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Art lovers move graffiti artist's work [Detroit]
UPI ^
| May 15, 2010
| staff reporter
Posted on 05/15/2010 11:25:51 PM PDT by Daffynition
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:29:20 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: Daffynition
Sure. Little hoodie remembers when it was all trees.
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:30:31 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Daffynition
During a recent visit to the Motor City, the artist known as Banksy, an international art world celebrity, secretly stenciled a painting of a boy holding a can of red paint on the wall of the crumbling 3.5-million-square-foot Packard plant. The caption on the work read: "I remember when all this was trees." With the decay and deurbaniazation of Detroit, within a generation you could carve on one of the trees growing there "I remember when this was a factory".
"And beyond legality, who does the wall really belong to, and now does the art belong to the gallery? To everybody? To nobody? We're operating in this space where there's this lawlessness that opens up possibilities that would be harder to encounter in other cities."
Uh, maybe the title holder of the land and what is left of the building? To the person or company which has been paying property tax on it? The those who would have been held legally liable if a loose brick had fallen off and hit Bansky on the head? Your vandalism is not a claim to my property.
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:31:28 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
To: Daffynition
Hey. Only good thing I’ve read about Detroit, a burgeoning spirit of the arts. Let them have their art.
Like the mouse. Beautifully rendered.
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:34:05 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Daffynition
A bit of graffiti? A mere bagatelle! The 3.5 million square foot Packard plant is the art work that belongs to world and must be preserved in it's present condition for future generations.
Yeah, that sounds nuts but no more so than does a legal wrangle over some minor and mediocre art work.
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:35:45 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Daffynition
So now they have vandalized a property they don’t own.
Oh wait, it Detroit, thats expected to happen to every building.
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:48:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: KarlInOhio
With the decay and deurbaniazation of Detroit, within a generation you could carve on one of the trees growing there "I remember when this was a factory".So true. lol.
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:49:06 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: count-your-change
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:50:55 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: KarlInOhio; Admin Moderator
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posted on
05/15/2010 11:59:24 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: GeronL
And yarn bombing is wrong also?
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posted on
05/16/2010 12:02:22 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: BradyLS
That was my first thought too. The little hoodie would have no recollection of a thriving Detroit. His only recollection would be of a decaying Detroit which has spawned many large tracks of green spaces with lots of trees where there were once factories and housing.
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posted on
05/16/2010 12:07:34 AM PDT
by
BBell
To: BradyLS
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posted on
05/16/2010 12:08:12 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: BBell; BradyLS
Banksy is a Brit. Many consider his work to transcend graffiti. I am no judge of that. Others think he is a sell-out to commercialism, b/c the new film about him, Exit Through The Gift Shop, was showing in Detroit, when the images showed up.
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posted on
05/16/2010 12:14:43 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: Daffynition
I love the old Packards, sedate luxury and built like tanks. ...deep sighs...
Taking down the old building would provide employment for about half of the unemployed in Detroit.
Just an idea since there is so much that needs to be done there and so many idle hands that could be put to work.
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posted on
05/16/2010 12:45:18 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
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posted on
05/16/2010 1:07:26 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Play it, Sam, for old times' sake, play 'As Time Goes By'.")
To: Daffynition
yo [put some cap/mpc up in this sis
To: Daffynition
Banksy is a Brit. Many consider his work to transcend graffiti.I can see that. My beef with it is that it requires people to put up with it if other folks think that they're too plebeian to understand it. And it just gives license to the hoods to continue tagging their turf.
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posted on
05/16/2010 1:32:19 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: KarlInOhio; reagan_fanatic; a real Sheila; 50mm; Lizavetta; Roscoe Karns; edzo4; Netizen; ...
I remember when this use to be a factory.
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posted on
05/16/2010 1:40:42 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
To: Daffynition
Simple answer to their dilemma. Knock down the wall with the graffiti on it and celebrate.
These people glorifying the destruction caused by graffiti need to volunteer their faces as graffiti murals.
Millions upon millions of dollars is wasted on graffiti abatement. Where are the adults in this world?
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