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ART REVIEW: Rochester Contemporary's "State of the City" - Art - Rochester City Newspaper

ART REVIEW: Rochester Contemporary's "State of the City" - Art - Rochester City Newspaper.

Aug 14/09 - Somewhere along the line, someone insinuated that graffiti was simply vandalism, the sign of a declining, violent neighborhood, and many people mistook it for the truth. We too often succumb to the urge to simplify the world along distinctly black and white lines. But that's idiotic. It's neither fair nor wise to make quick assumptions about a topic and drop it. Your gray matter can handle the grayscale, and all of the beautifully complex colors in the spectrum, too.

Panorama of legal graffiti wall, Shore St West, Cleveland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 080916 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Panorama of legal graffiti wall, Shore St West, Cleveland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 080916 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!.

Great looking legal wall. More images here.

Art or vandalism? Neighbors petition against graffiti mural - Gloucester, MA - Wicked Local Gloucester

Art or vandalism? Neighbors petition against graffiti mural - Gloucester, MA - Wicked Local Gloucester.

Aug 21/09 - Salem Mass. - For a teenager who was arrested two years ago for tagging graffiti around the North Shore, it seemed a strange request. Just three weeks before his 18th birthday, Max Hill was approached by the same Salem police officers who’d earlier charged him with vandalism for leaving graffiti on railroad cars, mailboxes and buildings. And now, they were asking him to paint a mural near Salem’s Bridge Street bypass road. “I didn’t believe them,” the tall, green-eyed Marblehead teenager recalled in a recent interview. “I thought it was funny that the cops that arrested me would let me do a mural and put my tag right there in everybody’s face.” The mural, a kind of welcome sign painted on the March Street Bridge near the Carlton School, bears the word “Salem” in large letters, framed on one side by the words “City of” and on the other side, “The Witch City.” Painted in bold graffiti-style red, black and orange lettering, it also contains his graffiti moniker, Theory. The reasoning behind it, according to police, is twofold. One is to reward Hill, who just finished two years of community service, by “letting him show his ability in a positive way,”

Hudson Reporter - Murally beneficial Two groups vie to create large scale art across city

Hudson Reporter - Murally beneficial Two groups vie to create large scale art across city.

Aug 23/09 - Jersey City, NJ - Playful, almost hallucinogenic images of hairy monsters and a skateboarding boy cover the wall on the side of the Hudson County Art Supply building on Coles Street in downtown Jersey City. They’re part of a mural by noted artist and Jersey City resident Ron English and West Coast artists Bigfoot and Jason Maloney. The mural was painted back in March during a nine-hour session. The collaborative effort was the brainchild of another Jersey City resident, Dylan Evans, an art curator and photographer who launched his new organization, tentatively named Mural Arts Program for Jersey City, with that mural.

Bed Ridden ALS Patient Graffiti Tags L.A. Walls Virtually at Night - LAist

Bed Ridden ALS Patient Graffiti Tags L.A. Walls Virtually at Night - LAist.

Aug 25/09 - LA - Can an ALS patient in a hospital bed create graffiti along the 10 freeway? Yes, yes one can through some hardcore programming, the movement of the patient's eyes and some really amazing creativity.

Los Angeles - LA Daily - Trutanich's Anti-Graffiti Injunction Draws Fire

Los Angeles - LA Daily - Trutanich's Anti-Graffiti Injunction Draws Fire.

Aug 25 - The response to L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's proposal, reported in yesterday's L.A. Times, to criminalize the mere gathering of members of graffiti-tagging crews has not been pretty. Graffiti is one of those quality of life issues that people can point to when explaining why Los Angeles is firmly strapped into a hellbound handbasket. To most people of a certain age graffiti is ugly and they can remember a time when it wasn't around -- or at least, wasn't as omnipresent as it is today. But there are other, similar issues that would probably garner more attention if they were as visible as tags: homelessness, drug addiction and the unavailability of health care to large numbers of Americans.