Art work by Carolina Falkholt to be painted over, after complaints from neighboursA five-storey high depiction of an erect blue penis on a Stockholm apartment building is to be painted over just a week after its unveiling following a storm of complaints from neighbours. “Culture and art are important in developing interesting urban environments,” Camilla Klimt, the company’s marketing manager, told the paper. The New York work was painted over within three days instead of the intended three weeks after similar complaints from locals. But Falkholt said on Wednesday she thought the reaction in her native Sweden would be different. “I think there’s more intellectual space to discuss the subject, in a nuanced way.”She said she liked to think of the Stockholm painting – titled Fuck the World – as “a reincarnation”.

Source: The Guardian April 13, 2018 17:26 UTC