Swoon in the Streets

When I was living in NYC in the early 1980s, I loved to walk everywhere, because every block of city was permeable to the random affronts of graffiti artists. Along with miles of stylized, spray-painted script, I might come across something by Keith Haring or Jean Michel Basquiat. Neither had quite yet made it huge in the art world, and both were still alive. The Lower East Side is still awash with amazing images steeped in the process of decay, either by passersby or demolition or the weather. But they are made by what we now call "street artists," and my favorite is Swoon.

Over the next few days we'll explore her work.