From Nate Harrison Sent Fri, May 7th 1999, 22:04
From Nate Harrison Sent Fri, May 7th 1999, 22:04
I don't know of this counts but there's a show here in NYC of Barry McGee aka Twist, a fairly well known west coast tagger. It was really cool stuff, I think the show is travelling nationwide. I would call that genuine recognition... peace Nate On Fri, 7 May 1999, david turgeon wrote: > > > > & then pop stars like 3d (whatever his skills may be) get in museums for > > > face value, mostly. i have yet to hear of a genuine graffiti artist get > > > that kind of recognition. > > you can kind of count jean-michel basquiat in there. > > perhaps, but that was a while ago. many graffitis have been done since > then, & i'm sure better ones. though, thinking back, perhaps they look > a hell lot better on the streets than in a museum after all. :) > (though i doubt that's the reason why you don't see them in museums.) > > -- > david turgeon at http://www.notype.com >