Pearl Paint on Canal Street, the shop famous for its checkered red and white facade and affordable, specialized art supplies, closed last week. Workers were fired, possibly illegally. Meanwhile, the ...

Bruce Springsteen once sang, "Everything dies baby, that's a fact—but maybe everything that dies someday comes back to life as luxury housing." And so it goes for the former site of Pearl Paint, the ...

The residential conversion of Pearl Paint’s former Canal Street headquarters is going to have to wait a little bit longer. For the second time in the last five months, the city’s Landmarks ...

This past April, New Yorkers were devastated to find the iconic red-and-white Pearl Paint store was going out of business. Artists called it the end of an era, with one Brooklyn artist grieving, “It’s ...

Less than two weeks ago the first rumors surfaced that Pearl Paint on Canal Street was shuttering, and by the end of last week the store did indeed shut its doors. It was a tearful goodbye, according ...

Julian Schnabel: Years ago, I was down there with my cousin’s wife Corky. She was wild — she wore makeup on her legs, and she had a streak in her hair like Yvonne De Carlo in The Munsters. She liked ...

Pearl Paint is the kind of art supply house that could inspire you to quit your work-a-day life and begin anew as a trust-fund dilettante. As a retail resource, it inspires superlatives: The Mecca of ...