After only a few days, the newspaper box done up by Adam COST for Showpaper was hijacked off of Second Avenue and within a relatively short time placed on eBay where the final bid for it reached $4,200. However, the money was never collected. Andrew H. Shirley, the curator for the project, says he was able to recover it from the seller, a known stolen street art dealer. It basically took some lengthy emails, legal threats and finally, a phone call from COST himself.
The Brooklyn man allowed Shirley to pick it up and Showpaper now has it safely stowed away until after the holidays. He said they’re trying to find a public place where it can be displayed, but not on the street.
In related stolen newspaper box news, Shirley was also able to recover the one done by street artists Wolftits and Cahbasm. It was taken from Greenpoint and placed on Craiglist. After arranging a fake buy, the curator, along with two car loads of people, showed up for the box and convinced the men, also from Brooklyn, that giving it back is the only real option. “Not to sound corny,” said Shirley. “But I think they had a change of heart.”
Now if they could only find the one done by NET and Droid, which I’m told, was the first one to disappear from the Union Square area. But no matter, soon there will be an even wider selection for would be thieves to choose from as there are plans to do a second series in a few months.
The above photo is of one of the unnamed team members that helped get the boxes back.
thats right by all means necessary….take back the streets….and coming down hard, gangster style on street art thieves….with all these artists pussyfooting around town happily puting up artwork, of course it took the like of old schoolers like COST and REVS to come down on these gank-stars and straight up lay the wood…..and it sounds like the SHOWPAPER ARTISTS have morphed into a retro style graf. crew from the train yard era….balling up, weilding baseball bats, & setting the tone for the new world order of the street art scene.
fucker took my shit from across the street too.
any comments from the peanut gallery should be kept to yourself.
The ''stand off'' with the box took place AFTER ''TODD PATRICK'' Called the police and filed a police report.
It was not in-tell I was contacted by ''Andrew Shirley'' a dude with a good head, and i made plans with him to have him pick up the box.
The people involed have my personal cell number- email – and address, i even had them come to my house. I have no reason to hide and DEFIANTLY no reason to be worried of my safety.
I did talked to cost after i made plans with Andrew Shirley. He was upset the box got no running time. After he knew i was retuning the box, we had a good convo about art and the state it is in ect.
Its funny how this whole thing happened, when you step back for a second you almost think is was a publicity stunt. The story on me getting the item is a whole other novel.
''sounds like the SHOW-PAPER ARTISTS have morphed into a retro style graf. crew from the train yard era''
yeh if fileing a police report like a snitch is keeping it real ''train yard era'' i must be from mars.
Having the police involed could of blown up in all of our faces, Cost's, mines and show-paper. NEVER GET POLICE INVOLVED. once again i worked the whole thing out with andrew hes a good dude from my point of view so far. no threats no fighting.
"NEVER GET POLICE INVOLVED" +1,000,000
@Ken, if I came to your house and took all your possessions, I'm sure you'd be cool with that, since you wouldn't wanna be a snitch.
kens story is bs and for this he will be yoked up!
no jessica all of the above are facts.
First of all, I don't know what happened. But I will say it is awesome when a rat denies being a rat and then some one produces the paper-work and the rat is exposed. And to be fair….you call some one a rat…you're obligated to pony up the documents. Let's see that police report.
Everyone involved sounds like a bunch of fucking faggots. Just sayin'
Play in the mud, and you are going to get dirty.