Saturday, 10 February 2007

Saturday, February 10, 2007

NEW WAVE ART TERRORISTS HIT BOSTON AGAIN

Police in Boston, still shaken by the Aquateens attack, are already arresting people for possession of spray paint and driving while artistic. It's all about a big international gathering of graffiti artists scheduled for tonight.

... Organizers of tonight's event -- who have advertised that the event will feature water-based graffiti art painted live on models -- insisted that they were not trying to drum up publicity for their show or to encourage illegal graffiti around the region. They said the event was drawing artists from across the country, Europe, and South America.

"I sympathize [with the police], because for them, they feel like there's a bunch of graffiti writers getting together, so Fort Point is going to be destroyed," said one organizer, Curtis McMillan, an online gallery owner who said he hoped that tonight's event would help raise money for legitimate gallery space for graffiti artists.

"That's some negative attention," Charlie Levine, who owns Next Generation Media in Braintree, the promoter of tonight's event, said of the arrests. "I'd like to be able to have a peaceful event that doesn't end up with too many flashing lights."

Hehe. He said "flashing lights.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

"help raise money for legitimate gallery space for graffiti artists"<---that's really weird, cause when this art form starts to leave streets, it losts its meaning. Ironically enough, graffiti is always an illegal activity, and trying to break the rules of society, but it seems it has deconstruction by itself.