It was not Cool "Disco" Dan, the graffiti artist whose tag was ubiquitous around the District 30 years ago and whose work formed the centerpiece of the exhibit. It was a former D.C. police officer ...

The graffiti tag “Cool ‘Disco’ Dan” is connotative of all things D.C. during the 1980s and early 1990s—-citywide double-dutch competitions, the politics of then Mayor Marion Barry ...

Cool “Disco” Dan found his work displayed in the Corcoran Gallery of Art for “Pump Me Up,” a tribute to D.C.’s graffiti and go-go culture. It also briefly inspired the name of a doughnut ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A D.C. graffiti artist well-known for tagging various sites across the city in the early 90s has died. Forty-seven-year-old "Cool Disco Dan" died on July 27 after ...

A playing toddler — intended to be a young version of famed D.C. graffiti writer Cool “Disco” Dan — sits at the center, flanked by tags. Also at the center: the word “humanity.” ...

Unless you’ve painted it yourself, have you ever really looked at graffiti? Sure, you may have watched it flick past the window of the Metro, or stopped to gawk for a few seconds while walking ...

If there’s one signature image of D.C. in the 80s and 90s, it’s not a monument or a picture or a symbol. It’s a name: Cool “Disco” Dan. Just like the title of Gastman and co-director ...

Cool “Disco” Dan, is a graffiti artist. He takes you through Washington D.C. in the 1980s through his eyes. He was the most famous person in D.C. in the ’80s other than the President or ...

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