Graffiti Vandalism Follows ‘Art in the Streets’ Show at MOCA in Little Tokyo

Police have received complaints from downtown dwellers about an increase in vandalism they think is related to MOCA's upcoming "Art in the Streets" show at the Geffen Contemporary. It's not clear to us if residents and business owners have a problem with some of the clearly related murals that have gone up in the area or some of the tagging that has followed. But either way, it's all illegal, the LAPD's Jack Richter tells the Weekly. Come again? Yeah, even a mural that's going up on the actual Geffen in Little Tokyo would be verboten under city rules. ...