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Photos from Boone Avenue Walls 2023
This August, over 100 artists were invited to the 9th annual Boone Avenue Walls Arts Festival with the event culminating on August 26 & 27, 2023. Curated by Wen Cod, the invited artists included some of the best muralists and style masters in the world. Photos by Kurt Boone.
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Phillips Gallery – Never Above 14 Street: A Downtown NYC Art Show
“Never Above 14 Street” at Phillips Gallery presented original works of art mostly from 1980’s but a few from 1990’s by artists Lady Pink, Seen, Crash, Futura 2000, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mike Bidlo, Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, David McDermott and Peter McGough, Dondi White and Linus Coraggio.
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Wood You March: Plywood as Canvas
Renowned NYC graffiti artist Optimo NYC curated an exhibition of plywood boards painted on retail storefronts in 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement at Sun Art NYC gallery in Brooklyn. In addition to plywood boards from 2020, the show displayed other works of art on wood at the opening reception on 3/8/2023. Check out Kurt Boone’s photo recap of the event!
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UP Magazine’s 2022 Editors’ Choice List
Here at UP, we chase the wildest, strangest, and most heart-filled stories out there, but there were a few that stuck out to us this year. Enjoy reading our Editor’s Choice Articles of 2022!
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Press Release: MARTINEZ GALLERY CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF UGA
Hugo Martinez, the director of Martinez Gallery in Harlem, New York and founder of United Graffiti Artists celebrated it’s 50th years since it’s first Graffiti Arts exhibition in 1972.
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Up in the Bronx: The Boone Avenue Walls
Kurt Boone photographs New York legends and local wall writers alike gathered on the Bronx’s Boone Avenue to electrify the walls with their tags and messages.
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Press Release: AUTHOR GARY WEISS DISCUSSES “RETAIL GANGSTER” WITH KURT BOONE
nvestigative journalist and author Gary Weiss discusses his newly released “Retail Gangster: The Insane Real-Life Story of CRAZY EDDIE” (Hachette Books – August 2022) with writer / urban street culture chronicler Kurt Boone at the Village Works Gallery and Bookstore in Manhattan on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 7:00pm.
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UP5 Preview – Artists in their Element – Miami Art Week 2021
Photo gallery preview of Kurt Boone’s “WIP” photographs for Issue 5.
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Remembering Phase 2 Through His Final Writings
Phase 2 (Michael Lawrence Marrow) was an early innovator of the Aerosol Art movement, as well as a prominent writer in 1970’s subway writing era and impresario of hip hop culture. After his passing in 2019, he left behind Prafodivi, an eclectic collection of writing about his experiences.
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Press Release: KURT BOONE HOLDS ARTISTS TALKS FOR JERSEY CITY MURAL FESTIVAL
Author / photographer / Kurt Boone has announced two March 2022 artist talks in conjunction with his “Photographs of Jersey City Mural Festival“ exhibition now on display at the Commuter Gallery located at the Journal Square PATH station in New Jersey.
