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Thursday, August 6, 2009

central park photography

photographer Tod Papageorge documented scenes from central park from 1960-1992. finally, his photographs are published together in a book titled "Tod Papageorge: Passing Through Eden". the sequencing of the half of the book is based on the first six chapters of the genesis. Papageorge explains:

The world, or Eden, or Central Park, is created in the first half-dozen pictures, one for each day of the Creation: Adam appears as a pile of molten dust, then as his radiant self; Eve arrives opposite a picture of bleached branches that, to me, suggests her emergence from Adam’s rib; and on it goes through the snake, the apple, Adam and Eve’s shame, the Expulsion, Cain and Abel, Enoch, and, lost in themselves and the park grass, a few of the generations that follow them. After that, and unlike what in the Bible becomes an indictment of Man so profound that it requires the correction of the Flood, follows what I think of as a long chapter of takes from the human comedy, Manhattan-park-style.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

warhol polaroids

seventy still-life polaroids of andy warhol's taken between 1977-1983 are on display at the paul kasmin gallery in new york through january 10th. warhol first purchased a polaroid big shot camera in 1970 and quickly integrated it into his artistic process by photographing all of his subjects. polaroid photos were warhol's "pencil and paper" and established themselves as the point of departure for lots of his more famous silkscreen prints and paintings. to see warhol's silkscreen subjects in these color polaroids is to catch a glimpse into warhol's world...it's like putting on a pair of his sunglasses. but don't fool yourself into thinking that warhol didn't intend for us to see these. warhol's eyes always had two money signs in them and everything of his was always for sale.

Paul Kasmin Gallery

511 27th Street ny

if you're out of the area then you have permission to see the exhibition online here.

thanks for the tip, christian.

Detail Image

Monday, June 30, 2008

Houston Fence

the pretty miz intersection of Broadway/Houston got a little less miz. artists Carolina Cisneros, Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena, Mateo Pintó created the "Houston Fence", a two sided chain-link fence decorated with put-in cups. the designs on the fence are inspired by QR code barcodes. i first noticed this fence a couple of weeks ago. i was walking with some friends when i noticed that people in orange suits working on the designs. the pixel-like patterns on the fence meant to be read in from different perspectives; out the window of a speeding taxi, walking, from a bike etc. the fence has QR codes that (if you have a QR reading cell phone) link you to blogs, websites, and other people....so its interactive, too.

fence was erected for safety during the Houston corridor reconstruction project. read more about the Houston Fence at the project's blog.

NE corner

SE corner

SW corner

NW corner

Friday, June 27, 2008

Jocelyn Hobbi, Kathy Grayson "Like it A Little"

New York artist Jocelyn Hobbi and Kathy Grayson, latest exhibition "Like It A Little" is showing at the V&A New York through July 26, 2008. The exhibition is supposed to elicit a visceral response from the viewer, the pieces are "meant to reveal an attraction to something with hesitation".

Hobbi's works exhibit women in provocative and vulnerable poses with pointy-breasts and just-had-sex eyes at sea. Grayson's oil paintings have a pixelated look (which we know ML digs prob a little too much right now). At first glance the colors are beautiful but at second glance, once you focus in on the subject, there is something really explosive, tumultuous, and incandescent about them.

but there really is something sublimely beautiful, lonely, about Hobbi's and Grayson's works.

"Like It A Little" also features the work of Natalie Frank and Selma Hafizovic, two artists equally worthy of a mouse-click.

here is some of Hobbi's work:

here is some of Grayson's work (although it seems more more family portraits will be feautred in the exhibiton):

via NYMag

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Solid Gold

if you're into synth-heavy-alternative-electronica-disco check out the mpls indie rockers Solid Gold

watch their steel-solid vid for "Bible Thumper" below:

and if you think you'd like to listen to mother nature sigh in ecstasy def check out "Who Are You Gonna Run To"

Upcoming Shows:

July 8: Knitting Factory NYC
July 9th: Pianos w/ the cummies and Des Roar NYC
July 10th: Galapagos Art Space: BK

one tone & a remix:

Solid Gold: Bible Thumper
Solid Gold: Bible Thumper (Wotlie Remix)

their upcoming EP "Who You Gonna Run" To is available here for $8 featuring two songs off their upcoming album "Bodies of Water" with remixes from WOTLIE and MGATP and one previously unreleased song.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

STUDIO BBQ

tonight marks the kick-off of studio B's monthly rooftop partAy. Free Entry, but $4 gets you a burger, fries, coleslaw, brownies, and some cobbler from 7-10pm. 21+ per and drink specials, per yooge.

Finger on the Pulse Present's Studio BBQ.

Featuring the music of:
DJ Never Forget
Terry Diabolik
David Bruno (Slap You In Public)
Harvard Bass

Grill by:
Avery Wittkamp (Pastry Chef at Marlow & Sons), Gabe McMackin (formerly at Blue Hill at Stone Barns), Lesley Stockton (Executive Chef of Dram Shop) and Heather Meldrom (formerly at Craftsteak NYC).

Monday, June 16, 2008

Tony Shafrazi

Tony Shafrazi's new exhibition "Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns" is being called a must see.

