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- <text id=91TT2058>
- <title>
- Sep. 16, 1991: Deface Value
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 75
- Deface Value
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- <p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole/New York
- </p>
- <p> What do you get for defacing public property in Los
- Angeles? A $10,000 grant, if you're ROBBIE CONAL. For years the
- artist has angered city officials by plastering telephone poles,
- traffic-signal boxes and other public property with his
- political paintings. But the city that once billed Conal $1,300
- for cleanup costs has given him $10,000 to put one of his works
- on a billboard, to be mounted this week, as part of an effort
- to discourage illegal street art. Nice try. "I will continue to
- do nonsanctioned art whenever I'm moved to," says Conal, who
- explains his desire to deface this way: "I've always had surface
- lust."
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- </body></article>
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