Back in February, New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan unveiled plans to pedestrianize large swaths of Broadway. These new car-free spaces in Times Square and Herald Square are expected to not only give people more safe public space to enjoy, but move motor vehicle traffic more efficiently too—that’s the plan at least. Read more »
After giving Coca-Cola a creative facelift last year, “identity and package design firm” Turner Duckworth is back at it, designing these new cans for the soft drink juggernaut. They’ll be “released over the next two months, culminating with a special July 4th holiday can” (it’s the patriotic looking one in the center with the stars on it). |CreativeReview|
The Artvertiser, a portable augmented-reality version of the New York Street Advertising Takeover, replaces all real world advertising with art. Currently under development, the software recognizes these individual advertisements and turns them into virtual canvases display artworks to the viewer, which you can preview above. |Public Ad Campaign|
In this clip, Congressman Steven Cohen (D-Tenn.) schools FBI Director Robert Mueller on legalization, the not so harmful effects of weed, and the bullshit that is the “gateway theory.” The politician also suggests that it’s time the crime fighting agency starts prioritizing their anti-drug strategies and stop lumping the more benign cannabis in with heroin, cocaine, or crack. |MPP|
Frightened by technology, Sir Paul McCartney has succeeded in removing photos of his London mansion from Google Street View. The Sun reports that McCartney, who has “been careful about security” since Mark David Chapman shot bandmate John Lennon to death in 1980, “was unsettled when he heard Google users could get a 360-degree view.” Now, images of his town house, at 7 Cavendish Avenue, St Johns Wood, London, NW8 9JE, have been blacked out along with a significant portion of the block. Read more »
Airlines pilots don’t think it’s a smart idea to put a proposed “trash-transfer station” close to La Guardia Airport and are fearful that the site could attract plane-killing birds. Although the FAA deemed the station safe last year, the whole US Airways taking a dip into the Hudson thing now has “some officials nervous.” |NYP|
Creating photorealistic paintings with unusual emotional depth, artist Reuben Negrón uses watercolors to paint images of real couples in moments of domesticity and intimacy. Tonight, the artist opens “Dirty Dirty Love,” a solo exhibition of these painted private moments, at Like the Spice Gallery in Williamsburg. The show opens from 6:30 to 8 PM and is on view through June 21st at 224 Roebling Street. Click the images above for a dirty look at the works on display.
Just in case there was any doubt that contemporary art sales in New York have fizzled out since news of the economic apocalypse took root, behold this very handy chart that puts things depressingly into perspective. Shit has basically hit rock bottom. |ArtMarketMonitor|
In honor of the Brooklyn Bridge’s 126th birthday, the City Reliquary is leading a celebratory ride this Sunday. The bike ride takes off at noon from 370 Metropolitan Ave in Williamsburg and ends with birthday cake, beverages and party music at the iconic East River crossing.
Reviving the famous “art-in-lieu-of-cash plan,” David Elder, current manager of the Hotel Chelsea, traded artist Nadia Bertrand free accommodation for her paintings. Occupancy at the hotel is low, so “the deals were undoubtedly easier to make,” adds the accused mismanager. |Chelsea Now via Curbed|
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