In fact, Degussa itself is not even directly involved; its product, reputedly the best anti-graffiti material on the market, was to have been supplied by another subcontractor.
That, at any rate, is what the Memorial Foundation for the Murdered Jews of Europe, which has overall responsibility for the memorial, decided in the case of the chemical company Degussa, which was to have provided the anti-graffiti material being used to protect the 2,700 concrete steles that are to be placed into the memorial ground.
Judge Block's ruling sets a powerful precedent by recognizing ephemeral work like graffiti as art with material value.
"Graffiti is such a loaded material given its historical context it's how a lot of people growing up in hip-hop culture left their mark and made themselves known," explains Welch.
His source materials include newspaper headlines, graffiti and all kinds of signage, the words combined in such a way as to evoke social issues like poverty and class consciousness.
In 2010, Pitchfork gave his Haunted Graffiti's first album of freshly recorded material, "Before Today" (4AD), its coveted Best New Music designation.
To protect the surface of materials from the effects of graffiti paints, there are anti-graffiti products that prevent the penetration of these paints into the pore system of the substrates, making the substrates water- and oil-repellent, thus facilitating their removal.
These include graffiti symbols promoting extremist messages, students accessing extremist material online, and students voicing opinions drawn from extremist ideologies.
Marcopoulos, with fifty unframed snaps of family, extreme-sports pals, roadkill, graffiti, and California beaches, has the show's most accessible material (his huge black-and-white Xerox of a bruised elbow is a minimalist high point).
"When we decided to do the giant piece, the big car, I also wanted to experiment with something, to try to work with a different material, and since I think my work is kind of dirty - dirty graffiti, primitive graffiti - far from what Street Art can represent - I think that my work needs more knowledge about the history of graffiti, about the letters, about the texture, about accumulation.
But I thought the Belgian Linen - a traditional artist's material - looked really nice with the brightly colored graffiti spray paint.
