How Does Street Art Help Cities?
It’s unclear at exactly what point street art became a cultural phenomenon, but for Retna it was long apparent: “We always knew it… just took the public a while.” If the eager, packed house at the Fowler Museum was any indication, Retna, a street artist, was prescient about the power of this renegade form of expression. He joined artist and gallery owner Man One, Fowler curator Patrick Polk, co-curator of MOCA’s street art exhibition Aaron Rose, and Los Angeles Times arts writer Jori Finkel to discuss the street art community, …
