‘Instagram killed the graffiti star’ as rich kids take their art online

Graffiti is gradually disappearing from Britain's city streets as young men switch to using the internet to make a name for themselves as sub-cultural artists, new research says. The British Sociological Association's annual conference in Manchester heard today [Wednesday 5 April] that as a result of the move to sharing work on social media, "the rich kids of Instagram have killed the graffiti writer".

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