Street-inspired Art at the ICA Boston

STREET LEVEL: Mark Bradford, William Cordova & Robin Rhode. Now through 13 July 2008 at the ICA. Pictured: "Wholesellers, Retailers & Bullshitters" (detail), 2005. Ink, graphite, gold leaf on paper, William Cordova's painting of a graffitied delivery truck, an appropriation of urban imagery.

"Fly on the Wall" - graffiti film in IFFBoston

From the press release: "The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University (CDIA) will be showcasing a selection of the year's best student films to emerge from its Digital Filmmaking Program in the Independent Film Festival of Boston on Saturday, April 26, 11:30 a.m. at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Somerville, MA."

""Fly on the Wall" chronicles the lives of underground graffiti artists."

And Now a Famous Graffiti Artist Buys Billboard Space

The world is about to end...

(or at least they're ruining it for the kids)

priggishness or preserving the revolution?

A fashion blogger laments the appropriation of graffiti styles into mainstream graphic design . . .

while two art critics in Washington D.C. argue about graffiti's place in the gallery.

The Graffiti Creator

Go to The Graffiti Creator to make your own 'graffiti styled' texts.

First, the Graffiti Research Lab, now this. It's artificial or 'virtual' graffiti. If there was a program out there that created Monet or Renoir-esque images out of bad drawings, I doubt it would change French Impressionism's position in the art world, but graffiti doesn't have that advantage.

Vista, CA has a $240k anti-graf budget.

It's springtime - the kids are out and so are the power washers...

graffiti in the gallery - complete with Magritte reference

This is not graffiti?

Perhaps not if it's in the gallery, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. According to Pixnit, "Defining graffiti solely by its illegality cripples its artistic value."

Maybe that's what graffiti needs - more appreciation as a fine art and to be in galleries. Who knows, maybe in a decade or so, white people will start to like it.