"One new exhibition chronicles the origins and development of a type of art for which the city has become known: graffiti and street art. It's at Miami's Museum of Graffiti, which bills itself as the first museum in the world dedicated to graffiti and street art. The museum is located in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, an art-forward community where large, colorful murals adorn the exteriors of almost every building."
"Inside the museum, one of the first exhibits isn't of art, but of an artist's medium in this case, cans of Rust-oleum spray paint. Museum founder and curator Alan Ket picks up a special can. "This is a Cascade green Rust-oleum paint," he says. "This one is from 1973." Today, collectors will pay $1,000 for a vintage can. It's a color, Ket says, prized by graffiti artists."
"One of those teenagers, now 61 years old, is Jon Perello, an artist who goes by the name JonOne. His painting has covered an Air France jet and been featured on a Hennessey cognac label. He lives in France now, but began, nearly 50 years ago, as a teenager tagging buildings and subways in New York. "I didn't have no money, so I was stealing all my spray paint," he says. "That was the first grant, I would say.""
Art Basel and satellite shows bring a surge of art activity to South Florida, and Miami's Museum of Graffiti presents the origins and development of graffiti and street art. The museum displays tools of the trade, including vintage Rust-oleum spray cans such as a Cascade green from 1973 prized by collectors and artists. Alan Ket founded the Museum of Graffiti six years ago to document a movement that began with teenagers tagging New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Jon Perello, known as JonOne, began tagging in Washington Heights, later painted New York subways, and now works internationally on commissions including an Air France jet and a cognac label.
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