Tag: mosaic man
After the famous Jim Powers-decorated light poles — part of Powers’s life’s work known as the “Mosaic Trail” — were removed from Astor Place, many feared that they would be lost forever. Now it’s being reported that discussions have begun to return the landmark artworks. The lamp posts were removed earlier this year as part of the capital […]
Since 2011, Jim “Mosaic Man” Power has been fighting the mass pedestrian-friendly reconstruction project at Astor Place and this week, he has once again destroyed one of his signature works in protest, DNAinfo reports. For three decades, Power adorned New York lampposts with mosaic tile designs, and for several years he had been posting distressed messages on […]
