BREAKING: 5Pointz Warehouse Painted White by the Wolkoffs
This morning, the 5Pointz Twitter feed reports the latest crazy news in the crazy saga of 5Pointz. The building owners Jerry and David Wolkoff painted the building white last night with police protection. Another Tweet notes that the 5Pointz artists almost got arrested. We will update this post with more photos as they become available…
This morning, the 5Pointz Twitter feed reports the latest crazy news in the crazy saga of 5Pointz. The building owners Jerry and David Wolkoff painted the building white last night with police protection. Another Tweet notes that the 5Pointz artists almost got arrested. We will update this post with more photos as they become available — after the jump, see another shot of the artwork that’s left on the back wall. If you snap any pictures yourself please send them directly to emily@brownstoner.com.
The white-out comes after a judge denied the artists a permanent injunction to stop demolition. In response, the artists held a rally this weekend. They planned to form a human chain around the building come demolition day, which is expected before the end of the year.
As this Twitter user says, “All you #7train riders this morning are in for a bleak look as you pass #5pointz this morning. Its now an ugly hospital white.” One more photo after the jump… UPDATE: Many more photos of the paint job in question after the jump, including five photos from one reader’s commute this morning and video taken from the train.
Photo by jeffcarroll
Photo by jeffcarroll
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Photo via Twitter
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Photo via Twitter
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And from our Q’Stoner reader, photos below:
And a video sent to us by the reader vonvonvoom:
Who gives a shit…it looked like crap anyway.
if the landlord was really greedy, they could tear the building down carefully (instead of the planned demo in 2014) and sell each piece.
The sad reality is that if the building is privately owned property (which it is) the owner has the right to do whatever he/she wants. Putting the debate of whether or not graffiti is considered a “real” art form aside – the artists should be grateful that he allowed them to use his building for so long…if they wanted something that lasts longer they should go buy some canvases and paint on those instead. The owner is just taking back what is rightfully his and preparing for what is to come in 2014.
@SD — Quote “If something needs to be done under the cover of darkness, it’s probably not the right thing to do”
Poetic justice I say: In the cover of darkness the “art” was painted over in much the same way the “art” originated.
Are you aware of John Lennon’s Bentley or Janis Joplin’s Porsche? Both were ‘painted over’ by their subsequent owner’s hiding the original and unique artwork underneath. If the claim of ‘private property’ is your sole your defense of this destruction of art then you have no soul and should simply kill yourself now.
Gee, I wonder why you signed in as ‘anonymous’. Is it that you have no pride in your commentary? Are you a fool or a coward? My vote is both.
I have some Picasso’s that maybe you’d like stripped back down to the original canvas. Perhaps we can erase every tape of Beatle music and destroy 50% of the films made before 1950…oops. That’s already happened. Failure to manage, protect and store those filmic artworks properly meant they deteriorated and died.
If you don’t think that art is just as important to preserve as food and civility then you suffer a horrible imbalance. And now you exposed your insensitivity and ignorance in a public forum.
I guess it’s a good thing that it’s anonymous, right?
You obviously don’t understand the benefits this kind of art has on people….. sure you hate it…. but for the countless others who are inspired by it to make the city a brighter place and not turn it into a homogenized landscape this is a call to arms..
Every generation needs inspiring, who are we to deny them such pleasures by being petty, enforcing our ideas and values like aesthetic purity, only serves to alienate and divide our communities even further.
So… they start making their art elsewhere. Why is this an issue? Surely there are some other derelict buildings in this city.
Private property.