Since 11 Spring was buffed, and the Meat Packing district bleached of its stench, there are only a few spots left in Manhattan where you can find wheat pastings. The Candy Factory in Soho, and the former Swoon mural wall on the Lower East Side are mostly what’s left. The Deitch wall featured veteran wheat paster Shepard Fairey this summer, and the piece took a lot of abuse. It looked too much like a tee-shirt ad. In general painters are given more respect than pasters on the street.

Kenny Scharf makes a surprise appearance at the end. I think he last painted this wall in the Eighties.

And yes that is me ranting with myself in the soundtrack. Use the mute if needed.

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