Wild Style Zine Available

Artist: Wild Style
Title: Wild Style Zine
Medium: Softcover 92 Page Zine
Size: 8.5 x 11 Inches
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $40

 

Released in 1983, Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style is widely regarded as the first authentic hip-hop motion picture, serving as a vital historical document that immortalized the movement before it reached global commercialization. The film’s influence on breakdancing (b-boying) was transformative, as it provided a visual blueprint for the dance’s acrobatic evolution. By featuring real-life pioneers rather than professional actors, it captured the raw energy of South Bronx street culture and exported it to international audiences. This exposure helped spark a worldwide phenomenon, directly inspiring the first generation of breakers in countries like Japan and Germany.

The movie’s impact was driven by its legendary cast of artists and dancers who played versions of themselves. At the center of the breakdancing movement was the Rock Steady Crew, featuring icons like Crazy Legs, Ken Swift, and Frosty Freeze, whose athletic floor moves and headspins became the gold standard for the genre. The narrative follows the journey of protagonist Raymond "Zoro", played by pioneering graffiti artist Lee Quiñones, alongside his love interest Rose, portrayed by the "First Lady of Graffiti," Lady Pink. Other seminal figures included Fab 5 Freddy, who acted as the film's musical and cultural consultant, and the legendary Grandmaster Flash, who showcased his foundational turntablism skills. Together with rap crews like the Cold Crush Brothers and Fantastic Freaks, these artists helped Wild Style define hip-hop as a unified culture of four pillars: MCing, DJing, graffiti, and breaking.

Futura 'Snow Globe' Available

Artist: Futura
Title: Snow Globe
Medium: Glass + Resin on Metal Base
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 Inches
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: $60

Leonard Hilton McGurr, known professionally as Futura, is a foundational figure in the evolution of graffiti into fine art. Rising to prominence in the 1970s New York City subway scene, he distinguished himself through a radical departure from the letter-based styles of his peers. While others focused on elaborate typography, Futura pioneered an abstract aesthetic characterized by ethereal sprays, thin lines, and a sense of cosmic motion. His seminal 1980 work on a subway car, titled Break, serves as a historic milestone for introducing pure abstraction to a medium previously defined by linguistic representation.

His influence extends far beyond the transit tunnels of his youth. Throughout the 1980s, he transitioned into the traditional art world, exhibiting alongside contemporaries such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. His signature style—often featuring floating orbs, crane-like motifs, and sharp, geometric elements—found a natural home in the burgeoning hip-hop and streetwear cultures. He gained further international recognition for his live painting during the Clash’s 1981 European tour, effectively bridging the gap between American street culture and global punk movements.

In the decades since, Futura has become a prolific collaborator with major global brands, applying his distinct visual language to everything from high-fashion apparel to athletic footwear. This commercial success has not diminished his status as an innovator; instead, it has solidified his role as a bridge between the grit of the street and the prestige of contemporary galleries. Today, he remains a vital force in the art world, continuing to explore the intersection of technology, graphic design, and abstract expressionism.

Futura 2000 'MADS' Print Available

Artist: Futura 2000
Title: MADS
Medium: Deckled Lithographic Stone Print
Size: 48 x 55 cm
Edition: 50
Prices: $1,500

 

Leonard Hilton McGurr, known worldwide as Futura 2000, was born in New York City in 1955 and rose from subway tunnels to museum walls. As a teenager he painted rolling steel, but he broke away from letter based graffiti in 1980 by covering an entire subway car with abstract forms and no words, a piece simply titled Break. That act introduced atom shapes, floating orbs and linear bursts that felt like cosmic diagrams, establishing him as the first major abstractionist in street art history. His swift lines, achieved with skinny spray caps, earned comparisons to Kandinsky and gave visual form to the energy of early hip hop. In 1981 he toured with The Clash, painting live backdrops and recording the vinyl manifesto The Escapades of Futura 2000, merging punk rock and aerosol culture.

Gallery shows at Fun Gallery and Tony Shafrazi followed, placing him alongside Basquiat, Haring and Scharf in the vanguard that carried street expression into fine art institutions. Over five decades he has refined his vocabulary while continuing to collaborate across disciplines, designing album sleeves for U.N.K.L.E., customizing Akari lamps for the Noguchi Museum and directing visual campaigns for Virgil Abloh, Nike, BMW and Comme des Garçons. His label Futura Laboratories extends the aesthetic into apparel and objects, proving that the same forms which once animated train cars can inhabit tote bags, sneakers and digital projections. A major retrospective titled Breaking Out is on view at the Bronx Museum through March 2025, tracing an evolution from clandestine metro panels to museum scale installations and testifying to the enduring power of his interstellar mark making.

Futura 2000 'FL-001 Pointman' Sculpture Available

Artist: Futura 2000
Title: FL-001 Pointman GLOW IN THE DARK
Medium: Vinyl Figure
Size: 12 x 3.75 Inches
Edition: LIMITED
Prices: $425

Futura 'AV-003B' Lamp Art Sculpture Available

Artist: Futura
Title: AV-003B
Medium: Plated Painted ABS
Size: 52 x 28 x 20 cm
Edition: 50
Price: $1,800

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Futura + Kenny Scharf 'Untitled' Sculpture Sets Available

Artist: Futura + Kenny Scharf
Title: Untitled Set
Medium: Stainless Steel
Size: UFO 18 x 21.5 x 27 cm • SHIP 14 x 21.5 x 21.5 cm
Edition: 50
Price: ALOT

Futura 'Starstruck' KILLER Print Available

Artist: Futura

Title: Starstruck

Medium: 2 Colour Screen Print
Size: 30 x 30 cm
Edition: Signed
Price: KR$5,000

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'Outside In' - The Story Of Art In The Streets Video Trailer

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Lee Quinones, Abel, Cern, FUTURA, Loomit, Push, RISK + Sano 'Birds Of A Feather' Mural

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Bask Meets Futura

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