I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the status of graffiti is changing - though, local governments still hate it and spend inordinate amounts of money cleaning it up. My earlier posting about BANKSY's film Exit Through the Gift Shop getting nominated for an Academy Award for documentary was the first hint that graffiti is being taken a bit more seriously than it has in the past. True enough, there are plenty of bad, sloppy or just plain vandal painters (an upcoming post will be on defacing an 18th Century mill) but many graffiti images are thought provoking and insightful commentary about contemporary life.
BANKSY did not do the illustration below, but a recent issue of the
The New Yorker magazine featured the following image, possibly suggesting that some people are beginning to look at graffiti (or at least artistic graffiti) with a fresh perspective, open to the meaning and commentary suggested by the image.
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