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Sep 27, 2011

When Street Art is Attacked by the Government, Artist Tags the Sky

Recently, the Los Angeles City Council put a moratorium on murals, meaning that all public art, whether graffiti, tagging, installations, or legal commissioned artwork is now outlawed. Experts are calling the ban "unconstitutional," but the council is still spending more than $10 million dollars on "graffiti abatement."

In response, street artist Saber, known for the world's largest graffiti, uh, installation, hired a skywriter to avoid the streets altogether. 

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  Head to Juxtapoz and LA Weekly for details, but the best images I've found are at The Hundreds.

 

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@Anonymous - The LA Weekly article above sets up the constrast between public art and the billboards. Fascinating lens to think about this.

A city being anti-graffiti is one thing. But no commisioned murals? That's ridiculous! It's odd that a lot of buildings in downtown LA, including the Ritz Carlton and JW Marriot are allowed to have billboard ads all the way down the side of the building, but a commisioned mural is out of the question...

Robert Bolano - Distant Star.  He's a post modern Chilean author who actually wrote about this very thing.  When the goverment silences the streets, take to the air. :D

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