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Market blurring line between graffiti and art

This story from the New York Times confronts the question, "Is graffiti Art?", and answers, "It is, this year":PARIS ? Like a slow-burning fuse, graffiti has smoldered in the contemporary art world for decades: omnipresent in the streets yet not quite hot enough to catch fire in the market. But this year it exploded, with graffiti and ?street art? shows in major museums and gallery spaces both sides of the Atlantic ? and people have been lining up round the block to get in.In March and April, a show of graffiti tags in the south-west gallery of the Grand Palais, one of the top Paris exhibition venues, was a media and public sensation.?The lines around the building every day were even longer than those for the Warhol exhibition next door,? said Alain-Dominique Gallizia, a French architect who created the show, during an interview...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).