Archinect - News2024-11-21T15:13:32-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/141220311/leading-street-artists-weigh-in-on-the-gentrification-debate
Leading street artists weigh in on the gentrification debate Alexander Walter2015-11-16T18:32:00-05:00>2015-11-18T23:11:55-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/gi/gilypdobb0rbnjl1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Earlier this week, the online street art community was abuzz about an article by Rafael Schacter for The Conversation, From dissident to decorative: why street art sold out and gentrified our cities. [...]
Basically, Schacter argues that street art isn’t rebellious anymore. Rather, that it’s most notable form is as a tool used by corporations to spur gentrification. Agree or disagree, the article is a must-read.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Vandalog author RJ Rushmore reached out to some of the influential figures in street art and muralism to get their reactions to <a href="https://theconversation.com/from-dissident-to-decorative-why-street-art-sold-out-and-gentrified-our-cities-46030" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Schacter's claim</a> that street art has sold out and become complicit in the corporate gentrification of our cities. He received responses from Buff Monster, Living Walls, 1xRun, Jeffrey Deitch, Libray Street Collective, Tristan Eaton, John Fekner, Gaia, Ganzeer, Carlo McCormick, The Painted Desert Project, Jessie Unterhalter, Vexta, Wall Therapy and shared their views <a href="https://blog.vandalog.com/2015/11/has-street-art-sold-out-and-gentrified-our-cities/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Related news and one exclusive interview with Buff Monster on Archinect:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/140944999/a-closer-look-at-the-often-complicated-relationship-between-placemaking-and-gentrification" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A closer look at the often complicated relationship between placemaking and gentrification</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/131021521/detroit-issues-arrest-for-vandal-shepard-fairey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Detroit issues arrest for "vandal" Shepard Fairey</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/46913/candy-coated-city-non-sequitur-interviews-buff-monster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Candy Coated City: Non Sequitur interviews Buff Monster</a></li></ul>
https://archinect.com/news/article/126380297/ai-weiwei-jacob-appelbaum-and-the-dissident-experience
Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum and the dissident experience Alexander Walter2015-04-28T20:20:00-04:00>2015-04-29T19:02:49-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4c/4cf5514582f69a4b70cef5ff6eea99d4?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It’s a Thursday morning in Beijing, and the world’s most famous living artist, Ai Weiwei, is sitting with one of the world’s most controversial technologists, Jacob Appelbaum, in the second-floor lobby of the East Hotel. [...]
On a whim, Ai suggests that they call Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living for the last two years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. [...]
Ai and Assange talk for several minutes about the mundanities of the dissident life.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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