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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.
There’s nothing left to talk about; but now there is. Only a matter of time.
I TUNES baby; spin it out. SAMPLE IT NOW!
He (Jimmy McMillian) only 39,000 votes but it’s all over now; to a bunch of serious $$ douja.
Pre election = McMillian is Post election= McMillion!
Props, Jimmy. Props.
The socially suspect Guest of A Guest puts together a New York Magazine like diagram tracing the whereabouts of the Beatrice fallen and there various venues which are filling their pockets with money and douja.
Too bad most of these red rope jammies are completely ge-ner-ic in every sense of the word and lack any personality. Hey, you simply, CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN!
By now, you probably own a nice assortment of the ceramic “We Are Happy To Serve You Cups” from MoMA or perhaps Pearl River. Maybe you’ve handed a few out as gifts (they make GREAT gifts). Come March 2011, you will have your chance to buy your Milton Glaser logo ceramic cup, exclusively at MoMA.
From Your Desks already did your homework. Read the interview with the CEO and inventor of treehugger.com + the cups. You HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
Any early word on the I Love NY ceramics for MoMA? What a great idea (why didn’t I think of it?) Was licensing tricky to get around on that Glaser logo? Is that already public? Didn’t know it had leaked! It wasn’t tricky to get the licensce.
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…”
Hot off the mocoloco press is news of From Quebec;
A three-week long showcase of trend-setting products designed in Quebec, including home furnishings, tableware and wine accessories, fashion, children’s toys and even pet products. FROM QUEBEC – In New York City brings together the most talented Quebec designers for this one-time only gallery-boutique.
Cool that. I’m there.
From Québec runs through to October 22, 2010
at Relative Space, 2 Bond Street.
Through November 6, 2010; Pratt Manhattan is showcasing You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City with a great assortment of artists which From Your Desks will certainly be stalking later today.
(A few) works created specifically for “You Are Here” include:
· a three-dimensional map of the lower Manhattan skyline made of a Jell-O-like material by Liz Hickok
· an anxiety map of the five boroughs lit by sweat-powered batteries by Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson
· a “Loneliness Map” from Craigslist’s Missed Connections by Ingrid Burrington
· a scratch-and-sniff map of New Yorkers’ smell preferences by Nicola Twilley
· a cemetery map of Polish ancestors’ graves by Kim Baranowski
· an installation constructed from city ephemera by Pratt faculty member Robbin Ami Silverberg
“Contributing artists—some New Yorkers, others not—were invited to use inventive cartographic concepts to reflect the city’s abundant, colliding moods. The resulting projects reveal a range of reactions to the city’s heightened levels of stimulus, some energizing (discovery, delight, amusement, ambition, solidarity) and others melancholic (longing, loss, vulnerability, anxiety, isolation).”
I’m a big fan of Ingrid Burrington‘s “Loneliness Map” and Rick Meyerowitz “Sub Culinary Map”
I count myself in to see this exhibit in October and will report back.
