Graffiti-Art Exhibit Is Artless to Police Commissioner Bratton
PIA CATTON
Graffiti appears, intentionally, on the walls of multiple New York City art venues, including a former police precinct, but it still riles the police commissioner.
"I find it outrageous that one of the city's museums is currently celebrating graffiti and what a great impact it had on the city," Commissioner William Bratton said Monday during a meeting with Wall Street Journal editors.
His criticism was sparked by the Museum of the City of New York's graffiti-art exhibit "City as Canvas," which opened in February and features more than 150 images from the 1970s and '80s, including photos showing graffiti-covered subway cars as well as artists' sketches and painted canvases. The collection, including works by artists such as Keith Haring and Lee Quiñones, was donated to the museum in 1994.
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