This is the coolest idea I’ve seen in a while for an Art Museum. The idea is to simply highlight the Graffiti Art of Lisbon, Portugal. The way it works is that you download a free podcast from their website in either Portuguese or English and follow a map around the city to view interesting graffiti [...]
Entries from August 2008
Museum Of Graffiti – Very Creative Concept !!!
August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Artists
Graffiti law targets parents of taggers
August 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Fresh out of the LA Times, here’s an article about holding parents responsible for the children’s tagging. Fine … but I don’t think this will work. Taggers are not tagging as a rebellion against parental oppression. Nothing even remotely like that. More often than not, tagging is associated with street gangs. Handle street gang crimes like crimes [...]
Tags: Legal Controversy
Artists Team Up, Teach Youth To Draw Graffiti
August 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Now here’s a great story out of Minneapolis / St. Paul … The article highlights graffiti as ART versus graffiti as vandalism. Although, I think they mean that it is not vandalism when it is on canvas or paper, but is vandalism when painted on a wall (illegally). Sidenote: Isn’t it ironic that the difference between [...]
Tags: Artists
More Pics of Banksy – from Gawker
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Gawker seems on a mission to expose Banksy. Not sure why they’ve taken this up as a personal mission to uncover arguably the most famous graffiti artist of today. I don’t know of any specific bounty to identify him, but you’d think they’re after some cash … however, more likely they want recognition for being [...]
Tags: Banksy