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Winthrop and Mather Houses have been the victims of homophobic graffiti five times in the past two weeks, and in strongly worded letters, House Masters have promised to do their best to find the culprits...
...Mather House this Tuesday, resident tutor K. Kyriell Muhammad found homophobic graffiti posted on a message pad near his door. Two weeks earlier, a picture of the tutor dressed in a gown with the words "BGLTS Safe Zone" was removed from his door. Several days later, posters advertising the House's Queer Film Series--organized by Muhammad--were defaced...
...Oppenheim sees it, one of the best parts of the Trustman exhibit is that it raises these questions; "You're not asking, is graffiti art. You're asking, what is art?" It's true that this most unconventional (and original) of art forms forces us to reconsider what it is we value in visual art. If we need to argue over whether spray paint on a wall has the same merits as watercolor on a canvas, then we need to argue about art's very definition. And what is the definition? Is everything that is a visual form of expression...
...show that would be very difficult to imagine at Harvard. Luckily Simmons College was willing to take a chance on art that many people consider questionable at best. An exhibition like this performs a powerful service, rivaling the influence of a whole museum full of galleries. We see that graffiti does not simply alter the commonly accepted definition of art; rather, it shows how incomplete or impossible that definition...
...Josh Oppenheim's paper suggests that today's graffiti is a return to the purest form of artistic expression--sketches and scribbles on cave walls. Oppenheim's paper quotes a graffiti artist who claims that "the art on the streets are the real life galleries." The most basic expression of anger and pride may well come from the streets, but can the rest of us understand them? The paper also quotes ethnologist Robert Colombo as saying, "After reading kilometers of walls one realizes that, whatever its meaning, here is what it means to be human." Can we look past...