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• JG commented on Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery
  Simply put; graffiti is an ART form. Where it is placed determines its legality....
• Piper commented on Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery
  JODY: Get over yourself. The curator of this show should be commended for bringing modern street culture into this previously very conservative environment. Have you ever visited the National Portrait Gallery? It's not exactly a mecca for street culture, it's mostly rooms full of relatively staid portraiture, so this is very different. Is it true graffiti? No, not if it was made for a gallery, then it becomes Art. But that doesn't mean it has somehow lost value or meaning. I saw this show and really enjoyed it, and I could care less about whether the graffiti artists have...
• jody commented on Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery
  The curator of this show should be commended for bringing modern street culture into this previously very conservative environment. Except for the fact that he's brought in one tiny slice of the gigantic pie. That's maybe cool for a local gallery or coffee shop show, but a national gallery should be representing on a national level, imo. Arek and Con may be nationally-known graffiti writers, but they are in no way Basquiats, Warhols or Pollacks of graffiti art. that doesn't mean it has somehow lost value or meaning. I'm not saying it lacks meaning, but I can't agree it has...
• Born Angry commented on Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery
  Not to throw more dirt, but they've only been active since 2000, or maybe a few years before that. When I moved to Oakland/Berkeley in 1987, that shit was in full swing, and at least at the same level these guys are at. My point is that there's a whole lot more to the graffiti culture than a couple guys who get up in the D.C. area, and this particular exhibit seemingly ignores that. WRONG.....Arek stared graf in 1986 with the help of Jase Ba......He painted up until 2004 then stopped until December of 2000.....It's now 2008 do the math....It's...
• Born Angry commented on Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery
  correction Con started in 1993..... The graff world is huge to properly rep it would be very difficult.That's the beauty with art.... 'It's in the eye of the beholder" !!!!...