NYC Government Cock Blocks Graffiti Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum

Cities are known for a few things: being loud, busy and covered in graffiti. Most of the graffiti is unsightly and relatively predictable—a person’s name, a few expletives and maybe an ugly mushroom or two—but some of it is gorgeous and elaborate.
Graffiti, the good and the bad, ornaments a city’s visage. The process of creating street art is still an underground operation, and while some cities

MOCA’s ‘Art in the Streets’ displays works of graffiti

Graffiti art has moved from the streets and onto an exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles.
Art in the Streets opened on April 17 at the Geffen Contemporary, and includes artworks by 50 world-known artists from the graffiti and street art community (like Fab 5 Freddy from New York, Margaret Kilgallen from San Francisco,