Rat is An Anagram for Art

There was much excitement amongst lovers of underground art when it was announced that Jeffrey Deitch, former owner of Deitch Projects, was to starting running MOCA...but Mr. Deitch disappointed art lovers of all forms with his poorly received first show (featuring work by Dennis Hopper). At this point it seemed as though the game was lost both for Mr. Deitch and those who had expected better from him, but then he announced "Art in the Streets", the largest museum street art show to date...needless to say, everybody, including myself, went wild.

The show was not a letdown, in fact, it far exceeded my expectations, which were extremely high as I am a huge street art fan...actually that's a lie, I'm only like 5 feet tall...ahaha get it?! Sorry, that was low even by my standards... Anyways, the show was really too vast to even really comprehend, put aside share online, but here are a few highlights










Banksy's take on Rodney King, a super realistic sculpture by the man of many pseudonyms, Barry McGee/Twist/Twister/Twisto/Twisty/Ray Fong/Lydia Fong/R. Fong/Robert Pimple/Bernon Vernon/Ray Virgil









A large-scale installation by Margaret Killigan, whom death took much to early and an even large, unbelievably whimsical installation by Os Gemeos...seriously that thing was amazing; there were drums with faces painted on them and little window boxes with toys and of course a house sticking off of it (which you can kind of see above)










A detail of the Kenny Scharf car, which might just be the coolest thing I've ever seen and Mister Cartoon's ice cream truck, which is also very high up on the my list of amazing things...I'd seen it twice before and I still spent like 20 straight minutes staring at it










One of his many signature tiles that Invader snuck in and around the show and a piece by André aka Monsieur André aka Monsieur A aka Mr. A that lead to the bathroom