I don't know of this counts but there's a show here in NYC of Barry McGee
aka Twist, a fairly well known west coast tagger. It was really cool
stuff, I think the show is travelling nationwide. I would call that
genuine recognition...
peace
Nate
On Fri, 7 May 1999, david turgeon wrote:
quoted 14 lines & then pop stars like 3d (whatever his skills may be) get in museums for
>
> > > & then pop stars like 3d (whatever his skills may be) get in museums for
> > > face value, mostly. i have yet to hear of a genuine graffiti artist get
> > > that kind of recognition.
> > you can kind of count jean-michel basquiat in there.
>
> perhaps, but that was a while ago. many graffitis have been done since
> then, & i'm sure better ones. though, thinking back, perhaps they look
> a hell lot better on the streets than in a museum after all. :)
> (though i doubt that's the reason why you don't see them in museums.)
>
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