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Los Angeles' Most Interesting Streetart of 2010
We polled the LA graffiti community for a list of the most interesting pieces put up in the last year. Here is the list they gave us. For alternate opinions, most with a less local focus, check out the lists at Unurth, BSA, and Street Spot.
From the year in Street Art on LAist
- Street Art: The Unwhitewashed Version (Dec. 10, 2010)
- MOCA Announces Street Art Show, Whitewashes Mural it Commissioned (Dec. 10, 2010)
- Arrested "Cat Tagger" Does Time, Gets Kitty Litter Show (Nov. 26, 2010)
- Photos: L.A. Street Art, Fall 2010 (Nov. 24, 2010)
- Beverly Hills Police Tow 'Art Bomb' Car Outside Gallery (Aug. 13, 2010)
- Photos: L.A. Street Art, June 2010 (July 7, 2010)
- Found in L.A.: MVP Kobe as Batman Street Art (June 19, 2010)
- Banksy-esque Street Art Pops up on Melrose (June 10, 2010)
- Irish Street Artist Takes on Venice Wall (June 9, 2010)
- European Street Artists Take to Spring Street in Downtown (June 4, 2010)
- Photos: Ahem, Banksy is in Town! (April 12, 2010)
- Photos: Street Art, March 2010 (March 16, 2010)
- About D*Face's Oscar Skeletons at Runyon Canyon & Mel's (March 5, 2010)
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