INSTRUCTOR:
BRAD BARTLETT

MEDIA:
EDITORIAL
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Community-generated art forms have enormous economic and social values, but most source communities have little control over them. The art market is filled with tension, it is explained as the inevitable dichotomy between art and commerce. For graffiti and street art this tension exists particularly because it is traditionally anti-commercial, unsanctioned, and ephemeral but nevertheless found in art markets. Graffiti and street art are transformed into market products by introducing a concept of “exchangification”. Art markets have changed the graffiti and street art from style competition to fame competition. Who owns the culture?