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Charming. The neighborhood association doesn’t really represent the neighborhood, just homeowners. Ginsburg doesn’t mention that 77% of FMC residents are single renters (not affluent nuclear families).

Montrose may be on a winding path to gentrification, but those who foolishly end up not liking what they bargained for can still get out.

well said moron – it’s not like you’ve ever sat in a CEO chair – you’ve no real idea what it took for them to get there because you’ll never do anything but write garbage for a half ass rag

To the uninitiated, their promotion of Stick Em Up is an attempt look tuned-in and hip, but their real intent is to drive up attendance (read $$$$$), with no uniqueness or originality of thought whatsoever; consider it a mere marketing ploy fashioned after the MOCA Art in the Streets by Jeffrey Deitch which attracted a body-count of over 200,000 gawkers (a fact not overlooked by museums with declining attendance everywhere). Had this film been presented to the MFAH board/bored in the heyday of graffiti art (the 80s) it would have been simultaneously ridiculed, vanquished and summarily escorted through the front doors by armed security guards, never to return again to the realm of high society… until today (and no doubt after some shrewd board member read about about the Deitch-Coup in any one of a half dozen art rags which heralded its ingenuity). The informed should consider its acceptance the death knell of street art in Houston, which may now exit stage left and retreat back to the dark and shadowy world from whence it came… that is, if it hopes to retain any semblance of legitimacy.

Their promotion of Stick ‘Em Up the movie is a transparent attempt look ‘tuned-in and hip’ to the uninitiated, but the real intent is to drive up attendance (read $$$$$), with no uniqueness or originality of thought whatsoever; consider it a mere marketing ploy fashioned after Jeffrey Deitch’s ‘Art in the Streets’ at MOCA which attracted a body-count of over 200,000 gawkers (a fact not overlooked by museums with declining attendance everywhere). Had this film been presented to the MFAH board/bored in graffiti art’s heyday in the 1980’s, it would have been summarily banished and escorted through the front doors by armed security guards, never to return again to the realm of high society… until today (and no doubt after some shrewd board member read about about the Deitch-Coup in any one of a half dozen art rags). The informed should consider its acceptance the ‘death knell’ of street art in Houston, which may now exit stage left and retreat to the Dark Shadows (Depp notwithstanding) from which it came… that is if it hopes to retain any semblance of legitimacy.

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