Comments on: Street Art, Buddhism, and Drywall http://microscopiq.com/2006/12/street-art-buddhism-and-drywall/ art • games • change Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:28:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jason http://microscopiq.com/2006/12/street-art-buddhism-and-drywall/#comment-2231 Jason Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:56:28 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2006/12/street-art-buddhism-and-drywall/#comment-2231 Yeah, I thought art was the in thing for rich people these days, too. And isn't street art the hippest form? One of the rules the Wooster folks put forward, though, was that the event <a href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2006/12/wooster_on_spring_how_the_project_came_t.html" rel="nofollow">could not be commercialized</a> in any form, so that probably ruins the possibility of marketing the condos as an art purchase more broadly. I can't say I blame them, but that does make it tough to attract folks who would be interested in keeping the building as-is if they weren't already paying attention. Still, I think it'll be interesting to see what happens when the buyers actually move in. I hope some of them pull down the drywall and let the building breathe. I know I would. :-) Yeah, I thought art was the in thing for rich people these days, too. And isn’t street art the hippest form?

One of the rules the Wooster folks put forward, though, was that the event could not be commercialized in any form, so that probably ruins the possibility of marketing the condos as an art purchase more broadly. I can’t say I blame them, but that does make it tough to attract folks who would be interested in keeping the building as-is if they weren’t already paying attention.

Still, I think it’ll be interesting to see what happens when the buyers actually move in. I hope some of them pull down the drywall and let the building breathe. I know I would. :-)

]]> By: Aparna http://microscopiq.com/2006/12/street-art-buddhism-and-drywall/#comment-2194 Aparna Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:33:07 +0000 http://microscopiq.com/2006/12/street-art-buddhism-and-drywall/#comment-2194 I thought art was 'in' for rich folk again. Just reading about the madness at the art fair (art basel or something like that) going on in Miami now makes me believe that if this was marketted (is this a real word?) a little better perhaps the rich folk would have paid to keep the walls as is. Or perhaps the kind of rich folk interested in that sort of thing would be buying up those condos. Wonder if the current owners knew this is what was going to happen. Either ways its pretty damn sad that its going away in something as utterly mundane as white dry wall. I thought art was ‘in’ for rich folk again. Just reading about the madness at the art fair (art basel or something like that) going on in Miami now makes me believe that if this was marketted (is this a real word?) a little better perhaps the rich folk would have paid to keep the walls as is. Or perhaps the kind of rich folk interested in that sort of thing would be buying up those condos.
Wonder if the current owners knew this is what was going to happen. Either ways its pretty damn sad that its going away in something as utterly mundane as white dry wall.

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