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    BUT IS IT ART?

    Aug 07, 2019 2 minutes
    Words by Dom Conlon

    Sometimes it seems that when a rich person paints on a building it’s called art, but when a poor person paints it’s called graffiti.

    The difference might be that graffiti is often done without permission and is regarded as vandalism. However, art or not, graffiti has a long history with examples dating back to Ancient Egypt (and even earlier if you count cave paintings as graffiti).

    But is

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