[Newsbot]

Title: Graffiti artists suing 5Pointz owner for whitewashing their work from building
Category: Strange
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-06-14 13:52:40

[Freakinoldguy]

Just when does the insanity end?

You can deface and destroy someone elses property but be damned if they can violate your rights. These self entitled assholes should be in jail for breaking the law not being applauded for their "artistic" endeavors.

[andyt]

How can they "retreive" their artwork. Let's hope the owner doesn't settle and fights this if it doesn't get dismissed first. Thing is that insurance companies find it easier to settle and just raise the rates of the insured.

But maybe it's a case of like if you let people walk across your property for some time, they start having the right to do so.

[QBall]

According to the article the building owner allowed the "artists" to use the building to do their "art", so they did nothing illegal. However it is silly to think that somehow they were going to retrieve their work or that a museum would want it.

$1:

The creation of 5Pointz dates to 1993, when Wolkoff first let visual arts use the derelict Long Island City property he owned as their large-scale canvases.