Street Art, (dis)course: Discuss

As a writer, I’ve long been dedicated to Fine Art (painting, sculpture, installation, video) and perhaps, always will be. But I also think that this art—what’s commonly known as Graffiti Art or Street Art—deserves to be talked of in the language of high art, indoor art. (Hey: do you think I’m the person to do it? : – ) )

Kosice Slovakia street art fiasco

If I can go to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum, and see a Rudy Gernreich dress with a sexy hole placed right between the breasts (don’t have an exact pix here, but you get the idea), and then look down at the wall label and see that sexy hole described as a “fenestration”;

Gernreich, from debutanteclothing.com (from Philly exhibit)

if I can go to the Lower East Side, and read a press release on some abstract drawings and paintings in charcoal that first compares them to cinematic theory of the highest order, and then describes them as  … architectonic…crystalline forms that seem to rise up and break past a horizon to converge…a network of vectors…,

Raha Raissnia show at Miguel Abreu Gallery, les, 2009

then why can’t I darned well walk around Red Hook, and tell you that the stuff I see on a wall on Delavan Street, for instance, is about “rupture” in the Frenchiest, most theoretical, and yet most real sense?

Aby Warburg could re-write art history. (well, at least he tried to before he died.) Maybe we should re-write ‘Writing.’

out y’all.