trains explores how this subculture, Benching, transitioned from subway platform's to random freight benches across the country.
Dec. 9, 2007. BEGINNING in the 1970s, city kids swept up in the new trend of scribbling graffiti on the outside of subway cars gathered on a bench in the 149th Street-Grand Concourse...
14 gru 2012 · Mr. Chalfant didn’t meet any actual graffiti writers until 1979, when someone told him about the Writer’s Bench, inside the lower level of the 149th Street and Grand Concourse station. Though...
Documentation of New York City subway graffiti history. Featuring graffiti artist biographies, interviews and artwork.
It’s 1982 and the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx is teeming with teenagers scribbling in notebooks. They call themselves writers but they are really artists working across...
FAB 5 FREDDY: By the late 1970s, every square inch of practically every subway train in New York City, almost every station, was completely blitzed with graffiti—along with buses, trucks, walls. At this time, I was also following the developing punk and New Wave movements and the excitement around bands like the Clash and the Sex Pistols in ...
4 lis 2014 · Originally aired on PBS, Style Wars illuminates New York subway spraying at its early-'80s apex. It's a drama in which teenagers defy the Koch administration, their parents, and sometimes each...
