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Talking (not Tackling) Street Art at Housepaint.
Mar 27/09 -Toronto -What is the definition of vandalism with regard to street art and graffiti? What is the municipal policy and possible penalties for street artists? As street artists become more enmeshed with the art world, how do they maintain their street credibility? How is street art different from tagging and vandalism? Is street art simply a short cut into the art establishment? These important questions were the full nelsons of the Wednesday night throw down I attended - between artists and establishment at the ROM's Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre as part of their current exhibition, Housepaint.
Save legal graffiti walls.
May 21/07 - Ottawa - The city is considering phasing out legal graffiti walls. That would make Ottawa duller, greyer and no less vulnerable to vandalism.
globeandmail.com: Graffiti warfare: the view from the trenches.
March 23/09 - New York - I've never been to a mobster's funeral, but I imagine it would be something like what unfolded the other night at the powerHouse Arena bookstore and gallery space in Brooklyn. As hundreds of people shuffled into the cavernous DUMBO space, a stone-faced plainclothes cop stood on the opposite side of Main Street, his video camera trained on the entrance to capture on tape all who went in and out. "Do you fish?" a cop later explained. "You go where the fish are."
novanewsnow.com > Police > Good kids gone bad - Part 7 (final).
Nov 21/07 - Windsor Nova Scotia - Windsor has two new pieces of urban art after local youth spray-painted murals - by invitation. The works are mounted on the side of Dooley’s on Gerrish Street. Running the workshop was Halifax-based graffiti artist Theo Gardner.
novanewsnow.com > County of Hants > Graffiti can be a positive in Windsor.
August 13/07 - Windsor N.S -The Windsor Recreation Department invited local youth to participate in a free graffiti art workshop Aug. 9-10 with the final project showing off a spray-painted mural to the town. The artwork created was a large graffiti piece commemorating community recreation within the Town of Windsor and it was decided the finished mural should be hung outside Dooley’s on Gerrish Street.
Montana's News Station - Fair. Accurate. To the Point. -Billings council looking at graffiti.
Jan 6/09 - Billings Montana -One of the items on the agenda is revising a letter sent by the city's code enforcement division to notify home-owners and businesses about graffiti. The new letter acknowledges graffiti as "un-welcomed" act, and identified people who experience graffiti as victims.
