The new Barry McGee mural wasn’t even alive for fifteen hours before being modified last night. Guess the owners of 294 Bowery weren’t too happy with his coloring outside the lines, as it were.
At around 6:15 pm yesterday, two caretakers in a fully-extended cherry picker erased the extraneous doodles. This fresh batch of work caught the eye of numerous passing pedestrians, many of whom stopped for photo ops. The above-mural scrawls were quite popular during their short run, though. Boogie reader T.E.V.B. said it best: “If all the tags were only within the confines of the mural space, it might have portrayed different types of messages, e.g. the control of public space for street/graffiti art.” McGee tested the man, but lost the battle.
Great coverage, BB. The irony in all this…love it. It’ll be interesting now to view this piece and space – this “pure”, “controlled”, “officially sanctioned/approved” rectangle mural of tags, with nothing outside the lines. Might it begin to feel…claustrophobic? Whatever the case, TWIST killed it. WIN. Yes, he may have lost this battle, but he’s winning the war…
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As of this morning, the outside-the-lines tags aren’t 100% removed, only those above the mural itself. There’s a small batch close to Billy’s near the ground. Maybe they “overlooked.”
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Barry McGee Tags Removed from Graffiti Wall
The new Barry McGee mural wasn’t even alive for fifteen hours before being modified last night. Guess the owners of 294 Bowery weren’t too happy with his coloring outside the lines, as it were.
At around 6:15 pm yesterday, two caretakers in a fully-extended cherry picker erased the extraneous doodles. This fresh batch of work caught the eye of numerous passing pedestrians, many of whom stopped for photo ops. The above-mural scrawls were quite popular during their short run, though. Boogie reader T.E.V.B. said it best: “If all the tags were only within the confines of the mural space, it might have portrayed different types of messages, e.g. the control of public space for street/graffiti art.” McGee tested the man, but lost the battle.