The ACER Erasure from the New Museum
Photo: Mark Winter-Gitelson
For ACER, it’s erasure.
The New Museum woke up last Wednesday morning to some new storefront flare on the Bowery, as first reported here. A roughly twelve-foot tag about five stories up, spelling ACER. It was a major coup for an anonymous, west coast street writer without any social media presence.
(We are told the artist likely scaled adjacent fire escapes to access this spot.)
A day later, though, cleaners were spotted buffing out the letterwork from the facade. By Friday afternoon, the ACER paint job was fully erased.
Photo: Mark Winter-Gitelson
The anonymous vandal flies under the radar without much online footprint. However, there are several posts on Instagram showing output in Seattle, San Francisco, and Oakland (via hashtag #acer444).
Meanwhile, the epic tag above the Bowery has spawned conversations in graffiti circles, serious or otherwise, that the New Museum should consider curating this spot as another “wall” for street art.
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