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BTM Wrote over Choe's Bowery Wall, by dreadnatty on Jun 13, 2017 3:30:36 GMT 1, David Choe’s Controversial Bowery Mural Tagged with Giant Letters
The graffiti crew Big Time Mafia has scrawled its initials across Choe’s controversial Lower East Side mural, completed less than a week ago.
The massive mural David Choe painted on the high-profile wall on the corner of Houston Street and Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has been defaced, less than a week after the artist finished painting it. As Bowery Boogie first reported, the piece now has the letters “BTM” scrawled across its entirety, indicating that the crew of Big Time Mafia had paid it a visit with a very serious agenda.
Choe’s mural has been the center of controversy over the past week, as he has a disturbing history of sexual assault that evidently, and tellingly, hasn’t crippled his career. Hyperallergic’s Caroline Caldwell recently described this past as well as Choe’s flippant attitude toward sexual assault, which he once dismissed as “bad storytelling in the style of douche.”
It’s unclear whether BTM’s tag is an expression of solidarity with those protesting against what they as a normalization of rape culture — signed off on by the curators of the wall, Goldman Global Arts, the creative offshoot of Goldman Properties. The massive, black letters may be unrelated, standing as an expression of general resentment toward Choe. (The Bowery wall has long been a popular target for vandals and graffiti writers.)
hyperallergic.com/384908/david-choes-controversial-bowery-mural-tagged-with-giant-letters/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Hyperallergic&utm_content=David+Choe%27s+Controversial+Bowery+Mural+Tagged+with+Giant+Letters
David Choe’s Controversial Bowery Mural Tagged with Giant Letters The graffiti crew Big Time Mafia has scrawled its initials across Choe’s controversial Lower East Side mural, completed less than a week ago. The massive mural David Choe painted on the high-profile wall on the corner of Houston Street and Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has been defaced, less than a week after the artist finished painting it. As Bowery Boogie first reported, the piece now has the letters “BTM” scrawled across its entirety, indicating that the crew of Big Time Mafia had paid it a visit with a very serious agenda. Choe’s mural has been the center of controversy over the past week, as he has a disturbing history of sexual assault that evidently, and tellingly, hasn’t crippled his career. Hyperallergic’s Caroline Caldwell recently described this past as well as Choe’s flippant attitude toward sexual assault, which he once dismissed as “bad storytelling in the style of douche.” It’s unclear whether BTM’s tag is an expression of solidarity with those protesting against what they as a normalization of rape culture — signed off on by the curators of the wall, Goldman Global Arts, the creative offshoot of Goldman Properties. The massive, black letters may be unrelated, standing as an expression of general resentment toward Choe. (The Bowery wall has long been a popular target for vandals and graffiti writers.) hyperallergic.com/384908/david-choes-controversial-bowery-mural-tagged-with-giant-letters/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Hyperallergic&utm_content=David+Choe%27s+Controversial+Bowery+Mural+Tagged+with+Giant+Letters |
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