As Street Art Goes Commercial, a Resistance Raises a Real Stink
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/arts/design/28stin.html
Yesterday I was walking around williamsburg and I saw a banksy wheatpaste had been hit with a couple of colorful paint filled balloons. This particular piece is quite well known and I coulnd't believe it had been destroyed by someone else. Later that month I saw this article in the times and I guess this person or group has been defacing now commercialized street artists work all over the city. I am not a streeet artist, but an artist. However i don't know exactly the code of conduct in the graffiti world. On one hand it seems fair that these people are doing this. Hell maybe Banksy did it himself. Their has always been an opinion in public interventions that they are temporary and not supposed to be conserved. However now these graffiti artists have gotten the respect of museums and art institutions and art viewers across the world. Does this change the role of street art. For me street art has always been about making your territory and giving it to the man. Thats definately what this defacer is doing. In the times article the NYC police dep. did arrest someone, but i feel its lets about that person and more about an opinion people have about the role of street art in todays society. I don't think it needed to be taken to the point of physical bombing of galleries, but I do think that things like this keep art fresh and keeps making people re-think arts role, which expands everyday.
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