… beginning in April, the Geffen—a satellite of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art—will host what MOCA proudly bills as America’s first major museum survey of “street art,” a euphemism for graffiti.
… beginning in April, the Geffen—a satellite of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art—will host what MOCA proudly bills as America’s first major museum survey of “street art,” a euphemism for graffiti.
Does this mean that fine art affixed to the outside of the building would be considered a crime?!
Robert: How do you define fine art? Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ?
I believe the property owner should have say over what he does not want displayed.
WalterF: There’s some gorgeous graffiti in Saskatoon, by permission of the owner, and the city and others tried to force it to be painted over.
The owner can ban whatever he wants. But very rarely is a property owner allowed to display anything he wants. Community standards, influence on adjoining property values, etc.
Graffiti is nothing more than Alpha’s marking out territory, it’s unchanging and lacks any real originality.
Norman Mailer; was there any urban psychopathy that self-reagarding old ham didn’t get off on? I mean, other than anything which might have had a negative effect on his own life, obviously.
Walter, I think you missed the point of my juxtaposition joke entirely.
The people caught doing it should be given community service for 6 months cleaning it up and bylaws should be passed not allowing paint to be sold to anybody under 18.
Real artists purchase their own canvass, graffiti is just another form of vandelism by bored kids.
it’s unchanging and lacks any real originality.
Posted by: the bear at April 20, 2011 12:39 AM
A lot of art can be described that way. Most art follows trends.
I actually like some graffiti, as long as it’s appropriate for the area. It doesn’t belong on historical buildings, churches, or business centers, but seems appropriate for bare concrete. Calgary spends a fortune removing graffiti from its skateboard park. That just seems odd.
Thanks Robert. I should have split my comment in two and winked after the first part. 😉
MOCA celebrates only on other people’s property, not on its own. Good grief!
You should see some of the graffiti on the train cars that come in from the Chicago area – very well done.
coach – graffiti hasn’t changed in 40 years. No evolution what so ever. Just a bunch of spray bombed words by teenagers with nothing better to do than claim territory in between drive by’s.
I got to the part of the article that started to discuss the affable ‘Earsnot’ and gave up. I hope they’re all using non-anti-establishment home brewed ‘green’ paint…