Hall Of Fame – New York City

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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 East
Harlem 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 the city 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.