- Normal 0 Was it a blank canvas that needed to be filled, or just a wall that didn’t deserve to be vandalized?

Either way, the Art Institute of Chicago is spending the better part of the day sandblasting off a 50-foot long graffito from the East wall of the new Modern Wing.

The entire act was caught on tape by the museum’s security system.

“From what we can see on the security tape, it was a team of people that did it in 20-30 minutes,” says Public Affairs Director Erin Hogan. The tagging, which Hogan describes as having “a good use of color,” starts with the words “modern art” and ends with the phrase “made you look.”

For students at the Art Institute, the graffiti is art in the real world; something to be photographed with cell phone cameras and debated.

“It’s pretty awesome,” says Benjamin McCarthy, “they probably knew it was going to get washed down the next day, but I’m glad I got to see it."

His friend Tim Roberts is less forgiving. “It doesn’t need it because it’s nice already,” he says, “in an ugly place, like an underpass, it brings light…this is more obnoxious.”

This is not the first time a Chicago landmark has vandalized under cover of night.

Last year, the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park often called “the Bean,” was scratched with a set of initials. That was buffed out. The graffiti on the side of the Art Institute will be removed and the limestone will be treated to remove most traces of the paint.

Hogan says the Art Institute does have a collection of graffiti art, but she says it is inside the museum, not outside.

Of this unsolicited submission, she says, “it’s disappointing…it’s sort of the price of doing business in the big city I guess."

Months of diligent documentation by the Santee Public Works Department have paid off.

On Friday, deputies arrested of seven suspected criminal graffiti "taggers” who they said were responsible for around 100 graffiti vandalism cases in Santee since last April, resulting in $24,000 in damage.

The Public Works Department worked hard to document and clean up the damage caused by the taggers and the Graffiti Tracker investigation system was used to document the "tagging crew.” As a result, Santee Deputies obtained a search warrant, which was served at the Santee residence of two of the suspects.

Deputies said they found overwhelming evidence in the home, which resulted in the arrest of the residents and led to the identification and arrest of numerous other suspected "taggers".

The city hopes that prosecution will lead to restitution and the city's ability to recover the cost of the repair and repainting.

A Westmoreland County man who confronted a judge over a sentence admitted to sheriff's deputies that he spray-painted a threat against the judge on the courthouse wall because the judge "disrespected him," according to a criminal complaint.

Allegheny County sheriff's deputies arrested Paul Rodriguez Sirmons, 39, of North Huntingdon, Tuesday night on charges that he used red paint on Feb. 2 to scribble a largely illegible message that included "Judge Ma..." and "die" near the Ross Street entrance.

Sirmons told deputies he painted the message in reference to Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Manning. Sirmons said he confronted Manning while the judge was shopping with his wife at Macy's, Downtown, and demanded to know why Manning had placed him on probation years before, the complaint states.

"Judge Manning told him to get out of his face, and Sirmons said he left," the complaint states. "Sirmons said that he spray-painted the wall because Judge Manning disrespected him."

Manning said he recalled speaking with the man in the fall, but outside the courthouse on the street. The judge said Sirmons tried to speak with him about a probation violation. Manning said he informed Sirmons he couldn't talk about court business and that he should speak with his attorney.

"The credit should go to Lt. Jack Kearney and his detectives for finding him," said Manning. "We ought to send them after Osama bin Laden."

In 1994, Manning sentenced Sirmons to two years' probation on a simple assault charge, court records show.

In October 2007, Sirmons was charged with contempt of court for taking pictures of witnesses in a courtroom during a trial in the fatal shooting of a state trooper. Judge Lawrence O'Toole found Sirmons guilty of summary charges of defiant trespass, disorderly conduct and harassment in connection with the picture-taking.

Sirmons was arrested two other times, once by Pitt police in February 2008 for trespassing, giving false identification and disorderly conduct; and in June 1995 for aggravated assault, resisting arrest and other charges, court records show.

The Sheriff's Office Tuesday released video footage of a person approaching the courthouse around the time of the spray-painting incident. A man called and tipped off investigators to Sirmons, Sheriff Bill Mullen said.

Sirmons is charged with criminal mischief, institutional vandalism and terroristic threats.

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As written on suite101

http://outsider-art.suite101.com/article.cfm/fighting_graffiti

Background of Graffiti

Graffiti is shapes, words, symbols, pictures painted on the sides of anything seen to the public eye including buildings, subways, bridges and other surfaces. Graffiti comes from the Greek word graphein, meaning “to write” and found its name in the 1960s. It was originally done by street gangs to mark territory, and political activists.

In The Beginning

In Philadelphia, PA, two artists involved in the roots of a bombing wrote their names throughout the city, which gained the Press’s attention. Their tag names were CORNBREAD and COOL EARL. Still today, it is unsure if New York heard of this or if they happened conscientiously at the same time.

Shortly after, Manhattan discovered they had artists of their own. TAKI 183 was the first to be recognized by The New York Times. However, other early artists noted were FRANK 207, JOE 136, and JULIO 204.

The subway system became a line of communication between these artists, as they became conscious of each others' efforts, and this began the competition. They would ride the trains and hit as many cars as possible. They soon discovered that it would be the easiest in a train yard for they would not get caught as easily and they could hit as many trains as possible. This is the method of bombing.

In 1975 bombing went to a whole new form called whole cars, which displayed whole murals on train or subway cars. At this time, the throw up (a form of bubble letter with no color on the inside) also became a popular form of tagging.

About crossed out, many young people who like the wall, graffiti is a word to express a person freedom of expression.

Suite101 website is written like this

http://visual-arts-education.suite101.com/article.cfm/grafitti_tag_writing_as_an_artform

What graffiti artists mean when they talk about the "Tag," is an individual's visual design, signature or identifying marks of ownership of works of art.

Bombing

There are many cultural characteristics of the formalities surrounding the young man tag writing. Some young people call it a kind of artistic statement 'bombing. "What's the name refers to a 'fly tonight' aspect of the emergence of graffiti on every blank wall is interesting. Graffiti is often regarded as the scourge of the business, management of railway stations and others who have an attractive public space for artists invasive. Grafiti The ideal has a large space (usually light colored) walls that can be seen from a distance.

Tags

Code name in this art is random from the nickname, the local slang, or from the words that have a cool melody ring to them. Various areas have customary ways of adaptation to work to evolve. There is a formal convention with the way these words are formed. However, generally, that tag will have a number of letters. This allows the words to be great and scribbling in a beautiful formation.

Works of art or Vandalism?

Some of the writing graffiti vandalism and other works are permitted by local councils, or commissioned by local businesses. Some councils will not allow graffiti to be on duty in case it encourages more. There can be many reasons why young people take the risk of committing a crime such as vandalism.

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