Cultural Question Answered
June 19th, 2012 - 2:27 pm
Now is the time when we juxtapose, Small Dead Animals-style:
– Headline, Houston Culture Map, January 27, 2011.
– Headline, My Fox Houston, yesterday.
What’s the problem? I thought major museums considered graffiti to be “aerosol art” — though they tend to act rather “unexpectedly” indignant once their own property is threatened.
Growing up in New York and having to ride the subways in the 1970s, I always thought someone should have sent a group of street artists over to Brooklyn Heights to graffiti Norman Mailer’s townhouse to see if he still held them in Jack Henry Abbott-like esteem after that (Rich big city libs in general love street art because they have the money to either live above or afford the transportation options to stay away from its seedier and more dangerous-looking aspects. To people on the Upper West Side or in Hyde Park, being chauffeured past the grimer parts of the city on the way to the airport or the field-level sets at the stadium is like being in a rolling art museum, since they can see it while not really living it).