People have been reconfiguring the ads on the L for a minute. And it is not MoMA doing it either. I am noit sure if its a good idea to speak on it (of which will spread he idea) or to just quielty do something about it (best opion but may backfire due to lack of follow-up cause no one is paying attention to it).

Guess we will find out.

From my perspective, I’ve never seen any defacements of existing street art that have ever “improved” the art, or “added a statement”. I’m willing to admit that there may be exceptions, but I haven’t seen them. In the majority of cases, it seems to be graffitti artists just riding on the success of someone much more influential than them (defacing a Banksy, for example, is sure to get you noticed…).

There’s a really sad example of this at a subway station in London, UK: Vauxhall. There was a brick wall, with inset sections forming quasi-”frames”. Since the ’80s, an entire platform was filled with beautiful depictions of “London Life” in graffiti style. Station staff left them there, despite it being graffiti. Then about a year ago, some idiot went and drew a massive tag all over it – destroying the art which had stood for about twenty years.