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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
On Saturday night, the renowned and mysterious Italian street artist Blu went on an art-destroying spree through the streets of Bologna.
Blu
Opinion
Deitch Listens as Carlo McCormick Brings Up Blu Whitewash
According to the art world's favorite vlogger, James Kalm, Art in the Streets essayist Carlo McCormick spoke on June 19 at MOCA and Jeffrey Deitch was in the crowd.
Interview
An Office in Madrid Pairs Street Artists With Empty Walls
The “Oficina de Gestion de Muros” (Walls Management Office) is an independent Spanish project that fills the empty spaces around the city of Madrid with art. WMO is putting the best street artists on the planet in touch with Madrid locals, neighbors, shopkeepers and businesses alike who have empty w
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Protesters Stage 'Funeral Procession of Free Artistic Expression' in LA Against Smithsonian Censorship
Los Angeles — With a cardboard cross and draped coffin, a group of activists and artists assembled in front of downtown LA's Millennium Biltmore Hotel to stage a “Funeral Procession of Free Artistic Expression,” where Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough was speaking as part of the Town Hall Los Angel
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Deitch Condoms Ensures Your Art Is 'Safe'
Last Thursday January 13, there was a panel discussion at LA's Fowler Museum titled "How Does Street Art Humanize Cities?" Organized with Zócalo, the event featured curators, artists, and reporters, most of whom were associated in some way with the LA MOCA's upcoming street art exhibition, yet to ev
Opinion
Is America Ready to Confront Its Artistic Taboos?
Now that the dust has somewhat settled on the Wojnarowicz and Blu censorship cases, a number of people have been chiming in about what this tells us about the state of art and our culture, specifically American culture. The numerous opinions from where I stand look dire. Here are some fascinating po
Opinion
Robert Greenwald Blasts Jeffrey Deitch's Order to Destroy Blu Mural
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films shoots down MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch's decision to whitewash the Blu mural without consulting the community … This.Is.A.Must.Read. …
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More Answers in MOCA Mural Censorship [UPDATE 4]
Some answers are finally surfacing after a week of the LA MOCA controversy. Recently an email between the censored street artist Blu and renowned graffiti photographer Henry Chalfant has been posted online. Blu has confirmed to me via email that the text is real, and Chalfant has said he will provid
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Blu Says Whitewash Was 'a CURATORIAL CHOICE that involves the CENSORSHIP of a mural'
Artist Blu has just blogged about his surprise that the word "censorship" is disappearing from the discussion of his whitewashed mural and being replaced by the word "curatorial choice." He also reveals why the mural isn't as finished as some of his other work …
Art
Interpreting Blu's Whitewashed Mural, Part 1
There has been so much talk about Blu's commissioned mural but few people are talking about the work itself and what it could mean. As a critic who has been looking at a great deal of street art for years, I want to weigh in on the topic. Some art critics have been dismissive of the work and thought
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Blu Says Deitch/MOCA Censored Him
Just when you thought this story may be dead, Italian street artist Blu, whose mural was whitewashed by MOCA [http://hyperallergic.com/14367/mural-whitewashed-la-moca/] last week, has shot back at Jeffrey Deitch's brush-this-all-under-the-rug mentality [http://hyperallergic.com/14672/deitch-explain-
Art
Deitch's Blunder
Blu is a street artist. One of the points of being a street artist is freedom to express yourself publicly, without rules. Once a museum commissions a street artist to paint a mural on an outdoor wall does it then become public art and institutional? I think so. And I don’t blame Blu for taking a mu