Last night, the Cooper Square Hotel celebrated, not only the completion of its 5th street façade, but also it’s acceptance into the East Village. Thanks to the unifying powers of public art, the noisy hotel’s neighbors will no longer use dirty underwear and douche bags to signal their displeasure because they simply have none anymore.

Actually, that’s not true. But the wall painting by Joyce Pensato, Nick 1, Vizie and Shinique Smith was finished, and the hotel did throw a party, though feuding neighbors were likely not invited. |Curbed|

Photo by EV Grieve

The artists hired to help the Cooper Square Hotel blend in, have been busy making it stand out. Joining VIZIE’s tribute to Dash Snow, Shinique Smith has covered the side of the building with her abstract calligraphy, Nick 1 is in the midst of a 4 train piece and Joyce Pensato is blowing-up her drippy painting of Homer Simpson.

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The Cooper Square Hotel is getting painted with graffiti in an attempt “to fit in with the edgy local art scene.” Four artists, Joyce Pensato, Nick 1, Vizie and Shinique, have been paid to paint the 5th street facade of the 21-story boutique hotel in various shades of grey. “All the work is going to be different,” Vizie tells the Post. Below his “Tropical Fantasy” tribute to Dash Snow, who overdosed at another swank hotel around the corner, an apparent portrait of Homer Simpson is taking shape towards the wall’s expected completion on November 10th.

Photos by EV Grieve and Curbed