those pictures were taken outside of the beta bar, which is the club owned by the drummer in lorrimar's band.
as far as i know permission was granted, or they don't care. there are lots of buildings down gaines st. that are painted like that. i plan to go back and take some more. the scans aren't as nice as the actual pictures, but had to do low res so as not to kill the board <grin>
the art is always changing down there. they seem to repaint about every month or so.