Artist Painted Over by LAMOCA Releases Retrospective DVD

While still-newish LAMOCA director Jeffrey Deitch and the residents of Los Angeles might still be at odds concerning the former’s decision to paint over a mural the museum itself had commissioned, fearing its subject matter might upset its neighbors, the recent blast of publicity might wind up being at least a tiny bit positive for the artist himself. Blu, the Italian painter/filmmaker/street artist who was at the receiving end of Deitch’s whitewashing paintbrush, has just released a