Graffiti in the Art World

Museum of Modern Art 

www.moma.org

"Among the works by Haring in The Museum of Modern Art's collection is one of his masterworks, a 56-foot-long drawing from the early years of his brief but meteoric career that encompasses a lexicon of his imagery."

[In Bio For Keith Haring at Moma Haring] 

"began his career in the early 1980s with graffiti drawings made in the subways and on the sidewalks of New York City."

Brooklyn Museum

Exhibit: June 30–September 3, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com

http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/Programmes/PNewyork/New-York/New-York-Art.aspx

"An exhibition of twenty large-scale graffiti paintings from such influential artists as Michael Tracy ("Tracy 168"), Melvin Samuels, Jr. ("NOC 167"), Sandra Fabara ("Lady Pink"), Chris Ellis ("Daze"), and John Matos ("Crash")"

"Graffiti explores how a genre that began as a form of subversive public communication has become legitimate—moving away from the street and into private collections and galleries."

"Snatch"
 " an exhibit at the nonprofit, experimental art hub ESMoA

http://www.latimes.com

"six of the Getty Black Book artists and their crews — Cre8, Axis, Eyeone, Fishe, Miner and Defer — transformed ESMoA's main installation space into an explosion of color with 80-foot-wide murals on faux interior walls. Even the floor has been plastered with paint splatterings, tagging and stenciling."