Joe.My.God. LGBT News
The New York Daily News reports:
It’s a four-story outdoor art installation that’s hard to ignore. Residents of the Lower East Side awoke Christmas morning to find an enormous penis painted on the side of a Broome St. apartment building — courtesy of a Swedish-born artist.
“I have never heard so much laughter and seen so many happy faces behind my back when painting as for today doing this wall on Broome Street,” wrote Carolina Falkholt on Facebook after finishing the piece.
Falkholt, 40, is a well-known street artist renowned for her large-scale projects. A second Falkhalt painting on Pike St. on the Lower East Side features a far more abstract mural of a vagina. Her Instagram feed, featuring a photo of the painted phallus, has become home to a debate over its placement in a residential area.
More from NBC News:
The post quickly garnered the ire of Instagrammers, with many calling the installation offensive.
“Y’all Wnna come mess up are neighborhood with what you think it’s cool but it’s really not. Can’t wait till it’s removed and it will happen. We don’t play that in the Lower East Side,” wrote one user.
Another chimed in, “This is the most disgusting gross display of street art. It’s one thing to have this in your home but to have this in public where families live and walk by is a major lack of respect”
Other users, meanwhile, defended the work — saying the piece was “a lovely shade of pink” and sparked a conversation.
?? Et pendant ce temps à New York…. (4 étages, Broome St., réalisé par Carolina Falkholt) pic.twitter.com/OJIV8sx24V
— B3infos (@B3infos) December 27, 2017