Michael Stewart (graffiti artist) received recognition after his death following an arrest by NYC Transit Police for spray-painting graffiti on a subway station wall. Stewart was seen writing graffiti on a wall of First Avenue Station in Manhattan at 2:50 AM on September 15th, 1983. He died at age 25, on September 28th 1983 due to physical injury to the spinal cord in the upper neck. Jean Michel Basquiat created Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) as a tribute.
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