When the street art meets the legal - street art show "pushing" graffiti art?

Few believe that Los Angeles museum of contemporary art is exhibited "street art" exhibition (until) on August 8 will be ended in failure.Named as the "street art" exhibition at the opening of a week to meet the 22000 spectators, broke the week gallery visitors record.At the same time, however, the exhibition also caused a heated debate, namely more and more street art works to the local environment lead to the intervention of the police.As a result of this exhibition will be held in March to brooklyn gallery, others guess similar issues will also be on the east coast.

Los Angeles police department senior official Leroy Neiman said, "we are looking forward to hold an art exhibition, but we also need to protect public property", "at the entrance of small area near Tokyo gallery, we've seen a lot of destruction".MoCA director Jeffrey dyche (Jeffrey Deitch) admitted that "a lot of places with some anarchist slogan, this is young cultural signs, we can not stop, it and the surrounding environment to achieve".

But these claims to a young artist "slogan" as the medium of art is not the main reason for the controversy.There are several important street artists such as Invader, Smear and Jason Williams (often signed Revok) at the beginning of April exhibition had been detained.Revok was arrested because of events related to the graffiti, then was caught to Los Angeles.Revok is accused of causing property losses of $320000, so was eventually sentenced to six months in prison, it is also one of the biggest controversies in this exhibition, artist invited and carry their illicit art gallery exhibition, but because of its street art concept was arrested, the police banned behavior bring turtles in a jar, like to have fun.

It is well known that New York's government in limiting and restricting street art has a set of strategies.Remember in the 1980 s, a large number of stained property, leading to a series of legal measures, even legal provisions, such as in New York City subway have severe graffiti art, New York in July 2010 limit on park street stalls are limited to a certain extent the street art of making a living artist and vendors cause bad influence to the city.At that time there are also some artists have been arrested, but after the "slogan" art and graffiti art is greatly reduced.

Aiming at this phenomenon, the brooklyn museum curator Arnold Lehman (Arnold Lehman), said the New Yorker of Leroy Neiman rocky is no need to worry about the damage caused by street art, because the exhibition is not a push or not to show off graffiti art, "it is a historic exhibition, its purpose is to record the graffiti art, street art movement, and their transition from informal to formal creation. We if its not a kind of respect and responsible attitude, we will not accept the exhibition".

Idolization of artist in the exhibition and easy to be affected by the young people?Jens lehmann has said, "we will keep in touch with them, for each exhibition, we will do with the modern age, a series of interactive projects. For artists, will also have a lot of opportunities under the constraints of the law to freely."