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摘要

The relationship of street art to the commercial art world has always been a tricky one. In the past few years, as street art has exploded from variations on fat-lettered graffiti to sophisticated murals and stencils, works by its top practitioners have sold at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars: a far cry from such art's usually subversive origins. But whereas many street artists now create work expressly for galleries, starting out-and, often, continuing-in the trenches of "outside" art is what gives them credibility and, ironic as it is, market legitimacy.