Sace Tribute Goes Up On Houston Street

This morning, the TWIST-Barry McGee wall on Houston Street was covered up by a tribute to SACE. SACE was the tag used by the artist Dash Snow, who died last year, while he was part of the IRAK crew (he also went by SACER). Street art experts we spoke to think that ADEK, who tagged the Domino Sugar Factory earlier this year, was behind the tribute. Graffiti photographer Martha Cooper calls it a "grand finale" to the TWIST piece, which replaced Shepard Fairey's work.

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on November 23, 2010 2:22 PM

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BigUps

Graffiti, before the spelling Nazis get on my ass.

BigUps

I love graffti but that is ugly.

Wza

Buffed.

http://www.12ozprophet.com/index.php/martha_cooper/entry/going...going...gone/

theboneranger

mr. cash flow isnt really an example of anything worthwhile. artful graffiti doesnt come from rich white dudes who wear fedoras - so don't mind this, mr. jpreditor.

dude sounds downright elderly.

penischrist

To be fair, the piece was originally titled "Tribute to the unknown biter"

theboneranger

i didnt notice that.. lol, and aptly so..

k3vin

Also, normal people and graff writers don't see graffiti as art. Only artists and curators see it as art (I guess that's all that matters). If normal people and writers saw it as art it would probably disappear.

k3vin

You have to be over 65 if you thought that was clever. Weird combining Obama communists into a single word and then somehow tying it to a random article. This article was about a commissioned wall and an unusual choice of painting. However, here are other articles you can try if you want to use obamunists (should really be obammunists, but hey your word):

Only obamunists yell at dudes when they pull their penises out on the subway.

People that let the TSA feel their junk are obamunists.

People that use satiric misspellings are obamunists.

jpeditor

"This article was about a commissioned wall and an unusual choice of painting."

"unusual choice of painting. "

MWU-HA-HA-HA.

Durer: art

Michaelangelo: art

Picasso: art

Pollock: art

"street art": GARBAGE designed to further the continual slide of western culture into the TOILET.

see: Alinsky and OBAMMUNISM

(2 "ms", happy now, gasbag?)

PS - I am under 65 and have been looking at and participating in the NY art scene on and off for THIRTY FREAKING years, so shut your pompous pie hole and go back to reading your howard zinn and your dope smoking at Cooper Union or SVA or wherever...

jpeditor

Graffitti = "art" for obamunists.

ProcedureTurn

dash snow was an untalented drug addict. period. dont let his money and hipster style fool you. his family bought his way into the art world like the whitney binennial. he was no downtown legend. just a grimy rich kid who acted like he was street legit. no graff skills either. Just loads of cash in his pockets.

A memorial for this guy is laughable. LAUGHABLE!!! HAHAHAHA

theboneranger

oh yeah, dash SNOW... its that trustfund baby son of the rich fake hipster dude who contributed nothing but adding on to the hanger-on d*ck sucka culture that only knows how to reference the past without really contributing anything new to the present.. oh yeah that guy

k3vin

Looks so much worse. Dash had way better style than that. This isn't doing him justice. Would Dash have really been happy with this? This isn't a tribute. People are going to think Sacer would have done this. ADEK has really tried to claim this wall twice now and both times he has people saying it looked better before. This is probably why he's starting to get crossed out.