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...grown in numbers and sophistication, these personae have become less textual and more enigmatic. One of the most well known street art blogs, Streetsy.com, uploads daily photos of street art—postering, stensils, street sculpture, murals, decals, and other work whose merit transcends the pejorative “graffiti?? label—in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Paris, Tokyo and elsewhere. What makes this site more interesting than the ordinary blog is the strange standard for attribution—the artists are anonymous, but even those artists without a consistent alias can be identified...
Perhaps audience response reached its peak when Graffiti??s finale degenerated into an interactive dance party. At that time, performers pulled audience members on to the stage until it became a mess of different groups and individuals, each moving in their own way but still contained by the space and unified by the loud music. For the moment, the Loeb Ex was transformed into its own mini-city, one definitely worth the visit...
...take them and catch up on sleep, I remain standing so I can look out the window easily. The tops of buildings fly by. It always impresses me how many people have made the effort to get onto the roofs to send messages to the train passengers. Graffiti??often large, colorful and elaborate—enliven the tar-covered surfaces of the building tops. “Put the Christ back in Christmas,” reads one framed poster placed atop a roof. It has faced the tracks for as long as I’ve been...
...contrast with those expansive views, Levitt also frequently collapses her depth of focus. Brick walls—blank or covered in graffiti??provide frequent backdrops, and for this reason her pictures could truly be anywhere, but they carry a special connotation because the audience knows it is New York. It begs the question: Were these pictures not taken in New York, would they carry the same emotive force? Given the set of ready associations that the city has in our cultural memory, likely not. However, this is Gotham unlike many have ever witnessed. Levitt?...
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