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...sabotage in Greenwich will be added to a national bill that is already of staggering proportions-and it is rising steeply every year. No one can fix an accurate price tag on vandalism, which is not always reported, not always identifiable as such and covers everything from toilet graffiti to arson. But the U.S. Office of Education in Washington sets the annual cost of destruction in public schools alone at more than $100 million. In New York City, the cost of school vandalism amounted to an estimated $6,500,000 last year. Public telephones are another prime target; some...
There was a time when graffiti were funny ("Nietzsche is dead -God"), or perceptive ("Even paranoiacs have real enemies"). Nowadays wild splashes of spray paint are in vogue, along with endless repetitions of names and street numbers. A New York adolescent who signs himself Taki 183 is said to be the champion, having defaced hundreds of walls, posters, street signs and subway seats. The New York subway system alone spends $500,000 a year to clean up after Taki and his myriad little friends, and there is no end in sight...
...Philadelphia, where the annual cost of graffiti pollution is now estimated at $4,000,000, the police have organized a 25-man "graffiti squad." Aided by handwriting experts, it has caught and prosecuted 330 offenders, nearly all teenagers. A standard punishment: several hours at hard labor, scouring walls...
Prolific. There are still an estimated 10,000 graffitists on the loose in the City of Brotherly Love, and some people profess to see an aesthetic value in their obsession. "We sense that there is a lot of creativity in these graffiti." says the Philadelphia Art Museum's David Katzive. "Most interesting, the trend is away from profanity and toward simple signatures -a kind of identity thing...
...museum has joined forces with the University of Pennsylvania art department in backing a Graffiti Alternative Workshop. After "recruiting" some prolific vandals, who had been caught in the act, the workshop commissioned several at $2 an hour to candy-stripe a dilapidated transit-authority bus. The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. hired yet another group to decorate the plywood fence surrounding its new Philadelphia office. One graffitist was even paid to paint a mural on the wall of Art Patron Ben Bernstein's town house...