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Michael K Williams - Street Murals
Featured In Mo's Bar & Lounge, Brooklyn, NY
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Creation: 1-3 weeks
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Estimated Arrival: June 9, 2024
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Fort Greene, already a neighborhood with a rich tapestry of street art and installations, took the wraps off its newest mural at a block party on South Portland Avenue Saturday. A larger-than-life painting of a laughing Michael K. Williams now beams over the Fulton Street subway stop on the brick wall alongside Moe’s Bar and Lounge.
Next to his face—eyes closed, mouth joyfully agape—is a quote attributed to Williams: “Do me one favor. Don’t be like me. Be better than me. Stand on these shoulders and take it higher.”
Williams, who was found dead of an overdose in his Williamsburg home earlier this month, was a native son. Born in Brooklyn in 1966, he grew up in the Vanderveer Estates housing complex, which is now known as Flatbush Gardens—and was all the more beloved for never having lost touch of his Brooklyn roots despite wild success as an actor in shows such as “The Wire” and “Boardwalk Empire.”
On Saturday, the community celebrated his life.
“As an artist and activist who met Michael in 2012, I wanted to pay my respect via art, since he gave us so much of his,” Sally Rumble, the artist who painted the mural, tells Brooklyn Magazine.
Next to his face—eyes closed, mouth joyfully agape—is a quote attributed to Williams: “Do me one favor. Don’t be like me. Be better than me. Stand on these shoulders and take it higher.”
Williams, who was found dead of an overdose in his Williamsburg home earlier this month, was a native son. Born in Brooklyn in 1966, he grew up in the Vanderveer Estates housing complex, which is now known as Flatbush Gardens—and was all the more beloved for never having lost touch of his Brooklyn roots despite wild success as an actor in shows such as “The Wire” and “Boardwalk Empire.”
On Saturday, the community celebrated his life.
“As an artist and activist who met Michael in 2012, I wanted to pay my respect via art, since he gave us so much of his,” Sally Rumble, the artist who painted the mural, tells Brooklyn Magazine.
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