11 spring street

If I were in New York City this week, I would stroll by 11 Spring Street. It is an old building that happens to be one the grafitti art world’s lodestars and it is about to be renovated into upscale condos. For the last two months artists have flown in from all over the world to make or spray one last work on this famous site. It is currently open to the public from 9-5 pm until Sunday. Read about it here in the NYTimes.

Or read this blurb here and be done with it:

“And Jace, who created a piece on the building’s fifth floor that includes a frighteningly large mousetrap, made of wood and metal and baited with a huge bag of fake money — a clear jab at the development that is about to transform the building — probably won the prize for longest commute. He flew in from the island of Réunion, east of Madagascar, where he lives, spent several days in the building and then returned.”

Now would this mousetrap catch you?

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