City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection

City as Canvas: Graffiti Art
from the Martin Wong Collection at 
the Museum of the City of New York
February 4 – August 24, 2014

First Exhibition of the Martin Wong Collection, Featuring 150 Works by
CEY, DAZE, DONDI, FUTURA 2000, Keith Haring, LADY PINK, LEE, TRACY 168, and More New York Graffiti Artists of the 1970s–’80s 

Martin Wong, an East Village artist and collector of graffiti art, amassed a treasure trove of hundreds of works on paper and canvas—in aerosol, ink, and other mediums. The artists, including Keith Haring, Lee Quiñones, LADY PINK, and FUTURA 2000, were seminal figures in an artistic movement that spawned a worldwide phenomenon, altering music, fashion, and popular visual culture. The exhibition City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection includes over 150 works on canvas and other media, along with photographs of graffiti writing long erased from subways and buildings.

Wong, who died of AIDS in 1999, donated his collection to the City Museum in 1994.

 For More info visit www.mcny.org/content/city-canvas