Street art goes home: museum of graffiti opens in Berlin
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#32NMS)
Urban Nation, which will champion the movement and archive its works, opens with pieces by Banksy and Blek le Rat
For some it is the largest and most democratic art movement the world has ever seen, for others it is unwanted visual pollution. But street art now has a permanent claim on the art world: an entire museum dedicated to the genre.
Urban Nation in Berlin is the world's first major institution built to champion and archive street art and graffiti, which fully emerged in New York in the 1970s with artists who would tag the subway tunnels. Since then it has grown into a global movement, with artists making works - mostly illegally - on cityscapes around the world.
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