Underground Art!
When contemporary Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara busts out a marker and makes some doodles on canvas, the brilliant results end up in galleries across the globe and easily fetch six figures at auction. But when Nara drunkenly made some stylish squiggles on the wall of the 1st Ave. L-train subway station in the East Village earlier this year, he was busted by some clueless NYC cops and thrown in jail for the night. His “vandalism” was quickly wiped clean by MTA officials — despite estimates that the work could’ve easily earned $10,000 for the cash-strapped agency — but the multi-millionaire art star was nothing but gracious, telling Art in America magazine it was “a nice experience in my life . . . Like in the movies.” Now Yoshitomo Nara has been given an adjournment in contemplation, meaning that if he stays out of trouble for six month
s, all charges will be dropped.