There are graffiti writers, there are legends, and then there are the names that defined the culture itself. CES is one of those names. Coming out of New York in the early ‘80s, CES has spent more ...

LISTEN: Ahead of the 2025 Ideas Festival Emory, GPB's Kristi York Wooten interviews Randy Gue, curator and assistant director at Emory University's Rose Library, about the definitions and meaning of ...

ATLANTA — The Atlanta BeltLine is celebrating the influence of style writing. It's a form of graffiti art that came to Atlanta in the 1980s along with the Hip-Hop movement. "It's the visual language," ...

When a broad-edged marker touches a surface, a Chinese character begins to move beyond the familiar order of horizontal and vertical strokes. As a dip pen moves, the line sharply shifts between thick ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Graffiti writing as a common form of ...

Coming out of New York in the early ‘80s, CES argues true graffiti is illegal, warns against chasing social-media likes, and more in this career-spanning interview. September 16, 2026 ...