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Graffiti: Street art ''   or crime?
A group of south London graffiti artists were jailed last week for up to two years for defacing public property. Yet as they begin their sentences, their work is to be championed by a New York gallery.
By Arifa Akbar and Paul Vallely
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
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A piece of graffiti, allegedly by Banksy, on a wall in central London. The artist's work now sells for hundreds of thousands of pounds
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On the face of it, as a society, we seem to be a little mixed-up when it comes to "graffiti", as you call it if you work in the local council's cleansing department, or "street art" as you say if you're the chap ''   and they do mainly seem to be blokes ''   wielding the spray can.
But the confusion now runs deeper than those who spray and those who remove the paint. Great British institutions have been polarised. Last week the might of English law delivered its verdict at Southwark Crown Court where five members of the DPM graffiti crew were jailed ''   one, Andrew Gillman, for two years ''   after admitting conspiracy to cause criminal damage costing the taxpayer at least £1m.
By contrast, just down the road, the riverside facade of Tate Modern had been covered in giant murals by six urban artists with international reputations, including Blu from Bologna, Faile from New York, and Sixeart from Barcelona, in the first display of street art at a major museum.
The courtroom and the museum were so close that supporters of the men on trial popped down to the...