Over the last decade, the city, like many dense metropolises around the world, has become a paradise of art on the streets, a legacy -- sometimes directly, sometimes in spirit only -- of the graffiti movement that took root in New York in the 1970s and '80s more powerfully than anywhere else, spawning a new American art form.

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