From the ‘Tags’ to Banksy, Passing Through Basquiat: the Street Locked in a Museum

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Demetrius only wanted them to know about his existence. That is why he always carried a marker in his teenage hand, to leave in any corner of New York his pseudonym and the street number where he lived. The name TAKI 183 appeared on the walls, metro stations and on trains throughout the city. With that signature (tag, as it is known in the middle) the graffiti was born as a tool of visibility without artistic pretension. But quickly it became a …