‘Urban streets provide unlimited surfaces to which designs and texts can be applied. The concept of street art embraces the anonymous, often illegal decoration of publicly visible surface and the art market’s commodification of graffiti, beginning with the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1980s New York.’

‘British critic Lawrence Alloway insisted that the future belonged to ‘mass art’ and that ‘mass art is urban and democratic’’.

100 ideas that changed Art, Michael Bird

Joe Caslin, cowgate

Antony Gormley, water of Leith