Record Museum Attendance for Graffiti Exhibition
Over 200,000 people attended the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Arts’s “Art in the Street” exhibition last month. According to an article in the NY Times it’s the highest attendance of an exhibition in the museum’s history. It would be interesting to see the average age of the attendants. I’m guessing there was a large showing of 20-somethings who were raised with graffiti/street art movement that began with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Both those artists, along with contemporary favorites like Banksy, had works in the show. Because a large part of street art relies on documenting the work, many celebrated filmmakers were also included in the event. It seems a controversial art form is finally getting its day in the sun.
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