Graffiti in Los Angeles is a contentious subject. Artists and academics say focusing on the crime is missing the point.
Los Angeles has always had a contradictory relationship with graffiti and the street cultures that birthed it. The city spends more than $11 million painting over graffiti each year, according to the Office of Community Beautification. Last year alone, the city paid to cover more than 32 million square feet of graffiti, said Paul Racs, the office’s director.
' It's impossible to draw a clean line between art and vandalism when it comes to graffiti, said Susan A. Phillips, a professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College and author of 'The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti.' Focusing on that question blinds you to the real reasons graffiti exists, she said. 'It’s really an anti-capitalism critique. It questions corporate control over public space.
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