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- ↑ "Announcing Art in the Streets". The Curve (MOCA LA). March 9, 2011. Archived from the original on June 22, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
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- ↑ ""Art in The Streets" at MOCA LA". artnet Magazine. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
- ↑ Kennedy, Randy (2012-02-23). "Rammellzee's Work and Reputation Re-emerge". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-04-29.
A bunkerlike, black-lighted re-creation of the Battle Station was one of the most talked-about pieces in "Art in the Streets," a sprawling graffiti survey last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, organized by the museum's director, Jeffrey Deitch, who as a New York dealer had courted Rammellzee for years.
- ↑ Miranda, Carolina A. (2011-06-01). "Art in the Streets". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
- ↑ "Censorship! MOCA Has a BLU Tiger by the Tail". HuffPost . 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Somerstein, Rachel (April 26, 2011). ""Burnt Umbrage: Studies in Anger"". Wired.