Graffiti Can Live Forever -- Google Releases Street Art View

Street art has a temporary lifespan.

Unlike classical art, which hangs safely on the walls of art galleries and museums inside frames and behind glass-casings and thick red velvet ropes, urban art isn’t protected in any way. In fact, graffiti art remains counter-cultural and subversive precisely because of it’s interaction with (and integration into) public spaces.

Since the release of Banksy’s street art documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, there’s a frantic urge to document graffiti around the world before it literally disintegrates before our eyes, weathering away into our long- forgotten past.

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