The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art opens the highly anticipated "Art in the Streets" exhibit this Sunday, April 17th. Featuring four decades of work by fifty legendary international and local artists, this exhibition includes installations from Banksy, Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Chaz Bojorquez, and more.
Telling the compelling story of street art and graffiti transforming into a globally established art movement, "Art in the Street" provides historical context, examines innovations, and surveys the cultural impact of street art. In specific, there will be an emphasis on Los Angeles Cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture (also see graphic design article: "The typography of LA Cholo Graffiti"). Additionally, a section of the exhibit highlighting 1980's New York artists features work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
Curated by MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch as well as Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, "Art in the Streets" will be the first major U.S. museum exhibition of graffiti and street art.
Exhibition runs from Sunday, April 17th until Monday, August 8th, 2011. The exhibition will then travel to the Brooklyn Museum, where it will be on view from March 30th until July 8th, 2012
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
For more information, visit: MOCA.org
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