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Visual and audio gems abound at 98 Bowery...just had a listen to Anne’s message looking for Chuck Close’s phone number. Of course, the entire site deserves some studying.
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AMEN!
Positioned outside the SCOPE Pavilion walls and visible from the West Side Highway, Robert Montgomery’s new work delves into our collective unconscious with his melancholic The City is Wilder Than You Think, 2012. This large, site-specific text work engages dialogue through the Situationist concept of detournement, which hijacks advertising space in the city, often illegally, and replaces the advertising with poetry.
(Source: Scope Art)
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A bittersweet piece in New York Times about the amazing work of homeless artist Anthony Horton (who died in a subway fire) done from charcoal and fax machine ink he found in the trash. Excerpt below:
Mr. Horton found solace in the blackness of the tunnels. He made the subway the subject of his canvases, the muse for a graphic novel that he co-wrote, and the place he called home for the better part of his adult life, even when he had other places to stay.
(more excerpts from Pitch Black here)
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More delicious old photos of the 1970-80s are on Matt Weber’s site.
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The multi-talented New Yorker Jorge Colombo steps up his game with his NY1x1 tumblr (a small sampling of images below).
And, if I have problems living in New York’s past circa 1998…this exhibit at The Barbican (you will need to jump the pond) will certainly have those in the 1970′s feeling quite nostalgic. The BBC put together a fantastic video here.
On the verge of bankruptcy in the 1970s, the disappearance of manufacturing and other major industries and the withdrawal of public services were turning the city into a centre of widespread unemployment and lawlessness. Artists responded by taking over derelict spaces to make and exhibit their work, by using the city itself as the medium or setting for their work, by creating opportunities to engage directly with the public out of doors and by building a vibrant arts community.
I declare! If only artists today would create in the economic times, using what we have available to create edge instead of copying blue prints of what has been done…now that is an idea! Otherwise, we are just falling down the same rabbit hole.
(Thanks to PD Smith) never fails to inspire and point out the old times.
Photos by: Tricia Brown
20×200′s Map of the 2011 New York Art Fairs by Wendy MacNaughton
Check out Anthony Burrill’s three graphic images.
MoMA, dining out, football or a film, the Highline and brushing your teeth twice a day for two minutes.
Perhaps it’s the uptown romantic in me, but I really enjoyed this piece on Liz Taylor’s dentist, Irwin Smigel in Sunday’s New York Times. And this…
My two oldest grandchildren told me about this incredible place called the Boom Boom Room at the Standard Hotel, so a few weeks ago, Lucia and I decided to see it for ourselves. We called and asked when people our age should come there, and the hostess said, “Not after 10 p.m.” So we went for brunch at the Standard Grill and then went up and took a peek at the Boom Boom Room. The kids were right; it’s some place.
Today is a day to cross promote. New York’s great Milton Glaser is on my creative collaborative From The Desk Of…
Check it out.
