Is Graffiti Art?

«Actually, I hope we're beyond having an argument about whether graffiti is art. (...) Obviously art of various kinds has been illegal. Modernism was essentially banned by the Nazis as "decadent" and "Jewish." You could lose your life for it. And there are plenty of examples along those lines from all over the world; various regimes ban various forms of art, and set something official in their place. One might think of socialist realism, for example, and the banning of constructivism in revolutionary Russia.»

Crispin Sartwell