RIME’s Tribute To Dash Snow
It’s been a while since we’ve seen any worthy tributes to SACE, but now RIME enters the fray with this striking piece.
The year 2009 is quickly coming to a close, and with that comes a barrage of retrospectives of famous people who’ve died. Here’s one you can wear: the Faces of Death 2009 t-shirt. Read more »
Cooper Square Hotel Celebrates Completed Camouflage
Last night, the Cooper Square Hotel celebrated, not only the completion of its 5th street façade, but also it’s acceptance into the East Village. Thanks to the unifying powers of public art, the noisy hotel’s neighbors will no longer use dirty underwear and douche bags to signal their displeasure because they simply have none anymore. Read more »
An illicit tribute to graffiti writers has been vandalized, just days after going up. The lino-print portraits of IZ THE WIZ, TIE ONE and SACE have been mutilated, their heads lopped off and lacerated. Street artist Noh J. Coley plans to recreate his paper piece, which now illustrates why dead graffiti artists are rarely memorialized in anything but paint.
Photo by Noh J. Coley
Graffiti Writers Vandalize Heaven’s Gate
After a series of tributes to deceased graffiti writers, street artist Noh J. Coley created a group tribute, reprinting his linoleum-cut portraits of IZ THE WIZ, TIE ONE and SACE. His “Sprayed N Stone” piecedepicts the trio of graffiti writers breaking through Heaven’s pearly gates, located in Queens.
Photo by Noh J. Coley
The first night of Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art auction saw modest sales and nothing like Sotheby’s $39 million haul for Andy Warhol’s cash print. With the pop master’s soap box selling for $842k and Dash Snow’s Polaroid prints going for $50k, most sales fell within pre-auction estimates. Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted to stand on Andy Warhol’s soap box or paper your walls with someone else’s party photos, tomorrow’s your chance at Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art sale. In addition to one of Warhol’s wooden Brillo boxes, valued up to $900k, the smaller-than-normal auction features Dash Snow’s “Polaroid Wall,” estimated at the posthumous price of $40k to $60k. Also up for a bid is Jeff Koons’ $200k ice bucket, Banksy’s “Insane Clown” painting, Olafur Eliasson lightbox as wells as some pictures of nearly nothing by Felix Gonzalez Torres. Read more »
Cooper Square Hotel’s Graffiti Makeover Almost Complete
The artists hired to help the Cooper Square Hotel blend in, have been busy making it stand out. Joining VIZIE’s tribute to Dash Snow, Shinique Smith has covered the side of the building with her abstract calligraphy, Nick 1 is in the midst of a 4 train piece and Joyce Pensato is blowing-up her drippy painting of Homer Simpson.
Photos by Will Sherman/ANIMALnewyork.com
Boutique Hotel Commissions Graffiti Camouflage
The Cooper Square Hotel is getting painted with graffiti in an attempt “to fit in with the edgy local art scene.” Four artists, Joyce Pensato, Nick 1, Vizie and Shinique, have been paid to paint the 5th street facade of the 21-story boutique hotel in various shades of grey. “All the work is going to be different,” Vizie tells the Post. Below his “Tropical Fantasy” tribute to Dash Snow, who overdosed at another swank hotel around the corner, an apparent portrait of Homer Simpson is taking shape towards the wall’s expected completion on November 10th.
Christie’s is auctioning off a collection of contemporary art that includes Dash Snow’s cheap leather sofa and other oddities. A gift from his friend, photographer Ryan McGinley, the old couch lived in Snow’s LES apartment where it was excavated in a fruitless search for a mythical bag of coke. Snow later planted a palm tree and various other drug den decorations in the hole he and McGinley dug and titled it “This Was Your Life.” The party mess was exhibited at the now closed Rivington Arms Gallery in 2005, sold to collector Charles Saatchi, and is estimated to be worth between $40,000 and $55,000. Also up for bid at the Post-War & Contemporary Art auction on October 17th in London is a tattooed pig by Wim Delvoye, a couple of trashy fucking rats, a $30k FAILE painting and Damien Hirst’s statue of a girl with a broken leg, featured after the jump. Read more »
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