Gothamist: Dan Witz Adorns "Ugly New Buildings"

robingee

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:25:05 -0500

Dan Witz is amazing! This is what street art should be.

La Leone

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:01:29 -0500

It's really sad these pieces garned such angry comments. Why does this even bother you @ all, and why all the hostility? They are not even permanent. Are you threatened by people who create something that's even mildly entertaining and put it out there, and thereby create a conversation piece? Worried you'll never be a conversation piece, just someone motoring through your boring life? Not impacting anyone or anything? Keep your wits about you, Dan Witz. ;)There are a lot of uncreative assholes out there...and they are apparently quite adamant about expressing this! You don't see us creative types demanding that you all quit being so boring and wishing you would do something interesting, clever and entertaining YOURSELF, do you??

yoplay

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:52:53 -0500

explain to me what real art is? crap that is meant to be hung on sanctioned gallery walls? Approved by critics? The people that hang int he galleries DO NOT have insight into what's happening, they enjoy throwing parties, and doing interviews for the nytimes. I don't like all street art or graffiti pieces, but a lot of the good public art comments on the streets.

Spiritof76

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:41:31 -0500

I don't think Jen Carlson's heart is really into this. She's just covering it because Jake doesn't want to take the heat here anymore and she has to do whatever the boss says. Jake still runs his streetsy.com site, "All graffiti, all the time."

eyekantspel

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:12:57 -0500

i agree w bklynd 100%

bklynd

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:08:17 -0500

Personally, I'd draw a line between this and some of the other shit Carlson has glamorized. It's somewhat clever, appealing to look at, took some skill to produce, and is probably not that expensive to remove. Witz's obsession with condos is somewhat twatty but not a huge problem. It's too bad that Carlson & Dobkin cannot distinguish between this and a total disgrace like the fire extinguisher guy, or get over their obsession with "street art" and cover some real art.

FART SIMSON

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:41:24 -0500

A piece of ART! An articulate expression yet simple and a new thing for the eye... I wish I could d something like that in my own country.

FART SIMSON

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:39:11 -0500

A piece of ART! An articulate expression yet simple and a new thing for the eye... I wish I could d something like that in my own country.

ixvnyc

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:25:04 -0500

SimonLok, Spiritof76, We get it. You are losers. Go cry where someone cares.

SimonLok

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:18:58 -0500

Why are there all these articles on Gothamist promoting vandalism and graffiti? It's really sickening.

nonumentalart

Sat, 31 May 2008 21:51:00 -0500

ya what is the medium? sculpture or photograph?

Gotham City Insider Wuz Here

Sat, 31 May 2008 18:13:34 -0500

What is the medium? color copied paper & wheatpaste?

Spiritof76

Sat, 31 May 2008 18:04:45 -0500

Personally, I can't say I like the new modern architecture very much, it's so arrogantly disconnected with the neighborhood that it's just plain bizarre So because he doesn't like them, he arrogantly "decorates" them the way he wants. Drop dead, Witz. I want to see a real-life version of an old comic strip. Can't remember what strip it was. A graffiti writer has almost finished his spray-painting on a wall. It says something like "The end is nea..." The word trails off because he's lying dead on the ground with a knife in his back. And it's extremely disappointing to see Jen Carlson glamorizing vandalism yet again.

ladywarfield

Sat, 31 May 2008 17:57:06 -0500

I would be interested to know where Mr Witz grew up. I was born and raised in Manhattan and currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and actually rent an apartment in a building he has decorated. I very much enjoy the piece. That being said, if you look into the not too distant past of this very neighborhood, you will find a steady stream of different waves of immigrants from many areas of the world (where I live in South Williamsburg was very Irish and Eastern European 100 years ago). Imagine if we all had to live in the first buildings that were ever built on this land after white settlers arrived?