A temporary and very colorful commemorative plaque for Jean-Michel Basquiat outside 57 Great Jones St. between the Bowery and Lafayette. Art by @modomatic.
It's a tough to figure out whether these plaques and whatnot get stolen for scrap value or for the "cool" "edgy" factor. So this should be an interesting test.
There may very well be some "art" collectors out there who would derive vicarious"pride of place" for posessing something which once, posthumously, hung on Basquiat's former residence. Even if they can't show it to anyone.
It's about "context". A "Banksy" whatnot isn't worth anything unless one can afford to tear down the entire wall It's painted on. Some of us will just have to live with the fond memories of having been graced to witness. As I felt with the Keith Haring works in the subway during the 1980s.
On that note. What has become of the cheerful "Star Girl" stuff from a few years back?
I was a student in France, both in the south and in Paris for about a year.
I visited the famous <> cemetery a few times. I don't personally believe in an "afterlife" but one thing I noticed there which ticked me off was all the hoopla around Jim Morrison's grave.
Anyone who had the misfortune of dying a hundred years before he was born had to unknowingly suffer the indignity of having their tombs defaced with spray painted and crayon and magic marker pointing towards Jim's grave.
Well, if you read his autobiography. He used to go to his local library and piss on books. A real scholar, he was!
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It's a tough to figure out whether these plaques and whatnot get stolen for scrap value or for the "cool" "edgy" factor. So this should be an interesting test.
There may very well be some "art" collectors out there who would derive vicarious"pride of place" for posessing something which once, posthumously, hung on Basquiat's former residence. Even if they can't show it to anyone.
Well, sometimes they just want to have things hanging in their apartments that will get them laid.
Ayep!
It's about "context". A "Banksy" whatnot isn't worth anything unless one can afford to tear down the entire wall It's painted on. Some of us will just have to live with the fond memories of having been graced to witness. As I felt with the Keith Haring works in the subway during the 1980s.
On that note. What has become of the cheerful "Star Girl" stuff from a few years back?
I was a student in France, both in the south and in Paris for about a year.
I visited the famous <> cemetery a few times. I don't personally believe in an "afterlife" but one thing I noticed there which ticked me off was all the hoopla around Jim Morrison's grave.
Anyone who had the misfortune of dying a hundred years before he was born had to unknowingly suffer the indignity of having their tombs defaced with spray painted and crayon and magic marker pointing towards Jim's grave.
Well, if you read his autobiography. He used to go to his local library and piss on books. A real scholar, he was!
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