Graffiti as Art?

Great article from Heather Mac Donald about a graffiti exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.  I didn't know that the 'artist' who did the iconic Obama "Hope" portrait started in graffiti and shares many of the movement's misplaced ideas and anarchist tendencies.  We are certainly no fans of graffiti around here, suffering its blight on Thomas regularly, probably by punk high school kids from North H.S.  Even Bobbins, as an artist, has no time for people who trash private property and proudly proclaim it "art."