Brooklyn art exhibit features beauty of graffiti

An exhibition on display in Williamsburg features the kind of artwork you'd once only find on buildings and trains.
Actress Rosie Perez opened Beyond the Streets, an effort that was curated in part by artist, producer and filmmaker Sacha Jenkins.
"I grew up in this this movement, it was fascinating, it was daring, it was dangerous and it was pure art," Perez said.
The movement started with kids and teens spray-painting their names or tagging.
"For the longest time people have shunned 'graffiti,'" Jenkins said. "At a time when the city was bankrupt and kids had nothing to do they were writing their names on trains. To think about where we've come from - coming from writing on the sides of subway cars to exhibitions like this is pretty amazing."
There are more than 1,000 works on display by more than 150 artists from around the world. The work is spread out over 100,000 square feet of space.
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