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We were looking at the description and lineup of this new Punk exhibit and thinking about how it extends to the early and current mural/street art things we see around us… Opine as you may about the roots of this scene and our academic attempts at qualitative mastery, but the street level street artists care nary a whit, for the most part. It isn’t just our anti-intellectual age; its just antithetical to make it into a club. Construct gates to enclose your favored few, but the artists who produce work on the streets may not bother climbing the fence to get in.

Its the ironic spirit of D.I.Y. that makes street art and graffiti most attractive for us —not its ability to make money for some nor burnish the reputation of another but to draw us together. The open access to self-expression is so alluring, and it is a testament to how truly innovative artists know how to seize a moment, transform a space, begin a dialogue, or weigh in on one. Create camps? Attempt to consolidate power? It is a folly. Why reject a corrupted and unfair pecking order only to reconstruct one? As we see more anniversary shows heralding punk and its origins, we recall that it was the liberty promised that was so appealing and the destruction of corrupt institutions that was most needed. The aesthetics may have become commodified. It’s spirit, never.

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alice Pasquini, Homesick, Judith Supine, Mike King, WERC, Pussy Power, Kane, Kone, Chris Haven, 6147, SLASH FTR, Geraluz, Coes Sneakers, AIC, and Skribblz.

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