Pink plastered across Angelina Jolie’s NYC fashion shop and ex-studio of Jean-Michel Basquiat, blotting out street art

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for the third time in under a year.“There’s years worth of art under there. It’s like the texture of the city,” street artist Doodle Hedz told The Post. “The street art community is like ‘What the f–k bro’?

Why would you do this?”Others were more blunt in their assessment of the vandal.“He f—ing sucks. It’s the third time he’s done it,” said an artist named Scott. “You can spend hours creating something you share with the city for free and someone comes along with 79 cents of pink paint and s–ts all over it.”The former stable was once owned by Andy Warhol, who allowed Basquiat to reside and work there from 1983 until he died in 1988.

Jolie first leased the location eight years ago, and in February she opened her fashion venture Atelier Jolie there. Jolie wanted to remain sensitive to NYC artists by allowing them to continue using the storefront as a canvas and pay tribute to Basquiat — as they have for decades.“When Jolie got the lease everyone was panicking that she was going to paint it,” Doodle Hedz said. “But word on the street is [renowned graffiti artist] Albert Diaz spoke with Angelina Jolie and advocated for her to leave the front alone, and she was going to let it ride.”“The people who work there are very nice,” the artist said. “They still let us do this and don’t call the cops.

This is one of the few walls in the city still dedicated to street art.”While the motivation behind the pink vandalism remains unclear, artists don’t think Jolie or her store had anything to do with it.“Nope.