"Graffiti is the Most Important Art Form in the Last Half-Century"

By Bill Benzon of New Savanna

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...though many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti – by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did time for it. Still do.

Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?

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...though many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti – by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did time for it. Still do.

Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?

- See more at: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf

...though many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti – by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did time for it. Still do.

Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?

- See more at: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpufv

...though many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti – by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did time for it. Still do.

Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?

- See more at: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf

...though many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti – by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did time for it. Still do.

Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?

- See more at: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf

...though many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti – by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did time for it. Still do.

Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?

- See more at: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf

...though many don’t think of it as art at all, but as crime. After all graffiti – by which I mean the styles that originated in New York City and Philadelphia in the late 1960s and early 1970s – was born when kids and young adults began spray-canning their names on other people’s walls without permission. They were committing crimes, and some of them did time for it. Still do.

Art? Crime? Art? Crime? The question isn’t a real or least not a very deep one. Why can’t graffiti be both artistic and criminal?

- See more at: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/graffiti-is-the-most-important-art-form-of-the-last-half-century.html#sthash.s7ZTERB7.dpuf