Smug councilman Peter Vallone Jr. aka “The Man Who Hates Graffiti,” is on a new crusade: anti-public art! “The arts are supposed to generate conversation but not apprehension and fear,” he grumbled, reprimanding Kim Beck’s skywriting project and presumably, any art that can be misinterpreted by terror-phobics and people with a lack of imagination. (Photo: Bowery Boogie)
Billboard liberator and Popagandist, Ron English, was responsible for hiring the skywriting plane that spelled out the word “cloud” five times over the city this morning. In an interview earlier this year, English said “these actual clouds will be for sale,” but there’s still no word on pricing for the artistic condensation. Video of the sky tagging project after the jump.
Photo by Will Sherman/ANIMALnewyork.com
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Just minutes ago, a skywriting plane flew over the city, leaving a puffy trail of text in its wake: the word “cloud” repeated over and over again. Here’s a photo from Crown Heights of the unidentified plane’s aerial scrawl, also reportedly seen somewhere in Queens. The performance is reminiscent of the cloud drawings artist Vik Muniz flew over Manhattan in 2000, but it’s not clear who’s responsible, just that their work was blown away as quickly as it came. Update: Artist Ron English took credit for the sky tagging project.
Photo by Will Sherman/ANIMALnewyork.com
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