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is the only art that asks permission from no one and apology from everyone.
means Words or images drawn, scratched, or sprayed onto a surface in a public place, usually without permission.
from From Italian "graffiti," the plural of "graffito" — a little scratch or scribble — which traces back to the verb "graffiare," to scratch. That in turn climbs down to Greek "graphein," to write or draw, the same root that gives us "graph" and "-graphy." Archaeologists borrowed the Italian word in the 19th century for the casual scratched messages they found on ancient walls, like the ones surviving at Pompeii — proof that bored, lovestruck, and rude humans have been writing on walls for a very long time. Strictly, one mark is a "graffito"; the plural "graffiti" has simply taken over.
- ancient habit
- Pompeii's walls are covered in 2,000-year-old scrawls
- banksy economics
- one piece shredded itself, then doubled in value
- word origin
- from Italian graffiato, meaning scratched
- chemical war
- cities spend billions yearly scrubbing it off
- subway empire
- 1970s New York trains became rolling galleries
banksy's girl with balloon — iconic stencil first appeared on waterloo bridge, london in 2002, sold for $1.4m in 2021