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Will SDPD target the Rocket Pop Street Artist?
For all of the civic beauty found in San Diego little is in the form of public art and of that which is beautiful an even smaller portion is of any significance. But then, little private art produced in San Diego is worth mention either. Artist communities? Please! Retirement communities if anything. Regardless of age San Diego artists are little house painters happy with a pretty picture and the fact that the title of "artist" elevates the stature of cognitive laziness. San Diego artists are either retired or hiding and the art establishment, museums and galleries, the institutions that are supposed to play interpreter between artists and the average citizen are doing little to help inform the public or encourage any kind of debate over art's validity; much less local art's validity. I'd also like to thank the Rocket Pop Street Artist for taking the time to think and to write. Although I see the connection between graffiti and street art in its illegality the difference between the two must be discussed and defined in much the same way the integrity of public art must be debated.— March 26, 2008 9:59 a.m.