A federal judge awarded 21 artists a whopping $6.7 million Monday for a developer’s decision to destroy revered works at the famed 5 Pointz art mecca in Queens. 5 Pointz in Long Island City on May 5, ...
Even Banksy couldn’t save this graffiti landmark. Furious street art fans were in mourning Tuesday after the owners of 5 Pointz had the graffiti Mecca in Long Island City whitewashed overnight.
Nicole Gagne doesn’t remember the fall itself, or any of the month that followed. She spent almost all of it in a hospital bed, pumped full of a painkiller that had the happy side effect of causing ...
A jury is set to decide whether works at the onetime graffiti mecca 5 Pointz count as federally-protected art — and if a real estate developer needs to pay up for their destruction. After about three ...
It's the closest thing the world has to a graffiti museum. Standing in the loading docks at the center of a sprawling complex of disused warehouses in Long Island City, visitors can see a rotating ...
With the wind blowing, people huddled in circles to keep their candles from going out. The free floaters mostly stayed against the wall; they were scrawling on the blank posters 5 Pointz volunteers ...
Any fan of street art or graffiti understands the importance of 5 Pointz in the global art narrative, but we'll give you a little rundown if you need a reminder: The space was first established as the ...
Photographer Dock Ellis (a pseudonym) recently visited the corpse of 5 Pointz and captured the nascent stages of "Gentrification In Progress." Here is what he saw. For a few weeks there have been ...
Back in September, Inhabitat took a tour of Long Island City’s art and cultural centers, which are part of the 72 Hour Urban Action initiative to save LIC from expanding gentrification through ...
The future of 5 Pointz might now be measured in weeks. A federal court in Brooklyn ruled Tuesday against an injunction that would have stopped the demolition of the graffiti and street art center in ...
Defiant street artists have retagged the whitewashed walls of 5Pointz to protest the graffiti mecca’s impending destruction. “You can’t whitewash my city” and “Art is not dead” were among the new ...
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