The facade of a New York City building where Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked at the time of his death has been mysteriously whitewashed:
For Decades, Graffiti Writers Paid Tribute to Basquiat by Tagging the Artist’s Former Home. Now, It Has Been Mysteriously Whitewashed
The facade of a New York City building where Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked at the time of his death has been unceremoniously whitewashed, erasing scores of tributes left by fellow artists. Since then, the building, located at 57 Great Jones Street, has become a kind of ad-hoc memorial to the late artist as graffitists pilgrimage to the site to inscribe eulogies in his name. One example featured the dates of Basquiat’s birth and death, headstone-style, accompanied by his signature crown graphic. Another recreated the artist’s silhouette in the likeness of the statue of liberty. In 2016, theon the structure, commemorating its significance.
“Same Old Gallery,” inviting 1970s graffiti writers to tag both the interior and exterior of the space. Among them was Al Diaz, a cultish downtown artist who co-created the SAMO tag withcontributed his own Basquiat homage to 57 Great Jones Street using paint to stylize the building’s arched windows as spray cans and adding the phrase “LET US SPRAY” in large letters on the second floor.
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