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card is probably not free if you are Alec Monopoly who had to bounce home for his sold out art show because the NYPD is not down with his scene. too bad he can’t borrow from the community chest.
Huffington Post reports: In the past weeks leading up to this exhibition, uniformed and plain-clothed police officers have been stopping by the studio and gallery, asking neighbors about Alec, and were observed staking out his intersection on more than one occasion. Alec has credible cause to believe his cell was tapped, and has relied on pre-paid
booster phones. That he is under surveillance may be a surprise to those unfamiliar with how the NYPD has treated artists since Giuliani bolstered “quality of life” crime enforcement in the ’90s, largely kept in place by Mayor Bloomberg. Painters selling their work on the street as well as graffiti artists have been thrown in jail, with their artwork confiscated and destroyed.
Free get of jail cards for you to go check out his exhibit.
Ah, the graffati cops never stop; do they? Sleeping with one eye open.
300 W 22nd Street.
“Milton Glaser’s “I Heart NY” is the eponymous rebus for Gotham. As an artist, I have painted many of Manhattan’s landmarks, on location, becoming part of the fabric of the city. The instant I heard about the New York Times redesign project, I knew I had to get in on this.First, I brought Glaser’s original image into Photoshop.
After selecting all four shapes, I then selected the inverse and clicked delete — revealing a simple template. Next, I took snippets of my location paintings, and began inserting them into the background. After some trial and error, I chose four paintings near and dear to my heart. The top two icons include sky, the bottom two show purely architecture… this was a dialectic visual cue to create depth.
“All in, this design allowed me to share my love of every inch of this city, from Battery Park to the Upper, Upper East Side.”
The “I” features the Woolworth Building at night, which was painted from the 32nd floor of 7 World Trade Center; the Heart is made up of the skyline from Time Out New York’s 12th floor office; the “N” is the 59th Street Apple Store; and the “Y” is The Guggenheim. Each painting captures important views and experiences in my life.
The Woolworth Building was my first night painting, and provided a true opportunity to soak up the evolving World Trade Center rebirth. There is something indescribably peaceful about painting the sparkling lights. Following being named Time Out New York’s Most Creative New Yorker in December 2009, Time Out agreed to let me paint their stunning view.
Spending a few weeks at TONY HQ truly illuminated how hard everyone works to give New York a list of what’s hot each week. Behind the Apple Store lies the GM building, where I was part of a team that closed a 500 million dollar construction loan. The closing took 48 hours… I remember the sun setting, rising, setting and rising again before we were done. And, of course, The Guggenheim, a building I intend to paint every summer for the next twenty years (this is painting number two.)
All in, this design allowed me to share my love of every inch of this city, from Battery Park to the Upper, Upper East Side.”
Borbay. Voted Time Out New York’s Most Creative New Yorker in 2009, Upper East Side artist Borbay has painted on-location around the world, including The Guggenheim, TriBeCa Grand, Woolworth Building, Elaine’s, Chrysler Building, Hancock Tower (Chicago) and San Marco Cathedral (Milan). His work is composed of collaged New York Post headlines, and layer upon layer of acrylic paint. Driven to capture the actuality of society, this series visually displays the paradox of love, lust, murder, sex, sports, betrayal, triumph, religion, rape and politics in one place… concepts any person reading a daily newspaper will see juxtaposed without a second thought.
His architectural impressionist collage paintings have been featured in Time Out New York , Wall Street Journal Japan, New York Post, Whitewall, The Huffington Post and more. Carlos Fresneda of El Mundo recently penned, “The undisputed kings of the season are undoubtedly Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Mr. Brainwash, backed this week by the new local hero, Jason Borbay , re-inventor (of) collage.” Process-driven, Borbay shares the creation of each piece through social media, posting frequent updates to his blog, Twitter, LinkedIn andFacebook accounts. If art plus social media is the new frontier, Borbay intends to be at the forefront. His works have been acquired for private collections around the world; as well as the permanent corporate collections of Red Bull, Pabst Blue Ribbon and BEVFORCE.
Get on it and follow @borbay
Dozens of Ways to ♥ New York.Via The New York Times: “Now that JetBlue Airways is using Milton Glaser’s famous “I ♥ NY” logo in a new advertising campaign, The Times asked readers to imagine commingling Mr. Glaser’s logo with other New York brands or slogans.”
Rodney Durso started ArtBridge which (as of November 11th) unveils 2,000 feet of “billboard size, weather-resistant works in place of the formerly dingy stanchions outside the London Terrace Gardens building and will remain there for the next year.”
In a city under constant construction and redevelopment, Artbridge installations attempt to interact with pedestrians in a new way, bringing light, color, form and beauty to our daily outdoor world.
This certainly beats looking at ugly stanchions and scaffolding which as we know has a funny way of staying up longer than originally determined.
