Monday, April 25, 2011

OMG FLEE, Graffiti is motivated by the Anti Christ

Or so it seems to the breathless writer of said piece...

Mayor Ford, are you a moonlighting writer under the pen name 'Heather Mac Donald'?

I've always imagined you as a 'Gwendolyn' myself.

Drive behind the Geffen Contemporary, an art museum in downtown Los Angeles, and you will notice that it has painted over the graffiti scrawled on its back wall. Ordinarily, that wouldn’t be surprising; the Geffen’s neighbors also maintain constant vigilance against graffiti vandalism. But beginning in April, the Geffen—a satellite of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art—will host what MOCA proudly bills as America’s first major museum survey of “street art,” a euphemism for graffiti. Graffiti, it turns out, is something that MOCA celebrates only on other people’s property, not on its own.

One can only imagine Ms. Mac Donald clutching her pearls, and sipping her white wine to compose herself at the thought of the barbarians at the gates.

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