BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has canceled the spring 2012 presentation of Art in the Streets, the first major United States museum exhibition of the history of graffiti and street art. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, wher…
Urban Scrawl: Graffiti and Street Art in Special Sale Presented by artnet Auctions
NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions announced the launch of its new sale, entitled Urban Scrawl: Graffiti and Street Art. This special sale features paintings, collages, prints, and sculpture that outline the origins of the Graffiti movement in New York Cit…
Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is showing the first museum exhibition that joins the work created by Los Angeles graffiti artists for a fine art context with their graffiti art made in the streets. Internationally renowned …
The Pasadena Museum of California Art Hosts "Street Artists from Concrete to Canvas"
Pasadena, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is currently exhibiting the first museum exhibition that joins the work created by Los Angeles graffiti artists for a fine art context with their graffiti art made in the streets. Internat…
"Art in the Streets" on View at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA LA
Los Angeles.- “Art in the Streets” is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. Curated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, the exhibition will trace the development of graffiti …
Graffiti Artist’s Work Lands Him in Museum and Jail
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A graffiti artist whose work went on display this month at a prestigious Los Angeles museum was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Wednesday for practicing the same craft in New York. Angel Ortiz, 44, was arrested three times in Mar…
MOCA Presents Comprehensive Survey Exhibition of Graffiti & Street Art
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum exhibition on the history of graffiti and street art, April 17 through August 8, 2011, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The exhibition trac…
MOCA Presents the First Comprehensive U.S. Museum Survey Exhibition of Graffiti and Street Art
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum exhibition on the history of graffiti and street art, April 17 through August 8, 2011, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The exhibition traces t…
New York Graffiti Art of the 1980s from The Scharpff Collection at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
STUTTGART.- For museums the exchange with private collectors is becoming increasingly important. A new series of exhibitions in the Kunstmuseum aims to make the engagement of these art patrons visible. The first show presents Ute and Rudolf Scharpff, w…
Graffiti Art Brightens War-torn Afghan Capital
By Michelle Nichols
KABUL (REUTERS).- A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolize cleanliness, while further down a factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on war-torn Kabul’s appalling public tra…