Shafrazi is the artist who was arrested in 1974 for walking into the MoMA, yelling "call the curator! i am an artist!", and spray-painting the words "KILL LIES ALL" on the Guernica. The famous Picasso work had a protective coating on and was cleaned immediately, so no permanent damage was done. The menace-to-art curators was escorted out of the MoMA in handcuffs, charged with criminal mischief, and sentenced to five-years of probation. In 1980 Shafrazi told Art in America:

I wanted to bring the art absolutely up to date, to retrieve it from art history and give it life. Maybe that's why the Guernica action remains so difficult to deal with. I tried to trespass beyond that invisible barrier that no one is allowed to cross; I wanted to dwell within the act of the painting's creation, get involved with the making of the work, put my hand within it and by that act encourage the individual viewer to challenge it, deal with it and thus see it in its dynamic raw state as it was being made, not as a piece of history.

Tony Shafrazi opened a studio in the 1980s frequented by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and Donald Baechler. His last exhibition was titled "four friends" and featured works by the four artists.

NYTimes Writes:
Every square inch of Shafrazi's “Four Friends” show photographed: not only paintings, frames and their shadows, but also blank walls, windows, ceilings, views through various doorways and the gallery’s two guards. Shafrazi then converted the images into trompe l’oeil wallpaper that, meticulously applied, lines the gallery with a same-size simulacrum of itself, which enables “Four Friends” to stay in place while a second show is installed on top of it.

Read more about "Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns" at the NYTimes.

The exhibition is an early contender for Gallery Group Show of the Year. Showing through July 12th at Shafrazi's Chelsea Gallery (544 West 26th Street, 212.274.9300)

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Playing the Building

10 South Street, New York, NY (Map)
31 May – 10 August 2008
Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon – 6PM (Free)

(via David Byrne's Journal) Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.

Battery Maritime Building: PTB Mockup 2008

More information and Anne Pasternak's interview with David Byrne here // Take a video tour inside the building:

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Do the Boutros Boutros

A must-attend, throw-some-shapes-on-the-DF event is nigh... June 24th marks the return of the the 1992 Party, a celebration of fresh hip-hop & TGIF culture. Join your fellow Urkel-loving, BBD-blasting, Cross Colours-wearing homeslices out on Rockaway Beach.

Can-not be missed.

Full coverage at NYT.

Video from Paper Mag:

Monday, May 26, 2008

the hugging saint in NYC

Amma is an indian humanitarian who travels across the globe hugging people.

here is her tour schedule & website. get your love on.

Seattle 5.30 - 6.02
San Ramon 6.04 - 6.14
Los Angeles 6.16 - 6.20
New Mexico 6.22 - 6.26
Dallas 6.29 - 6.30
Coralville 7.02 - 7.03
Chicago 7.05 - 7.06
New York 7.08 - 7.10
Washington DC 7.12 - 7.13
Boston 7.15 - 7.18
Toronto 7.20 - 7.23

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keith harring & public art

i was waiting for Pan Tostado to get his eyes checked and get new glasses at the Moscot store on orchard street and they had this vintage sunglasses display decorated with some photographs keith haring's paintings, along with a neon painted boombox (unfort, sunglasses were not for sale). we walked out of Moscot and spotted STREETSIES left and right before passing the keith haring tribute mural on houston & bowery painted in honor of haring's (would be) 50th birthday.

all in all, it was a great day for street art spottin. isn't it nice to be able to enjoy your outdoor surroundings? sometimes in the winter its hard for me to avoid being overcome with negative energy and just GETTING wherever i'm going because its so cold and dark and grey outside. in summer everything slowsssssssss down.

here are some photographs of keith harings work (1958-1990), and a superficial bio.

Haring, originally from PA, moved to new york in 1978. he disagreed with the museum system and focused his artistic energy on creating an accessible form of public art. to keith, art was about reaching as many people as possible.

in 1980 Haring found his forte while experimenting with public art on the subway. he noticed that unused advertising panels in subway stations were covered with black matte paper. haring began drawing with white chalk on these panels, sometimes producing as many as forty "subway drawings" per day. haring says the subway became a "laboratory" for experimentation.

Haring rolled with kenny scharf, basquiat, and andy warhol. he painted over 50 public murals between 1982-1989 in parks, on buildings, in hospitals, orphanages, and day care centers, and for charities. many of haring's works bear social messages.

Haring painted the Crack is Wack mural on the FDR in 1986. he also worked with over 900 children to create a mural for the 100 year anniversary statue of liberty anniversary, and a mural on the western side of the Berlin Wall three years before its fall.

Haring, an openly gay man, died of AIDS in 1989 after being diagnosed in 1988.

check out his online store (the NYC store closed). they have some great gifts and other stuff to dress up your crib.

Friday, May 23, 2008

kahn and selesnick

Artists Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn have been collaborating to produce multi-layered exhibitions for the past 20 years, and their most recent project Eisbergfreistadt ("iceberg free state") is currently on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York.

Eisbergfreistadt is an exhibition of photographs, paintings and objects that chronicle the developments of an imaginary utopian state during a period of economic and ecologic disaster. In their signature style, Kahn and Selesnick tell their story by blending together fact and fiction.

Their elaborately staged photographs are filled with dream-like stories, but the combination of these images with invented cultural artifacts (like the printed invitations to the "Eisberg Ball" in 1923), provide the show with a grounded sense of history.

The show ultimately explores the relationship between the economy and the environment in a period of hyperinflation and global warming.

"Eisbergfreistadt" ("iceberg free state")
Through 3 July 2008
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10011 map
tel. 646 230 9610

(via CoolHunting)