By: Ellen C. Caldwell
for JSTOR Daily
The team behind POW! WOW! Hawaii is bringing the growing street art gathering to Long Beach, CA June 22-28th. During this week-long celebration, a network of international artists come together to engage with the community, offering gallery shows, educational events and workshops, concerts, and transforming public urban spaces into street art installations throughout the week.
Street art has not always had a clearly defined reputation in the art world. In fact, in Nicholas Alden Riggle’s 2010 study of street art, he posits that street art’s definition is contingent upon its being outside art: “Imagine a practice whose artworks are largely disconnected from the artworld because their significance hinges on their being outside of that world.” He poses questions about how we, as a culture, can blend art with the everyday:
How could there be an art practice that requires in a manner of speaking, taking art out of the museum, gallery, and private collection–ultimately, out of the artworld–and putting it into the fractured stream of everyday life? How could there be post-museum art?