ARTINFO: ‘Art In The Streets’: The Real History Behind MOCA’s Contentious Blockbuster
Los Angeles MOCA’s blockbuster “Art in the Streets” show has churned out one controversy after another, from the uproar over the whitewashing of Blu’s antiwar mural last year and the concerns that the exhibition is embalming street art to the hand-wringing over copycat graffiti inspired by the show and the L.A. police department’s stepped-up offensive against working street artists that has accompanied it. None of these issues should be particularly shocking. What is shocking is that the organizers of a show about graffiti history art would be caught so flatfooted by them.
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