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Martha Cooper Library

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • May 16, 2023
Books in the MCL: Various & Gould. Permanently Improvised

Permanently Improvised. Various & Gould, 2019 The word “improvised” may lead one to believe that street artists create without planning, hoping for a miracle. However, Various & Gould, a Berlin-based street art duo, have a whimsical spirit and embrace unexpected […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • April 21, 2023
Books in the MCL: Martha Cooper, Ninja K & 1UP Crew. One Week with 1UP  

One Week with 1UP. Martha Cooper, Ninja K & 1UP Crew, 2018 “One Week with 1UP” is an adrenaline-fueled ride through Berlin‘s graffiti scene that captures the spirit of rebellion that has been present in this form of art since […]

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

On March 31, the URBAN NATION Museum hosted the second event in the “MCL presents…” series. Titled “Urban Art in the Climate Crisis”, the three artists Sebastian Wandl, Honey and Philip Wallisfurth discussed with the audience about the climate crisis […]

  • Martha Cooper Library
  • April 10, 2023
Books in the MCL: Let Her Be Free. ICY and SOT, 2016

“Let Her Be Free” chronicles the journey of Iranian brothers Icy and Sot as street artists and the evolution of their work over the decade from the mid-2000s to the mid-2010s. The book showcases the brothers’ activism through their art […]

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  • MCL PRESENTS
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  • 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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  • Urban Nation
  • 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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