Tag: Public Art
At first glance, this corner on Allen and Division Streets in Chinatown looks like many others in the area, but it’s part of a legal graffiti installation by Smart Crew that completely blurs the traditional notions of “vandalism” and “art.” Sure, the SABIO fire extinguisher tag, and the CASH4, STU, and CHE tags above are illegal […]
Today saw the unveiling of Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic today, a new Ed Ruscha mural on the High Line. The piece, a riff on a pastel-on-paper Ruscha piece from 1977, will be on display at West 22nd Street — across from the iconic COST/REVS roller — until May of next year. The text is definitely more […]
Artist and activist Steve Lambert’s traveling piece Capitalism Works For Me! is a large illuminated sign and a voting podium. You vote “yes” or “no” on whether capitalism works for you and the results are tallied and displayed on the sign — in real time. Today, it was installed in Times Square, on Broadway between 46th […]
There’s a curious new public art installation on 9th Avenue and 36th Street. “Monkey Magic” is a svelte, sci-fi and anime-inspired abstract metal sculpture from Chinese artist Tang-Wei Hsu as part of the DOT’s Urban Art Program and the International Studio & Curatorial Program. Loosely based on the fable of the three monkeys, the piece replaces the proverbial see/hear/speak no […]
Half of ANIMAL’s staff lives in that part of Brooklyn where Williamsburg meets Bushwick. Sometimes, some of us walk under this art-like construction, perched precariously on an arch outside the Borinquen Plaza Houses. As that particular section isn’t the neighborhood’s most swankiest piece of real estate, there are a few overdue repairs to be made, for […]
After much speculation earlier this month, it has been confirmed that the nearly 40-foot tall Playboy bunny logo spotted mysteriously in the desert of Marfa, Texas is in fact the work of Richard Phillips. While it is quite obvious that Playboy’s new creative team of Neville Wakefield and Landis Smithers commissioned the project in hopes to reinvigorate […]
As an artist whose latest project involved destruction, Doug Aitken has calmed down a bit and announced an upcoming public art project, sort of. The artist plans to embark upon a journey by train travelling from New York to San Francisco, making ten stops along the way. The project “Station to Station: a Nomadic Happening” is a road […]
Yesterday, on the scenic Greek island of Hydra, the internationally renowned Swiss artist Urs Fischer premiered his exclusive participatory art project. Children of all ages as well members of the public were invited to visit the island’s exotic location to make whatever they wish out of large amounts of colored modeling clay. Each of these many quite primitive looking sculptures, […]
If you’ve been waiting for interesting art within the virtual space since Eva and Franco Mattes re-performances in Second Life, here’s something. Cloud Party is a new, free virtual platform that looks and feels familiar, but remains completely in your browser, without any pesky installation processes. Since the people at Cloud Party have been so kind as to give […]
A recent commissioned mural by Cuban-American street artist David “LEBO” Le Batard for the Great Southern Hotel has struck an unwelcome code with Miami City Commissioner Patricia Asseff who told the Miami Herald, and I quote: We don’t want it to start looking like a ghetto over there. While the jazz-inspired piece titled “Bee-Bop Into Outer Space” diverged from its original sketches — […]
