General Interest • News > BBC Covers the ‘Art or Vandalism’ Argument
This weekend the BBC had released an article called Graffiti: Free Speech or Vandalism? With all of the recent coverage pertaining to freedom of speech, the right to bare spray paint, and the lawsuit that was filed in NYC this past week….. it is a good read for those that are interested. Link.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:14 am
this article is the truth .. if you write you are destroying other peoples property. if you disagree then your full of shit. if you owned a house (which most of yous dont ) you surely would’nt go and bomb the out side of your house nor the inside or your car for that much. also if i might add…. ive seen style wars many times and i never put much thought into what henry chalfant says …. during the movie he says some shit like …. grafitti , a sign that we lost all control.. ( something like that ) i guess saying how bombed the mta is ( at that time ) and they couldnt gain control … well if you think about it the TA has lost control again with the scratchiti on the windows and the acid etching. my point – they lost control again so vandals are winning… if everybody puts that impact on trains in paint … in due time they will lose control again.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:40 pm
yeah…but it should be legal on trains and subway everything has gone to bombing because of the subway era ending…i mean its not about quality anymore all the up-n-coming’s are straight ohh lets go vandalize some shit…little kids in the burbs…sad i tell yah sad
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:01 am
There is a great argument that always lies with the subject of graffiti. Being that it is an argument of ‘taste’, it is not a fair argument. You can find plenty of people that have visited a gallery [where so called 'art' hangs on a daily basis], and you will hear how many feel that ‘art’ wasn’t hanging on the wall. So, it really is an argument of personal taste. If art isn’t in the galleries to some, it definately isn’t on the streets.