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As soon as 'mainstream' theater people get excited about some aspect of popular culture, it's a safe bet that no one else cares about it anymore. #hiphop
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Also, don't at least some hip-hop arts have a viable commercial base in ways that, say, most literary arts do not? #hiphop
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11/03/09
Yes -- when theater people talk about hip-hop, they mean Danny Hoch and anyone else who ever rhymed his way through a one-man show at a major not-for-profit (in front of white people paying $60 a ticket). #hiphop
11/03/09
"Oh, Rocco, nice way to serve up a wedge issue going into the midterm elections."
I smell a trend!
Next time I see any urban youths I'll ask them if they have any "wedge issues." #hiphop
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Maybe graffiti is supposed to be a more ephemeral art-form. Even the artists don't seem to last for too long (Haring, Basquiat, Dash Snow). #thehighline
10/20/09
The reason people don't like graffiti is because it makes them feel like they have no control. Illicit graffiti is a power grab by the artist. That's what makes it great.
Oh, and lets can the tired argument that it's not art. It is indisputably art. It may suck aesthetically or it may not. But it's obviously art. #thehighline
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10/20/09
Neck Face's rebuttal.
10/20/09
The question of whether or not graffiti is art seems way less important than the question of whether, even if it's not art, the city couldn't find about a million better ways to spend the insane amount of money this surely cost taxpayers. #thehighline
10/20/09
The shitty stuff is The Broken Window Theory come to life. The good stuff is transcendent. Along the LIRR right of way near Arris Lofts, there's a series of graffiti stick figures who look for all the world like they're running. Very cool. There also used to be a whole prose story written on one of the retaining walls, and I would hope that the train would slow down long enough for me to read it. (It did - typical LIRR - and it was very fun to read.)
Where it crosses the line into vandalism is pretty clear - we all know it when we see it. #thehighline
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(I'd tag the Highline for a free kiss from Sheila or Moe ...oh wait) #thehighline
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Yes, "real New Yorkers" hate graffiti too.
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