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| 2011-05-25 |
| Drive behind the Geffen Contemporary, an art museum in downtown Los Angeles, and you will notice that it has painted over the graffiti scrawled on its back wall. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be surprising; the Geffen’s neighbors also maintain constant vigilance against graffiti vandalism. But 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. Graffiti, it turns out, is something that MOCA celebrates only on other people’s property, not on its own. Long, but an interesting read... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #5 Nuts. And to think I came here looking for a radical graffiti chick. |
| Posted by: KBK 2011-05-25 22:10 |
| #4 Bunyip, and your post was truly poetic. But please, some warning the next time, I'm still cleaning coffee splatters from my monitor. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-05-25 11:13 |
| #3 I once saw some naked Australians urinate on an electric fence. The result was "spectacular, perverse, uplifting, and beautifully horrifying". The language that followed was truly artistic. |
| Posted by: Bunyip 2011-05-25 05:18 |
| #2 Damn. I never get invited to these... Not to fear: “transgressive” is still one of the highest compliments that Deitch can bestow. For one of his New York dinner parties, he commissioned a performance piece in which unclothed gay Austrians urinated into one another’s hats while standing on a scaffold above the dinner guests. The work was “spectacular, perverse, uplifting, beautifully horrifying, and deeply transgressive,” Deitch told The New Yorker. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-05-25 01:17 |
| #1 Pathetic, but then we already knew that. You want to know something really scary? Everyone knows I live in a nice mid-sized Chinese city. A couple of new young, foreign residents wondered aloud at the lack of graffiti defacing the city. They said it needed some. Fuckwit hipsters. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-05-25 01:06 |