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MOCA @ THE GEFFEN, Down Town Los Angeles
I can’t even begin to explain how important I feel that this exhibition is. The first major museum to acknowledge street art and the graffiti movement as a major art movement. To me this installation establishes a precedent of the art movements to come. The people involved in this exhibition have all been a part of an underground “street art” culture linked deeply to hip-hop, punk rock, skate boarding, gang banging, and tattooing. For the majority of these artists graffiti has been a taboo subculture for them. For the people in my generation we were more or less raised acknowledging graffiti and street art as a legitimate art form. 50% of the people at my high school had a tag name. We are the graffiti generation and soon we are all going to be involved in a post-graffiti movement of some kind that is far beyond what I could possibly envision at this point. Keep the movement moving. Keep fucking shit up.
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