That is the sentiment of some parents whose children are going to live very sheltered lives upon seeing a ghoulish display at the Chelsea Market. The becoming Halloween decorations include a baby zombie eating a human hand prompting cries of “inappropriate” from at least one breeder. Oh the horror!
When Cindy Gallop brings a guy home, she wants it to be a “sure thing within two minutes.” So, the veteran seductress who thinks porn ruined men turned a YMCA locker room/shower into a Chelsea bachelorette pad. Read more »
After embellishing Marc Jacobs’ storefronts, MIRF, the New York graffiti duo MINT and SERF, collaboratively decorated a Chelsea building. Mixing their throw-up styles with PORK’s snake tree, the artist trio created this rainy display outside the Sanford Meisner Theater on the corner of 22nd Street and 11th Avenue in Chelsea.
Photo by Sabeth718
This morning, a messenger-looking thief was photographed stealing the front wheel off a bike in Chelsea. An observant cyclist reports he noticed the man ”looking a little sketchy” by the bike rack outside a Starbucks at 6th Avenue and 27th Street. And though the witness didn’t stop him, he was able to shoot a photo of the thief with his iPhone camera before the guy rode off on his carbon fiber road bike.
While the High Line park is by no means perfect, the criticisms collected by Oobject are perhaps the weakest and most irrelevant we’ve ever heard. Among their complaints: the new park isn’t lit up with gaudy lights, there are no plants in an area that doesn’t see sunlight, it’s longer than it is wide, and the far-fetched claim that people won’t use it. Skimming the irrational arguments, it becomes pretty apparent that whoever’s behind them hasn’t actually seen the park in person, in part because of repeated speculation that the non-existent pedestrian areas underneath the trestle will harbor crime, danger and other scary things. Whoever came up with them should have their internet ranting privileges revoked.
After more than ten years in operation, Bellwether Gallery announced today that it is closing this summer. Over the years an array of artists exhibited with the Chelsea gallery, a few of which are featured above including Trevor Paglen and his explorations into the military’s secret installations and aircraft. Owner Becky Smith, who moved the gallery from its original location in Williamsburg to 134 Tenth Avenue in Chelsea, has decided to shut down the space in large part due to pressure from the current financial climate. In part, she wrote us: Read more »
A decade after Friends of the High Line was founded to advocate for saving the historic structure, the first section of the elevated park opened to the public this week. The railway that once carried cattle to slaughter now bears the weight of visitors comfortably walking and lounging along the pathway between Gansevoort and West 20th Street. While many of the original tracks have been preserved amidst the new walkways, flowers, foliage and LED lighting, it’s sad to see that not just some, but all of the paintings and graffiti that added some depth and character walls along the tracks are gone. Read more »
Sword and skull covered clothing is apparently not selling well in this economy, even when it’s not a ripped off design. After closing his Gramercy warehouse, and dumping his Times Square flagship space, comes news that “Marc Ecko’s ill-thought-out Chelsea boutique Marc Ecko Cut & Sew is done.” |Racked|
Like an arty upscale porn magazine, a new exhibition of experimental photos challenges “the proliferation of glossy, overemphatic, staged images.” Tomorrow night, “Palomar: Experimental Photography” opens at Marvelli Gallery in Chelsea, featuring artist investigations into atypical photo techniques that sometimes challenge the definition of photography altogether. The group show opens tomorrow from 6 to 8 PM and is on view through June 27 at 526 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor. Click the images above for a preview of the experimental work.
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