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
Photo via Twitter
And from our Q’Stoner reader, photos below:
And a video sent to us by the reader vonvonvoom:
Its a shame that in this day and age ppl still think graffiti is poverty striken holligans destroying propertys!..who are u to judge what is art and what is not..but youll pay $60000 for a stencil of banksy?..but a peice or burner that takes hours sometimes days is a crime?..smh..
NYA – and life goes on, as much as we dont like change it still happens. This is still private property and the artist have no leagal rights to the building or its demise!
Oh no – someone is painting a building that is their private property. How selfish of someone to let artists paint and use his building for decades only to decide to paint it himself one day. Disgusting.
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We hope you feel much better about yourself now that you corrected a spelling error.
dear js I hope all your dreams never come true and you lose everything you’ve ever cared about in life.
P***y
Banal greed. Right.
It’s his building, so he can do whatever he wants with it. He gave you years of free public art, if that’s what you want to call it, so you’ve no right to complain.
As endings go, this one’s pretty noble (from the Wall Street Journal blog): “While the demolition of the buildings that make up 5Pointz won’t begin until early 2014, Mr. Wolkoff said he painted over the graffiti because he did not want the artists to see their work ripped down piece-by-piece and because he wanted to stave off any altercations that may have happened during the demolition.” Are those the actions of a greedy man?
There’s plenty of art inside The Met, last time I checked. And people are still doing graffiti on a daily basis in NY. May they soon tag up your building, so that your humanity can be documented in a way that befits you.
RiddAnce. That’s with an A.
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Maybe the person writing it is interested in property rights?