Less Street, More Art: Whole in the Wall

Street art started out as graffiti in New York in the 1970s, but has developed and spread to be much more than that. This weekend the Ravels in Motion crew, and by that I mean myself with my new video camera, went to see Whole in the Wall: 1970 - Now, a large exhibition put together by the Helen Beck Gallery featuring some of the most prominent street artist from the 1970s onward. It's on through June 27 at 529-535 W. 35th Street, and it's really interesting both as a piece of New York history and in the way it presents street art as its seeming antithesis, fine art.