Monday, August 30, 2010

Deitch Wall now with a TWIST

As we noted last Thursday, the Deitch Wall on Houston and The Bowery would soon be home to work by Barry McGee (aka Twist)... As Animal New York reports (via BoweryBoogie), Twist and company began tagging the wall after midnight...

Here it is now...




Per Animal:

"TWIST and company finished the mural that is likely to breed outrage, anarchy and cliché news narratives questioning whether graffiti is art."

Their headline: "Twist's Completed Masterpiece."

Agreed!
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM

    Looks like shit, at least Fairey had something to look at.

    "OMG look at me I write my name on walls everywhere!"

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  2. T.E.V.B.August 30, 2010 at 2:33 PM

    Disagree. This looks awesome.

    Re-posting my comment on Bowery Boogie:

    Wild nice. Besides just looking damn cool, i like how this is a big "fuck you" to graffiti haters. I love how they went "outside the lines" - it'll be interesting to see how long those tags (the ones outside the "official" mural space) stay up. If all the tags were only within the confines of the mural space, it might have portrayed different types of messages (unintentionally or intentionally), eg the control of public space for street/graffiti art, etc. I like it as is, but i wonder if Barry McGee has more in store?

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  3. Bowery BoogieAugust 30, 2010 at 3:50 PM

    it'll be interesting to see how this one gets defaced...

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  4. WBAugust 30, 2010 at 3:53 PM

    This is great. You knew Twist was going to do something awesome with the space. It's a nice counterpoint to Fairey's artvertisement.

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  5. T.E.V.B.August 30, 2010 at 4:51 PM

    Bowery Boogie, you know, I don't think this piece will get defaced. McGee gets way more respect than Fairey (deserverdly), so i predict the wall will stay pretty clean for a while (the same way Os Gemeos did). Guess we'll wait and see...

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  6. T.E.V.B.August 30, 2010 at 4:59 PM

    Sorry to keep posting, but here's a nice set of photos of McGee et al in action, along with some hilarious real-time(?) text/tweet-type messages projected on the wall above them as they worked:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/23173237@N02/4940981014/in/photostream/

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  7. EV GrieveAugust 30, 2010 at 5:07 PM

    Thanks for this, T.E.V.B. ... I think people will leave this wall alone too...

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  8. AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 5:28 PM

    "OMG look at me I write my name on walls everywhere!"

    That's pretty much what graffiti is.

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  9. AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 5:47 PM

    Barry, is a legend, I halfway believe he threw up a bunch of tags as a middle finger to the critics who weren't feeling his newer art in San Diego. Had he done his old twisted screw piece, it would be a wrap.

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  10. AnonymousAugust 30, 2010 at 6:37 PM

    No, that's what "tagging" is. It's the corniest bullshit. Real graff - like people making pieces, blockbusters, ill shit - that's dope. Scribbling your name everywhere is like a fuckin 12 year old piece of trash. OMG look I sprayed my name on a wall. Fuck outta here.

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  11. AnonymousAugust 31, 2010 at 6:41 PM

    Spraying your name on a wall was the first form of tagging, look at DONDI, COCO, TRACY, STAY HIGH, etc. and while fill ins and pieces are pretty and everything real writers still get up. If you only want to see pristine blockbusters that basically have to be legal to be done you should move to europe.

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  12. AnonymousAugust 31, 2010 at 6:43 PM

    I also like how your language has gotten more "street" since you started to pretend to know about graff

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  13. EV GrieveAugust 31, 2010 at 6:47 PM

    Word, homey! I've been watching Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice over and over.

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