Last year, the street art community suffered a great loss when developers unexpectedly whitewashed New York City's well-known graffiti mecca, 5 Pointz. Artists and curators had been battling property owners Jerry and David Wolkoff over the fate of the 200,000-square-foot complex, instigating efforts to get a court injunction against the building's possible demolition. However, their petitions failed and the Wolkoffs responded by painting over the facade of 5 Pointz in November of 2013, destroying decades of street art history.~ www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/10/5-pointz-whitewash_n_51...
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New York's Graffiti Mecca, 5Pointz, Was Whitewashed Overnight
It was a reversal of traditional roles: Painters contracted by the owners of an unoccupied building in Queens, New York, worked under the cover of night Tuesday morning to white wash years of graffiti that had turned 5Pointz into a street art mecca.
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It was a reversal of traditional roles: Painters contracted by the owners of an unoccupied building in Queens, New York, worked under the cover of night Tuesday morning to white wash years of graffiti that had turned 5Pointz into a street art mecca.
~ www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/19/246208152/new-yor...
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5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. is an outdoor art exhibit space in Long Island City, New York, considered to be the world’s premiere “graffiti Mecca,” where aerosol artists from around the globe paint colorful pieces on the walls of a 200,000-square-foot factory building.
The name 5Pointz signifies the five boroughs coming together as one but, because of its reputation as an epicenter of the graffiti scene, the industrial complex has actually united aerosol artists from across the world. Legendary writers from Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, and all over the United States have painted on the building walls, including Stay High 149, Tracy 168, Cope2, Part, and Tats Cru.
Over the past decade, the striking, graffiti-covered warehouse has attracted several hip-hop and R&B stars, including Doug E. Fresh, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Kaz, Mobb Deep, Rahzel, DJ JS-1, Boot Camp Clik, Joan Jett, and Joss Stone.
On any given day, 5Pointz visitors can expect to find prominent artists, musicians, deejays, Emcees (rappers), and B-boys (break dancers) on site, in addition to filmmakers, photographers, and entire tour buses full of admirers soaking in the more than 350 Technicolor murals.
The gallery curator is graffiti veteran Jonathan Cohen, best known by his signature tag, “Meres One.” His goal is to convert the five-story, block-long industrial complex at Jackson Avenue and Davis Street, formerly the Phun Phactory, into a graffiti art museum.~ 5ptz.com/about/
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An iconic Long Island City building that has served as a legal canvas for graffiti artists for more than a decade is now one step closer to the wrecking ball.
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall announced Wednesday that she supports the plan to tear down the former water meter factory, which houses the 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, to create room for a pair of luxury residential towers.
Her recommendation came after the owners of the site, Jerry and David Wolkoff, agreed to create 75 units of affordable housing for seniors, veterans and residents of northwestern Queens. There will be about 1,000 apartments total.
The Wolkoffs also promised to create 20 artist studios, up from five.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/queens-borough-presid...
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