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So just where was artist Yoshimoto Nara tossing back a few before his arrest in February? Prior to getting arrested for drawing some smiley face graffiti on the L platform, he was at Niagara bar in the East Village. He adorned the place with original artwork on the walls there, too, but the owners didn't try to arrest him, instead they put it under plexiglass to preserve it.
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Please it's graffiti, not art. Graphic design at best.
Okay, people are paying how much for art by this guy? Looks no better than stuff proud parents stick on front of refrigerators all over the country.
it's not graffiti and it's definitely not art, it's like a freaking little kid's goofy scribbles in elementary school.
Consider these as "while on the telephone" doodles to his actual major pieces. He's not my favorite, but he is a highly respected (and commercialized) artist.
mid life crisis
if and when the bar closes they can chip away the wall and sell those for a couple dimes i'm sure.
Man, you guys just don't understand the soul of visual art. Stop hating philistines.
This is one japanese export that should have disappeared last quarter.
He wont be putting Durer or J. M. W. Turner out of business soon.
Respected? Googling him, his finished work isn't much better.
As for [7] below, if this is the "soul of visual art," I'm glad to be a philistine. Jorge Colombo, noted in a Gothamist story only yesterday, is much more of an artist.
It's signage. At least two of them appear to be signs for the Boy's and Girl's rooms. Yes? No?
The other one I don't know about.