She works largely but not exclusively through the medium of performance. She is an attention seeker. She might be a playing it up a bit, but it’s refreshing… and very much in the vein of De La Soul’s ‘Ego Trippin’ (Part Two)’ and ‘What They Do’ by the Roots:

The artist was protesting the monument’s waste of natural gas while actual veterans where being denied heat in their apartments. She will remain in jail until her next hearing on June 30. Allegedly, anonymous agents are repeatedly interrogating her and pressuring her to name other members of her art collective.

The sculpture is currently roosting outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, mocking them mysteriously. It says something about something invisible and important hidden somewhere. Find out what before it’s lost forever. “I don’t have that many decades… left in me,” Sanborn said.

The skulls in Guérineau’s vanitas “Les Oubliés” (“The Forgotten”) commented on art museums’ stuffy curational practices that prevent young artists from any careers. He denied this being a publicity stunt, as he gets enough of it as a successful artist: “I don’t need that. It’s rather a rant.”

Last month, he placed a painting at the Musée Maillol. This impressed them enough that the museum has launched a website to help promote contemporary artists and new work. |ABC News|

Artist Roman Klonek continues to draw influence from the Eastern European cartoons of his comic-addicted youth. The artist’s woodcuts, combine traditional folklore and popular culture into worlds full of fantastical creatures walking the line between animal and man. This Thursday, Klonek show off his latest prints at his first solo show, Flux Gate Kasachok, at Kemistry Gallery in London. Click the images above for our favorites from the artist’s latest cuts.

Artist Josh Keyes continues to create his post apocalyptic environmental landscapes that certainly illustrate the dangers of climate change better than Earth Hour. The artist has already shown us what happens when the polar ice caps melt and the big flood comes, now witness global warming at its worst. The image above is titled “Frenzy” and there’s a variation of that combustible theme called “Scorch II” after the jump.

Essex-Delanacy Subway station: F, J, M, Z
It just goes to show that not all vandalism need be done with spraypaint and drippy markers, elastic webs can also cause some chaos. Artist Jasmine Zimmerman is a nocturnal web slinger creating rubber band installations all over Manhattan with the hopes of entangling you in her stretchy art. A few nights ago she covered the entrances of the Essex street subway station and claims MTA workers appreciated her art even while being forced to climb through it to get to work. She has also ensnared bikers and joggers in Tompkins Square Park and altered countless routes. Some might deride her art as careless and dangerous, but we just think it’s fun. After the jump we provide more of her rubbery webs followed by her existential statement in full, all 524 words of it, detailing the project.








Artist Statement:
I am doing rubber band installations in the streets of Manhattan. They are elastic webs for people to get caught in, as we are all weaved in a web with people that may initially appear to be unrelated, are usually later revealed to be connected.
We are all in the center of a web, that pushes and pulls us, that is multi-faceted to it’s surrounding connections, that may speed us up or slow us down, and that usually directs or redirects our path; which is what the web installations do to anyone that just happens to be there at the right time.
The installations alter urban traffic environments, such as crossing staircases or busy sidewalks on the streets of Manhattan, inviting the pedestrian to reinvent their path. They can be very visible or almost completely invisible, depending on how the light hits them, (which changes throughout the evening of course as the sun moves through the sky).
If they are not looking at what lies ahead, they may just run into them and get caught in the web. They will then become aware of the space that they’re dancing with to navigate through the city.
I am altering the space and time that one may take for granted or view as predictable. For example, if one takes the same route commuting to and from work at the same time everyday, and this action over time becomes predictable and repetitive, I am here with spontaneity to alter that space and time, so that it is now unpredictable. By adding a surprise to the space, or an obstacle (however optimistically one chooses to label it), I am providing an opportunity for a creative alteration in the pedestrian’s route, as well as a new awareness of the space that one is passing through. No longer able to walk straight down the sidewalk, the pedestrian now can choose how they would like to reinvent their interaction with the space. They may go under it, play the strings as an instrument, dance through elasticity wrapping it around their body, or simply walk around it via the street. Whatever way they choose, they are becoming a dancer in that moment. Being a dancer and installation artist, I’m interested in how the two can merge and initiate each other, while using the public space that is accessible by everyone.
I’m most interested in observing how the public interacts with the webs. I’ve been surprised at the positive, enthusiastic encouragement I get from the public as they’re watching (or helping) me install. I really expected to be bitterly yelled at or arrested. But people actually really love them and usually volunteer their help.
It’s even more interesting when I am a passerby and incognito in the space, some time after I’ve put one up. I’ve been told stories by people on the streets days after making a web, when there were just remnants hanging from a traffic light, that there was some crazy ‘Spiderman’ out, blocking the walkways with these giant webs, and that they didn’t know what the hell was going on. I responded with, “I don’t believe you, that’s crazy.”
Jasmine’s Flickr

Meet Miru Kim. She thinks Manhattan is beautiful. And what better way to show appreciation for this city then stripping off her clothes and photographing herself in front of some of its most well known structures (at least amongst graffiti writers, Mole people, and NYC transit workers).
One can only hope Miru and Spencer Tunick cross paths under the Brooklyn Bridge and engage in a nude photog knife fight to claim individual territory.
[Naked City Spleen] Miru Kim photography