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Rafael Schacter

Rafael Schacter

Associate Professor in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London, researching graffiti, street art and public art; author of Monumental Graffiti (MIT Press, 2024).

Sep 1, 2026

14:01
issue?
14:02
Banksy is a very particular issue in that if Banksy produces a work on your home, Your life has changed, for better or for worse.
14:09
People have found it extremely stressful to have their home become a tourist site, to have their home totally change in value because of the production of his work.
14:19
I think, though, within graffiti in general, private homes are not something that are commonly written upon.
14:26
That's not really part of the canonical rules.
14:29
You don't write on private homes.
14:31
You don't write on private vehicles.
18:34
And do you now have a position of trust in the community, as it were, so that if you want to go out and talk to new people, you can speak to some of your contacts and they say, oh, Raphael, he's okay?

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