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Milwaukee Public Schools Cancel Graff Art Class

August 5th, 2010 · No Comments

This is BS.  Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) recently canceled a course they had scheduled on Graffiti Art. Apparently some freakin’ politician (Bob Donovan) saw a pretty bad-ass street art mural if I had to judge and decided that taxpayers shouldn’t be paying to teach students how to do graffiti. Let’s look at this in detail: [...]

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Tags: Legal Controversy

Bold Solution To S.F. Graffiti Problem (?)

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

From the San Fran Chronicle, comes the latest I’ve-Got-A-Great-Idea-To-Stop-Graffiti. The OBVIOUS gap in their plan is as follows:  Get REAL Graffiti Artists with StreetCred to do real pieces so that taggers won’t tag that wall Don’t use REAL Graffiti Artists if they have “been damaging property” … ex. if they have a criminal record. Guess what [...]

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Tags: Legal Controversy

Graffiti Artist Arrested At His Own Art Exhibit

December 15th, 2009 · No Comments

From LAWeekly C’mon … Montana Paints paid him $1k to be there.   My guess is that Montana Paints really paid $1k against his bail.  Check out his work below: ————- ​Graffiti artist Jason Williams, also known as Revok, was arrested at an exhibition of his work at a Mid-City gallery and graffiti-art store Sunday, authorities announced. [...]

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Houston Anti-Graffiti Web-Site

June 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

The City of Houston made a web-site to combat graffiti. One of their recommendations is to create a mural over the graffiti. I like the idea, but isn’t that about the same as allowing legalized graffiti ART? Anyway, like I said, I like the idea. This is from the FAQ’s page: There are four types [...]

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Tags: Legal Controversy

Boys Caught Snickering At Bathroom Graffiti

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

This is amazing news reporting … unfortunately, I don’t think this qualifies as Graffiti Art, or is not related to Graffiti Art Collecting, but maybe, I could find this 5th grader and commission him to make some Art for me to buy. Ha … Great Article!! Boys caught snickering at bathroom graffiti November 24, 2008 [...]

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Tags: Legal Controversy