LA-based artist Eddie Colla took his critique of MOCA’s latest popularity contest exhibit right to the streets with this recent billboard takeover aimed squarely at the museum’s curator Jeffrey Deitch.
The outdoor advertising company that maintains the space quickly removed it, but the pithy visual communication lives on and certainly makes more sense than this lengthy diatribe in the City Journal by Heather MacDonald, whose unbridled ignorance is more destructive than any spray painted wall could ever be. This following excerpt is particularly slow-minded:
Not only would MOCA never tolerate uninvited graffiti on its walls (indeed, it doesn’t even permit visitors to use a pen for note-taking within its walls, an affectation unknown in most of the world’s greatest museums); none of its trustees would allow their Westside mansions or offices to be adorned with graffiti, either.
It’s probably safe to say they wouldn’t want a Picasso painted on the exterior of their posh homes either. Wait, what’s her point again?
she sound's like she hasn't gotten the dick in awhile… unless she's a carpet muncher… what a dumb biatch…
Slow-minded? That writing was articulate and intelligent. Just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean they are stupid. If you ask me, she got a lot of shit square in the nose.
I'm not judging the writer on her eloquence, but content, which for me, was pompous, tragically cliche, and offered a very mainstream POV with a heaping touch of ignorance. But hey, at least she writes well… (for what basically amounts to a right-leaning, ultra-conservative think tank: http://www.manhattan-institute.org)
You are the pompous one for dismissing her as "slow-minded" because you disagree with her. And yes, she is too conservative on some of her base points, but she is spot on with other points, particularly the ones about hypocrisy and how graffiti/crime can be capitalized on much easier if you're of a certain socioeconomic status. Albeit those points are red-herrings in her main argument..one that you and I would agree are based on conveniently skewed perspectives. My original premise remains intact Bucky, you called her dumb and she isn't.
This is an obvious knock-off of Banksy aesthetically. Biters never prosper in the street, but they seem to get press.
just because it is a stencil doesnt mean its a banksy ripoff.
Have you ever seen a Banksy? Black character stencil with red drippy spraypaint message sloppily scrawled next to it. You're tripping and Eddie is slipping.