Editing Graffiti (section)

== Decorative and high art ==
{{Main|Street art}}
[[File:JonesyLondon.jpg|thumb|upright|A bronze work by Jonesy on a wall in Brick Lane ([[London]]). Diameter about 8&nbsp;cm.]]

In the early 1980s, the first art galleries to show graffitists to the public were [[Fashion Moda]] in [[the Bronx]], [[Now Gallery]] and [[Fun Gallery]], both in the [[East Village, Manhattan]].<ref name="openedition-fashionmoda">{{cite journal|url=https://journals.openedition.org/rrca/601|title=From the Street to Art Galleries : How Graffiti Became a Legitimate Art Form|date=2014|access-date=26 August 2018|journal=Open Edition|first=David|last=diallo}}</ref><ref name="hyperallergic-fashionmoda">{{cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/227683/35-years-after-fashion-moda-a-bronx-gallery-revisits-the-landmark-space/|title=35 Years After Fashion Moda, a Bronx Gallery Revisits the Landmark Space|date=6 August 2015|access-date=26 August 2018|work=Hyperallergic|first= Tiernan |last= Morgan}}</ref><ref name="nytimes-fashionmoda">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/recreating-the-fashion-moda-exhibition-of-1982.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/recreating-the-fashion-moda-exhibition-of-1982.html |archive-date=2022-01-02 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=When a South Bronx Collective Went International|date=23 March 2012|access-date=26 August 2018|newspaper=New York Times|first=Susan |last=Hodara}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="nydaily-fashionmoda">{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/fashion-moda-old-haven-artists-south-bronx-focus-special-event-saturday-article-1.1263587|title=The legacy of Fashion Moda, a shuttered art and performance space, to be spotlighted |date=15 February 2013 |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=New York Daily News|first=Tanyanika |last=Samuels }}</ref>

A 2006 exhibition at the [[Brooklyn Museum]] displayed graffiti as an art form that began in [[Boroughs of New York City|New York's outer boroughs]] and reached great heights in the early 1980s with the work of Crash, Lee, Daze, [[Keith Haring]], and [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]]. It displayed 22 works by New York graffitists, including [[Crash (graffiti artist)|Crash]], Daze, and [[Lady Pink]]. In an article about the exhibition in the magazine ''Time Out'', curator Charlotta Kotik said that she hoped the exhibition would cause viewers to rethink their assumptions about graffiti.

From the 1970s onwards, [[Burhan Doğançay]] photographed urban walls all over the world; these he then archived for use as sources of inspiration for his painterly works. The project today known as "Walls of the World" grew beyond even his own expectations and comprises about 30,000 individual images. It spans a period of 40 years across five continents and 114 countries. In 1982, photographs from this project comprised a one-man exhibition titled "Les murs murmurent, ils crient, ils chantent{{nbsp}}..." (The walls whisper, shout and sing{{nbsp}}...) at the [[Centre Pompidou|Centre Georges Pompidou]] in [[Paris]].

In Australia, art historians have judged some local graffiti of sufficient creative merit to rank them firmly within the arts. [[Oxford University Press]]'s art history text ''Australian Painting 1788–2000'' concludes with a long discussion of graffiti's key place within contemporary [[visual culture]], including the work of several Australian practitioners.<ref name=smithea>{{cite book |title=Australian Painting 1788–2000 |first1=Bernard William |last1=Smith|first2=Terry|last2=Smith|first3= Christopher|last3=Heathcote |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref>

Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the [[Grand Palais]] in Paris.
<ref name=rfi>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/112/article_3517.asp |title=RFI—Graffiti gets into the Grand Palais |publisher=Rfi.fr |access-date=29 July 2010 |archive-date=19 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091119002525/http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/112/article_3517.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=rohter>{{Cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30arts-TOASTINGGRAF_BRF.html | work=The New York Times | title=Toasting Graffiti Artists | first=Larry | last=Rohter | date=30 March 2009 | access-date=2 April 2010}}</ref>

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File:Graffiti (Budapest, Pestszentlőrinc).jpg|Graffiti on a wall in [[Budapest]], Hungary
File:Graffiti in Tikkurila.jpg|Graffiti on the wall of pedestrian tunnel in [[Tikkurila]], [[Vantaa]], Finland
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