After Destroying Peoria's Internet-Famous Cookie Monster Mural, the Landlord Will Commission a 'More Appropriate' One to Replace It
Courtesy Joshua Hawkins. An unassuming Illinois city has become the site of a captivating art mystery. And this one has nothing to do with monoliths. At the center of the drama is the question of who paid local artist Joshua Hawkins to paint a Soviet art-style mural depicting Cookie Monster on the side of a building while posing as the building’s owner, a man named Nate Comte. Since the actual (and enraged) Nate Comte discovered the prank and whitewashed the mural, the wall where it stood has become a site of pilgrimage. It has been graffitied with the message “f*ck real Nate” (that’s...
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