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- PEOPLE, Page 75Deface Value
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- By ALEXANDER TRESNIOWSKI/Reported by Wendy Cole/New York
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- 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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