Judge Acknowledges Graffiti Is Art
January 25, 2008
An alleged graffiti artist was tried in an Ontario, Calif., court for spray painting at a local skate park. Nothing new, right? Except that in this newspaper’s report, the judge himself acknowledged that the blue-colored abstract looked “more like a painting than mere graffiti.”
The man was still sentenced to 100 hours of community service for the painting, because — art or not — it was a problem for the city, the judge said. A problem that cost the city $1,300 to remove.
