Recently noted that I was surprised by the amount of Graffiti in Venice. Did a little searching and found this post - Strange Geographies: Venetian Graffiti (30 May 2010) - by Ransom Riggs where he writes:
One thing that surprised me about Venice was that graffiti was everywhere. There’s almost as much art on the streets as there was in churches and museums [..] once I stopped being offended I started being fascinated. While the oil-and-canvas masterworks hanging in the city’s galleries may reflect of Venice the Renaissance era, it’s what’s painted on the outside of the museum wall that reflects what Venetians — at least the ones wielding cans of spray-paint — are thinking now.
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