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Martha Cooper Library

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  • MCL PRESENTS
  • March 13, 2023
MCL PRESENTS #2 “URBAN ART IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS”

A discussion with the artists Sebastian Wandl, Honey & Philip Wallisfurth 31.03.2023, 18:00 until 20:00Admission 17:30 URBAN NATIONBülowstr. 710783 Berlin Climate change is one of the central challenges of our time. Not only are social and economic consequences already being […]

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  • March 11, 2023
Happy Birthday Martha Cooper!

With her documentation of the New York graffiti and hip-hop scene of the 1970s and 1980s, she helped the art form achieve worldwide fame. Her book “Subway Art”, written in collaboration with Henry Chalfant, was one of the first books […]

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  • December 14, 2022
Books in the MCL: Spray Nation. 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs. Martha Cooper 2022

A generous collection of newly unearthed photographs documenting New York’s golden graffiti age from one of the celebrated visual documentarians, Spray Nation expands the conversations discussing the so-called ‘birth of graffiti’ for five decades. With hundreds of pages of newly […]

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  • Urban Nation
  • December 8, 2022
Books in the MCL: BANKSY IN NEW YORK. Ray Mock. 2019

For 31 days in October of 2013, UK street artist Banksy “gifted” New York City with daily new surprises on the streets in all five boroughs – effectively involving citizens in his self-designed residency. It is traditional for graffiti writers […]

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  • November 28, 2022
Books in the MCL: SPRAYCAN ART. Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff. 1987.

The legendary SUBWAY ART illustrated book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant was the first to summarise graffiti writing, documenting the initial simple name-writing and the subsequent development of the motifs into masterpieces on the New York subway. Alongside films […]

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  • September 13, 2022
BOOKS IN THE MCL: EINE STADT WIRD BUNT. Hamburg Graffiti History. 2021

Preparing the graffiti history of a city is a major project. Although the first graffiti in the style of the New York model appeared in many major European cities in the early 1980s, they were only sparsely documented, if at […]

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  • Urban Nation
  • August 24, 2022
REDESIGNED READING ROOM OF THE MARTHA COOPER LIBRARY

You can find our reading room in the first floor (on the level of the gallery) it is open Tuesday 10:00 am – 3:00pm and Thursday von 12:00 am bis 3:30pm We used the closing time for the museum renovation to […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • August 1, 2022
BOOKS IN THE MCL:  SUBWAY ART. Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant. 1984.

Martha Cooper was the first female staff photographer for the New York Post, capturing everyday situations on the streets of the metropolis for the daily newspaper since the mid-1970s. In 1979, while photographing children playing in the Bronx, she noticed […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • Urban Nation
  • July 11, 2022
BOOKS IN THE MCL: SPRAY CITY – GRAFFITI IN BERLIN 1994

In spring 1994, the exhibition SPRAY CITY – GRAFFITI IN BERLIN took place within the framework of the “X 94 – Young Art and Culture” festival of the Akademie der Künste. The book of the same name was published by […]

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  • Urban Nation
  • June 28, 2022
Books in the MCL: Gusmano Cesaretti. STREET WRITERS. A Guided Tour of Chicano Graffiti.

STREET WRITERS. A Guided Tour of Chicano Graffiti. Gusmano Cesaretti. 1975. The roots of the global graffiti movement lie in New York in the late 1960s. Over the years, the simple lettering first developed into simple, quick pieces and, by […]

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