Hrag Vartanian

Critic, Curator, Editor-in-chief & Co-founder of Hyperallergic

Williamsburg Developers Like Street Art…Huh?

Veken spotted this giant panel a few days ago at N9th & Driggs and fantasized about taking it down.

Today, he walked by and saw the developer (or who he assures me definitely looked like the developer) ripping it down with 5 construction workers decked out in orange vests and the whole 9 yards.

Veken approached the men and asked if he could have it. The developer guy said no, looked a little shifty and then explained he was going to put it back up! Veken didn’t really buy the story.

Now…just a few minutes ago, Veken reports that the workers put it back up and did a better job of attaching it to the barrier and even moved it one panel over (here is a detail of what it looked like before).

Is this an ad? Was that the artist masquerading as the developer with 5 construction dudes? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!?!?

Something’s fishy in Billyburg!

7 responses to “Williamsburg Developers Like Street Art…Huh?”

  1. Veken Gueyikian — The developer must have actually liked the art

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  4. jmr Avatar
    jmr

    i’m not sure what happened either. i put it up one sunday morning, and when i came back a few days later to shoot it, it had been moved. then it was just taken down. hopefully someone has it somewhere and it didn’t get dumpstered.

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    hv

    My question is, why did they take it down and put it back up? And then take it down again?

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  6. hv Avatar
    hv

    Also Veken offered to take it if they didn’t want it but they said no.

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  7. jmr Avatar
    jmr

    beats me. maybe someone else just took it. i use one-way screws so it has to be pried off, which it was. they re-posted it with regular screws.

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