Is that a tastefully draped Adam schooling a half-naked Eve on the right?
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141 Fifth Avenue which has been covered in a trompe l’oeil print of the exterior of the building for the past two years is slowly being unveiled.
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They appear to be doing serious structural work on the Ageloff Towers on Avenue A.
It is interesting to see the steel girders beneath the brick.
What must it be like living in those corner rooms while this is going on.

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Sign painters plying their estimable skills in service of dreck, that creepy symmetrical girl movie. I imagine they are working from a lightly drawn grid. But what is their reference, just a photo of the ad or something more elaborate. I would want a printout with paint-by-numbers contours, to be of course skillfully [...]

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