
NYCNew York is the capital of street graphics - a creative kaleidoscope of urban ephmera in the form of signs, graffiti, murals and advertising. Its innovative ideas, styles and mediums quickly become international trends. Street Graphics New York captures the rich visual patina of the city's cultural diversity - jazz age elegance, brash Sixties Pop Art, hip-hop graffiti, anarchic stencil and sticker art.

Ivan Konstantinovitch Aivazovsky, Golf of neapel,1841
© The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, St. Petersburg, 2010 (detail)