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Sebastian Buck of Unurth, which is arguably the premiere street art photo blog, has a lot of visual goodies from LA MOCA's Art in the Streets show. He also has some very interesting thoughts on the show, which officially opens tomorrow:
Opinion
Raise your hand if you're not surprised that LA's Museum of Contemporary Art is getting tagged by a whole bunch of graffiti writers because of the upcoming Art in the Streets show? Well, Katsu is doing his part on the heels of an attention-grabbing faux MoMA/Nike ad series he pulled off in New York
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On April 17, MOCA LA's Art in the Streets exhibition opens. The show, which was organized in roughly a year or since Deitch became director of the institution, promises to be a major exploration of street art, graffiti and skateboard culture at one of the country's most important contemporary art in
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This morning, LA Anonymous unveiled their latest work, a circus-inspired poster installed on the north-facing wall of Zip Fusion Sushi in downtown LA, near Little Tokyo. Titled “Art in the Streets” (2011), the poster by LA Anonymous appears a week before MOCA LA director Jeffrey Deitch's Art in the
Opinion
The Blu/MOCA whitewash censorship incident isn't going away as some street artists continue to draw attention to LA MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch's lapse in judgment.
News
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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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
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
![Artists & Veterans Protest Deitch at MOCA Geffen [UPDATED]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/01/mocageffenstreetprotesthome.jpg)
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Even if LA MOCA thinks the Blu Mural Censorship controversy is going to go away, it isn't. The institution has not responded to Hyperallergic's requests for comments on the issue or an unedited interview on the topic of the Blu mural censorship. And now, LA Times's Culture Monster reports on the lat
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Odds are, you're probably doing some traveling in 2011. If you've got places to go, we've got art for you to check out. From Gerhard Richter's retrospective at the Tate to an exhibition of Gertrude Stein's personal collection in San Francisco, here are five exhibitions outside of New York to look fo
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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. …
![More Answers in MOCA Mural Censorship [UPDATE 4]](/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2010/12/deitchstreetart-home.jpg)
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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