In a review of the clothing of Rei Kawakubo, in The New York Review of Books, the painter David Salle writes "In our time, juxtaposition itself has become the engine of art, or rather, where art's inner energy becomes most visible." Perhaps that explains why I find street art or graffiti - the seemingly random juxtaposition of images and words, by a single "artist", perhaps layered by another, then arrayed as on a gallery wall, only to be randomly eroded - as pleasing and engaging as most more formal contemporary paintings. Here are three examples seen within a block near Whole Foods on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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