In March and April, a show of graffiti tags in the south-west gallery of the Grand Palais, one of the top Paris exhibition venues, was a media and public sensation.
“The lines around the building every day were even longer than those for the Warhol exhibition next door,” said Alain-Dominique Gallizia, a French architect who created the show, during an interview.
On 300 identical rectangular canvases, Mr. Gallizia commissioned matched pairs of paintings from leading street artists worldwide, to create a panorama of graffiti’s historical and geographical development from 1970s New York subway roots to modern urban landscapes as far-flung as Australia and Brazil.
Special Report - Contemporary Art - Graffiti Gains New Respect - NYTimes.com
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