As promised, the crews that put together last weekend's Absolut Open Canvas art installation on the 600 block of Divisadero have removed all traces of the project from the street.
Well, almost all traces.
Gone are the mountain scene and murals from the face of the Harding Theatre (above), as is the verbiage from the side of Rare Device:
The lower half of the Independent has been repainted its original red, and the living walls are gone from the grates of the Alouis Radiator Shop.
And say so long to the yarn bombs on Grove Street, including the mannequins who briefly sat atop the wall.
Still, a few signs of the project remain.
The air fresheners still hang in the tree branches outside City Nails II, and that Absolut billboard still looks down on the scene from above La Urbana. Also, the owner of Bean Bag's building has apparently decided to keep the geometric blue, black and white paint job, if not the peaks that extended above the roof:
When we first wrote about it a few weeks ago (and again when the art was unveiled), the Open Canvas project inspired a flurry of mostly-negative comments from our readers. Now that the art is gone, we're wondering if attitudes have changed. So, feel free to share your reflections on the whole shebang in the comments below.
Gone are the mountain scene and murals from the face of the Harding Theatre (above), as is the verbiage from the side of Rare Device:
