Wednesday, April 30, 2008

LA Takedown

This building on Maine St. in Down Town LA was a place of art. It was an art gallery housing many unique and contemporary pieces by young and upcoming aspiring artists. On the wall outside there was this mural with bold letters yelling "LA TAKEDOWN!" The owner of the art gallery had received notice from the city that his building along with the whole block would be demolished in order to build more high rise apartments. His response to this information was to show publicly his feelings against this by getting some of his friends to paint this beautiful piece of modern art. The building was torn down, and now nothing remains. This picture symbolizes the owners artistic way to show his discontent with what the city had declared.
Much Respect.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

damn when did it go down?? that was like my favorite building to pass by

juzpLAyinball said...

it got torn down like in February
it was my favorite building to