Oaxaca's radical street artists won't be muzzled
A typically pointed work by Oaxaca artist Yescka “Oh that’s pretty. What a nice combination of colors.” That is Yescka, a prominent Oaxaca City graffiti artist, dismissing with a mirthless chuckle street art he considers divorced from the political and/or social context in which it’s made. It’s a judgment that neatly sums up the aesthetic stance of this increasingly visible state capital’s cadre of sprayers and stencilers and splatters, one that can be traced back – at least