Yeah, I have the same question. What's the answer?
The black, white, and red graffiti spells the moniker “Acer” in large block letters on the museum’s third level, facing Bowery Street. The graffiti was painted a few feet above artist Glenn Ligon’s installation “A Small Band” (2015), which features the writing “blues blood bruise.”
It's useful publicity, so I'm skeptical.
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Any modest amount of planning, and two to three people could paint that in about 5-10 minutes.
Ooh a cheap electronics store if anyone needs a decent Acer laptop and... maybe sports equipment?
I honestly thought it was an advertisement for a computer company. So. Tag fail.
“…I keep creating and making some good things [for] the people because people really going crazy in the city because of humanitarian catastrophe."
Said Max Kilderov, Ukrainian artist
Inside job.
how much did they pay, to have their name on there? you know, them ?
If the image has the clean, straight lines of an advertising logo does it really qualify as graffiti?
They must have hired the same security cops that were watching Epstein. Of course, we don't know if either job was commissioned.
Living in the city today means living with graffiti, garbage, and people living in the street. Since the people living there keep voting for the same policies, it must be a feature they like and not a bug. There are planes, trains, and buses leaving NYC everyday, and it's not a prison. When Madison was covered in "artwork" during the "peaceful protests", you admired it. I thought your beautiful city had been trashed, but I don't live there so it was none of my business, and I respected that. I respect the right of New Yorkers to live however they like.
Both the graffiti and the commissioned piece are dull and unimaginative.
There is much better street art out there.
https://www.streetartbio.com/artists/blu/
After you figure that one out, figure out how they wired the World Trade Towers for demolition.
Yancey Ward said...
Any modest amount of planning, and two to three people could paint that in about 5-10 minutes.
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with or without stencil?
Maybe a performance piece.
Either way, the graffiti is done in a shoddy manner...
A neat, tidy job but I notice they carelessly moved some of the blocks out of alignment.
Rusty said...
"I honestly thought it was an advertisement for a computer company. So. Tag fail."
How do you know it isn't?
I am more interested in the blues blood bruise. Sounds like the life of a club bouncer.
The excerpt makes reference to "Bowery Street". I've never heard the Bowery called that.
AA: "...The black, white, and red graffiti spells the moniker “Acer” in large block letters on the museum’s third level, facing Bowery Street."
Sadly, an example of why AA (usually ultra particular on the use of language) has evidently lost her standing as being a "true New Yorker":
The Bowery: Is Manhattan’s Edgiest Street Losing its Soul?
PUBLISHED 5:00 AM ET Aug. 27, 2019
'...Every true New Yorker knows, it’s not Bowery Street or Bowery Avenue. It’s the Bowery. This mile-long stretch in Lower Manhattan was home to the city’s original performing arts scene. From vaudeville to punk rock, the Bowery has played host to New York’s edgiest acts. Down on the Bowery, far from the bright lights uptown, the art was bawdy. It was eccentric. At times it was offensive. This was entertainment for the masses, the misfits, and the misunderstood. But with all that’s changed since, has the Bowery lost its artistic
soul?'
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/street-level/2019/08/22/the-bowery--is-manhattan-s-edgiest-street-losing-its-soul-
Simile: The Bronx The Netherlands, The Lebanon, The Gambia. (The American press now usually drops the "the" for the last two.)
"Living in the city today means living with graffiti, garbage, and people living in the street. Since the people living there keep voting for the same policies, it must be a feature they like and not a bug. There are planes, trains, and buses leaving NYC everyday, and it's not a prison. When Madison was covered in "artwork" during the "peaceful protests", you admired it. I thought your beautiful city had been trashed, but I don't live there so it was none of my business, and I respected that. I respect the right of New Yorkers to live however they like."
NYC today is a sanitized Disneyland compared to the period from the 70s through mid-90s. The Bowery, where this museum sits, was, for decades, the default destination for drunks and addicts of all types, and it was normal to see groups of them sleeping (or passed out) on the sidewalk.
There's a guy jaywalking in the lower right corner.
Broken windows, man.
Bunkypotatohead said...
There's a guy jaywalking in the lower right corner.
Broken windows, man.
If you have ever spent any time in The City, Bunkster, then you know that there is no such thing as "jaywalking." Well, crossing a street outside of a crosswalk or against a light in the city is against the law and punishable with a $250 fine but no self-respecting New Yawker pays any attention. No traffic coming, so cross the street, wins every time.
So how many of these urbanites would you expect to understand what the broken window theory is?
StephenFearby said...
AA: "...The black, white, and red graffiti spells the moniker “Acer” in large block letters on the museum’s third level, facing Bowery Street."
Sadly, an example of why AA (usually ultra particular on the use of language) has evidently lost her standing as being a "true New Yorker":
The Bowery: Is Manhattan’s Edgiest Street Losing its Soul?
Someone forgot to tell the author of Acer Graffiti story, Hakim Bishara, who just happens to spend his life surrounded by 18.8 million people all bunched into the NYC metro area, that there is no street named Bowery in the city. Some of residents of this Manhattan borough neighborhood own up to being Boweryites but there is confusion because the defined neighborhood roughly overlaps an area known as Little Australia. So "G'Day Mates" - I am going to bed.
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