This weekend I attended the Art in the Streets museum exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary at the MOCA in downtown Los Angeles. It was written that this was the very first major US museum display of street art and graffiti art. The obvious problem with that statement is the fact that the idea of a street art exhibition inside the whitewashed walls of a sanctioned museum is somewhat of an oxymoron. Although the display was vast and educational on the motif of graffiti and street art (and I am a fan of several of the artists), I feel like the whole thing sort of cheapened the essense of the anarchist graffiti artist. I don't think the founders and originators of the movement would have ever imagined such a spectacle. At the end of the exhibit, the old fat white security guard making sure the line to the gift shop didn't get disorderly was the metaphorical nail in the coffin for the street art movement.

Anyway, I put together a collage of my walk through the exhibit: