![]() ![]() Zimbabwe’s history of colonization informs what appears on the walls ‘tagged’ by young artists. The moral imagination and critical capacity of Zimbabwean graffiti artists challenges a market-driven docility. Also check out The Nature of Graffiti, a gallery that illustrates some of these ideas from an environmental perspective. This roundtable is a co-production of The Nature of Cities and the new website Arts Everywhere, where these responses are also published. What are examples of graffiti as beneficial influences in communities, as propellants of expression and dialog? Where are they? How can they be nurtured? Can they be nurtured without undermining their essentially outsider qualities? Interest in these art forms as social expression is broad, and the work itself takes many shapes-from simple tags of identity, to scrawled expressions of protest and politics, to complex and beautiful scenes that virtually everyone would say are “art”, despite their sometimes rough locations. ![]() “Street art”, graffiti’s more formal cousin, which is often commissioned and sanctioned, has a firmer place in communities, but can still be an important form of “outsider” expression. In some cities, it is legal, within limits, and valued as a form of social expression. ![]() Visit the gallery of nature-theme street art.In many cities, graffiti is associated with decay, with communities out of control, and so it is outlawed. ![]()
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