Nearly two years ago, San Diego artist Nicholas Nicholas coined the word “mendalism”. It happened on January 1, 2011 when he noticed that Brazilian artist Stephan Doitschinoff’s untitled contribution to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Viva La Revolución street art exhibition had been vandalized. The mural’s red ribbon
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This video is a broadcast of a hip hop extravaganza in New York City put into place to raise money for a local graffiti artist who plans on turning himself in for one charge of graffiti. They discuss how they are aware that graffiti is a crime, but state that

Sometimes the shadow space where art and crime overlap is not money, not fame, but a vision. At least this is what Mark Patterson contends. His crime of installing the Surfing Madonna- a glass mosaic- under a train overpass in Encinitas was not motivated by senility or the search for