Shortly after his arrival in New York in 1979, the Italian-born experimental filmmaker and graphic artist Franco Marinai photographed, among other things, SAMO©- Graffiti that appeared in his 2024 Mah! Magazine in print for the first time. The graffiti signed TM [trademark] forms a new-found subgroup of the SAMO© slogans, in which Diaz and Basquiat saw themselves as an art guerrilla group.
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MAH!© — AHEAD OF THE TEMPEST