Cool Grafitti/Art Exhibit

The line outside 11 Spring Street on Saturday

An inside view

Before catching the fracas at the Garden last night I checked out this, um...art happening(?) on Spring St. The abridged back story goes as follows: Old building in = longstanding, well-known worldwide grafitti/art canvass. Building to be converted into luxury condos. Art world mourns. New owners not total dicks. See blurb from NYT below for rest of story...

The group decided that the best salute would be to stage one last, thoroughly legal, art-making hurrah, inviting some of the best-known graffiti and street artists in the world, many of whose work already loomed large on the outside of the building, to take over the inside and completely cover five floors, 30,000 square feet of brick wall space, with work. The art would then stay up only for a few days before the contractors moved in with drywall to cover up the interior works and pressure hoses to erase those on the outside.

In other words, not destroying the art inside but, rather, vacuum-sealing it like a time capsule inside the drywall of luxury condos. The line to get in stretched around three corners and lasted over 2 hours but the art inside and out was really cool. Crazy to think it was all done in just a few days...

Some of the rest of my photos are below. You can also find more photos from other people here. Full New York Times story available here also.

Quato Lives

Oxy Cottontail

What the Jolly Green Giant's dreams look like

You see straight up racist that sucka was, simple and plain...

Ghost Che far away

Ghost Che near - the coolest

Always fresh

More outside(r) art

Rock out with your walk out

Pulp wall art

I got nothing on this

Totally creepier in person

Rubberband art with artist

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