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Enter the rat map. On a recent patrol, Mills and his colleague Bobby Corrigan, a doctor of rodentology who also works for the New York City health department, were back in the Bronx, on West 184th Street. The target was an abandoned house sprayed over with graffiti - a vestige of the way much of New York used to look 20 years...
...romanticize the automobile by itself. We made the cars; the mythology of open-road optimism was an after-market accessory. It was the work of advertising agencies in New York that rhymed U.S.A. with Chevrolet; Californians like the Beach Boys and George Lucas, who made American Graffiti; New Jerseyans like Bruce Springsteen, who sang about pink Cadillacs, Chevrolet Deluxes and suicide machines sprung from cages out on Highway...
...month teaching experiment in New York City, tells us that preschoolers are encouraged "to mess with shaving cream" [Nov. 22]. I expect that with such "encouragement," the little darlings in a few years will take up aerosol paint cans and leave their creative tags in the form of graffiti on public landmarks. But no doubt such "messing" with spray paint is just another form of self-expression. Richard Orlando, Montreal, Canada
...muted and hushed, as if curbed by the sanctions as well. For Chan, both experiences are connected. He pointed to an image on the screen—a white-washed New Orleans house smeared with the word “Baghdad.” The author of that graffiti, he said, “understood that the same logic of criminal neglect that gave us New Orleans gave us the Iraq war.” Though Chan does not plan to put on more theatrical productions in the future, working on “Godot” has made...
...past couple decades, the schism between high art and low art has been breached. “Where we used to have formal, widely agreed upon boundaries between what we considered high culture—Shakespeare, fine art—and low culture—Broadway musicals or graffiti art—we’ve seen a gradual blurring and redefinition of these boundaries,” Kaufman says. “Doing mashups can be as high-status as playing Beethoven’s String Quartets, and in many cases even more...