425 W 23rd Street ; near Ninth Avenue.
Wow. This makes me restore some faith in the old school; The Underbelly Project kicked off in 2009, four stories (what is that about 30 feet?). Regardless; it’s some serious undergroundage. Subterranean elements; darkness, forgotten tunnels, walls upon walls of untouched canvas, elevators, shafts and New York’s finest rats. For 100 years, the space went “unfinished, unused and undiscovered.” Now; it’s brought together 103 of the great graffiti minds in the Bloomberg society. Amazing.
“Oh my god, we have to bury art here.”
The New York Times; in their Street Art Way Below the Street writes:
Collectors can’t buy the art. The public can’t see it. And the only people with a chance of stumbling across it are the urban explorers who prowl the city’s hidden infrastructure or employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
That’s because the exhibition has been mounted, illegally, in a long-abandoned subway station. The dank, cavernous hall feels a lot farther than it actually is from the bright white rooms of Chelsea’s gallery district. Which is more or less the point: This is an art exhibition that goes to extremes to avoid being part of the art world, and even the world in general.
Check the video here.
Another pluck and pull from the T Magazine Blog: this time on my favorite, John Baldessari. Boy o boy; I will get back to see this!
“The show might as well be called “Pure Pleasure,” because that’s what it delivers from start to finish. But it doesn’t end there. The tireless Baldessari, a hale 79, also has anexhibition of supremely elegant new paintings at the Marian Goodman Gallery. As if that weren’t enough to satisfy his appetite for turning every corner of art inside out, he has created yet another new body of work for “The Giacometti Variations,” a show of fashion-conscious sculpture opening Thursday at the Prada Foundation in Milan.”
Also, make certain to check his fantastic From Your Desks entry; a favorite of mine, to which I feel quite grateful for his participation.
“Pure Beauty” is on view through Jan. 9 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Sediment (Part 2)” continues through Dec. 4 at the Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th Street.
The Wall Street Journal put together a great piece Diving Into Downtown Culture where a nice line up of artists will present various murals.
A welcome piece of history still making it in gentrified neighborhood, perhaps the last legitimate dive bar left on the East Side scene.
“You look at it now, and it’s just amazing that it’s even hanging on,” said David Allen, a downtown resident since the mid 80′s. Mr. Allen, an influential illustrator with several paradigmatic punk album covers to his credit, will participate in this month’s Mars Bar show. He noted that a tiny and scrappy corner bar dwarfed by luxury housing is itself a combination of poetic irony and economic reality. “It does, I suppose, speak to the kind of twilight period that the economy’s in right now,” he said.
“If you have this idea about moving to New York and hanging out in the East Village in the 70′s,” Mr. Spivak said, “that is sort of how you would picture it. Mars Bar is probably the last relic of that scene.”
As Avi Spivak says in his blog: “Come celebrate the Lower East Side as it once was…”
Gawker had some fun today and posted the winners of their “Best Redesigns of The New York Label.” The science pick is diggity “science is sexy.” And a bit creepy via Jurassic Park; I like the implications.
If their was ever a more apporpoiate piece of art to describe the scene in New York right now…
The dark, stormy clouds. I get it but I don’t have to like it. Vintage words hurt.
Ed Ruscha. That Was Then This Is Now #1, 1989
acrylic on canvas
32 H x 46 W (inches)
or just a great poster?
regardless, check out the graphic work of Lucia Castro Triay.
I’m certain this has been propped a fair amount (actually not as much as I’d like to see), but this is to call to attention the Pratt Institute Design Series for Barnes and Noble. Super reasonable, great gifts and for thyself too (I picked up the pencil bag; reminds me of my old indestructible Visitation bag).
Designed by students for students, the collaboration began in 2007 with Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) students and this year, 2010, the bookseller invited Pratt Institute students to participate as well. Choice items are still available at Barnes and Noble.
On another (political note) you should purchase (not only if you have a membership) but because it’s supporting books.
Books.
Yes, Books.
Not your I-Pad. Not your Kindle.
Stick with the books, kids. And what the stores offer.
It’s good, great design and completely reasonable. Think Muji (and the price tag) with some humour and a bit of colour..
Peter Beard Gallery; SoHo *was still cool.
and various shouts from the new and improved W Magazine (perhaps I’ll renew my prescription once again). Go ahead and read: L.E.S. Is More. Great, nice exposure. Don’t “they” and those critics know art was and has always been happening along the Bowery. And, just because some kids have the greenback to open their nice little storefronts doesn’t always mean it deserves recognition.
Really, because it’s in the glossy pages means more gentrification. Let’s thank the Bowery Hotel, the Contemporary Museum and Keith McNally? How fashionable. Why didn’t you cover the edgy Bowery Boys when they were still alive? Personally, this piece feels five years too late.
Oh well, how nice of you to go below 14th street and give the highfalutina’s (I coined this word! a taste of the east side arty chic.
