VOICES
STEVEN P. HARRINGTON
JAIME ROJO
The Year in
Street Art
Images 2012
From
Brooklyn
Street Art
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STEVEN P. HARRINGTON,
Editor in chief and co-founder, BrooklynStreetArt.com
MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES
JAIME ROJO,
Editor of photography and co-founder, BrooklynStreetArt.
com
2012 WAS AN exciting year for
Street Art around the globe as it
continued to climb into the consciousness of the mainstream
with phone apps, museum exhibitions, public panels and workshops, street tours, auctions,
gallery shows, and an increased
recognition, if not a full-body bear
hug by cities with street art fes-
tivals. Rooted in an urban aerosol
tradition that comingled the concepts of outlaw with public art
while many of today’s Street Artists were children, this is clearly
not your fathers’ graffiti.
Street Art today is following an
explosive and almost organic route
for creative expression that is being
fueled by the ubiquitous capturing
and sharing by handheld devices
across personal networks instantly.
Because of this spawning and re-