• By Hamilton Nolan
    Mar 12, 2009 4:44 PM 5,188
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    NYC's War on Vandalism Must End If We Are to Have Good Vandalism
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    Fancy Artist Can Draw Wherever

    Millionaire Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara was arrested by the NYPD this week for drawing on a subway wall. Other "victims" of his precious vandalism took the opposite approach:

    Earlier that evening Nara was all up in Niagara bar in the East Village, drawing shit all over the walls, and what did they do? Put plexiglass over it. That shit is valuable. This proves that drunks are smarter than the NYPD, although not as romantic about the impermanence of art:

    [The Tangent/ AMNY]


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