A Case for Change in Graffiti Law
Graffiti is a Crime (2013), a spray paint stencil by Banksy in New York. Just last year, the iconic street artist Banksy earned approximately $10.57 million dollars from his art. In the same year, Los Angeles received over three hundred thousand requests to remove Graffiti citywide, and San Francisco spent more than $20 million on Graffiti clean up. Graffiti exists in a striking legal double bind: governments criminalize it as vandalism , yet the same legal system protects it under...