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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And from our Q’Stoner reader, photos below:
And a video sent to us by the reader vonvonvoom:
If this comment section is representative of this blog’s readership, it may be time for me to stop reading. The trolls are really leaping out of the woodwork to dance on 5Pointz’s grave. Lovely.
It’s hard to believe this this is a vein cut from the city skyline. 🙁
Something I’m unclear about is why they had to paint over it if they are only going to demolish it? What’s the reason behind the buffing?
They painted over it because they are not going to Demolish it until 2014 (which is soon) but supposedly the owner of the building did it so that the artists work wouldn’t be destroyed like that, but also so it wouldn’t cause issues during the demolition, people were going to protest etc, it could be dangerous if artists where there protesting the demolition because they wanted to see their art saved…
that’s probably a good thing! That building looked trashy, and I would hardly consider people writing their names in fancy fonts and colors on the side of a building art… it’s just glorified gangster tagging at best.
awesome
js I fully agree with you. This is a case of someone doing whatever they want with something they own; nothing more. There are more pressing issues at stake than having a borrowed canvas returned.
I love you 🙂
“You’ve” corrected.
What’s wrong with these people!?