Tag: Public Art
Happy 195th Birthday, Karl Marx! The artist Ottmar Hörl made you a present — 500 of them. These three-foot-tall Karls-gnome-hybrids in clusters all over Trier in west Germany, where Marx was born. People seem to be amused. It’s definitely going over better than when Hörl had planted an army of gnomes mid-Nazi salute in Nuremberg. See, anything Nazi is illegal in Germany. A […]
While most of us are packing away our sweaters for the summer, Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Browder has some cozy plans for one building in the East Village. Commissioned by the local nonprofit Fourth Arts Block, Browder wants to wrap an entire East fourth street building in strips of multi-patterned fabric. The artist, who has previously […]
As part of their upcoming exhibition Busted, the High Line is allowing the public to nominate their favorite person to be immortalized in bronze during a portion of the exhibition atop the historic elevated park in Chelsea. Our friends over at ArtFCity have already nominated both seasoned owner and director of Postmaster’s Gallery, Magda Sawon. Who do you want to […]
How are we expected to celebrate Pi day when there’s not even a Google doodle to mark the occasion? There’s this Kickstarter, for one, where an artist and a faculty member from Williamsburg’s Green School are hoping to raise money for their students to paint a mathematical mural celebrating the famous figure. Painter Ellie Balk and […]
Lookit yonder: Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transits teamed up to bring you these funky, confusing Metrocards adorned with shaggy psychedelic horses to celebrate Grand Central Terminal’s centennial. March 25-31, at 11am and 2pm at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central, a herd of beasts will begin to “cross” the main concorse, busting into choreographed dance moves, now and […]
Happy birthday, London Underground. The world’s oldest subterranean railway hits big one-five-oh this year. To commemorate, artist Mark Wallinger was commissioned to make 270 unique works, one for each station in the network. Ten in this new series “Labyrinth” have just been unveiled. The stark black-on-white maze designs are simple but alluring — perhaps too […]
Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg’s 25-by-75-foot billboard You & Me was recently revealed at 18th Street by Friends of the High Line. The bold text and bright colors remind of 1960s poster art and concert flyers, which is right about when Ruppersberg began exhibiting in LA. It’s no Maurizio Cattelan’s severed fingers or David Shrigley’s excruciating internal […]
