Street Art at MOCA 2011

this show is a maze of amazement....
from Mr. Cartoony's candy truck:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

and his enchanting blue glitter-flake paint job:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

to the Terry Richardson display of photos, complete with a listening bell to hear voice mail messages from his famous dad, Bob, to the looped Grandmaster Flash and his poet tribe, to the Shepard Fairey stencils..(oh Jonesy! oh Henry!):

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

Banksy in full glory w/a tribute to Rodney King (rep'd by a pinata):

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

Andre from Paris, who I have been spotting around the globe and is a personal favorite,
painted these into the show:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

Keith Haring really had his finger on the pulse, I remember the first time, seeing his simple lines up in New York when I was a wee kitten.

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The highway sign, all but obscured...complete with floating plastic bags...

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

so much of the tagging is territorial, a language of secrets, done on the run, messages that I may never understand, and don't need to. That this exhibit exists is enough. Not all of the graffiti art drew me in, but the hobo exhibit, some of the real roots of tagging was pure fascination. Train art as documented by Bill Daniel, the Bozo Texino stuff, man...that's some life.
The Dash SNow corner, I spent my time here...
& Fab 5 Freddy!

and Invader! very, very clever. I remember seeing these everywhere in NYC...

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

The Larry Clark was a bit low-impact, and I usually love his work. In fact, at first, i thought the Ed Templeton pieces were his...but no.

and this installation confused me, not sure why it was included, hopeful someone can school me on it:

From MOCA:Art in the Streets

There is so much more, but I gotta get some work done today, the boss comes next week, and i got boxes of fan mail to go through for him.
Show is up until August 8th, if you can take an afternoon, go down to the Geffen Contemporary @ MOCA,
have some sushi in Little Tokyo, and see some history.