I couldn't believe my luck, in London for the 10k and looking for inspiration for my dissertation, and there it was a street art exhibition!!!
"In the first major public museum display of street art in London, Tate Modern has invited six internationally acclaimed artists whose work is intricately linked to the urban environment to create new works on the buildings iconic facade overlooking the Thames"
Street art at the Tate Modern brings an important aspect of current art practice and one that has influenced many artists, including Basquiat and Picasso. Although the term street art has been used since the late 1970's, the work by its very nature, is in constant flux and hard to categorize. Broadly speaking the term has come to define the more visual urban art, rather than text based graffiti and tagging.
