{"id":2647,"date":"2010-10-26T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/10\/the-return-of-mayor-koch-in-mural\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T18:10:43","slug":"the-return-of-mayor-koch-in-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/26\/the-return-of-mayor-koch-in-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return Of Mayor Koch in Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Graffiti of New York\u2019s Past, Revived and Remade<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0RANDY KENNEDY<\/a><\/p>\n

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Robert Wright for The New York Times<\/p>\n

With \u201cJoan of Arc,\u201d at a warehouse along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, the graffiti collective Slavery is paying homage to a 1980 work that read \u201cHand of Doom.\u201d\u00a0<\/em> More Photos \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyone who has been lost in the last few weeks around the southern reaches of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn could be excused for experiencing a powerful Koch administration flashback. On the wall of a brick warehouse there, visible from the parking lot of a furniture store, a huge mural unfurls itself, a loving, seemingly spray-by-spray re-creation of one of the more infamous pieces of graffiti ever to ride the subway: a 1980 work by the artist known as Seen that covered the length of a No. 6 train car with the ominous phrase \u201cHand of Doom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The original work \u2014 among those canonized in Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper\u2019s 1984 landmark photographic history,\u00a0\u201cSubway Art\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 was a token of its troubled urban times, a reference to the\u00a0Black Sabbath<\/a>\u00a0song of the same title with the words flanked by a hooded executioner and a time bomb. The 21st-century version, on closer inspection, turns out to be a bit gentler and a lot more oblique. It reads \u201cJoan of Arc,\u201d and the hatchet man has been replaced by an armored representation of the martyred French saint.<\/p>\n

A few miles away, on a streetfront wall in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn, a similarly odd example of historical revival has sprung up: a kinetic-looking 1980 piece by the graffiti writer Blade has been recreated, with the five letters of his name changed to read Plato. On a coffee shop wall in Bushwick, a name piece from the same year by the artist known as Dondi has been faithfully resurrected but changed to read Gandhi. And a copy of an early-\u201980s subway tag by the artist Sin appeared just last week on a row of lockers inside Louis D. Brandeis High School on the Upper West Side, with the addition of a few letters and some philosophical heft; the name is now Spinoza.<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times Graffiti of New York\u2019s Past, Revived and Remade By\u00a0RANDY KENNEDY Robert Wright for The New York Times With \u201cJoan of Arc,\u201d at a warehouse along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, the graffiti collective Slavery is paying homage to a 1980 work that read \u201cHand of Doom.\u201d\u00a0 More Photos \u00bb Anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}