A mural on a building at the corner of 6th Avenue and 17th street in New York City of an artist spray painting an I Love NY Mural with an aerosol can.
Sunday, 8 February 2015
I Love New York Mural
A mural on a building at the corner of 6th Avenue and 17th street in New York City of an artist spray painting an I Love NY Mural with an aerosol can.
No Limits Exhibit Empire State Building
New York is a city in constant motion, and in a new public art exhibition, even the skyscrapers seem to be getting in on the action.
Steel sculptures of 10 prominent city buildings dot the median strip of Park Avenue between 54th Street and 67th Street in Manhattan as part of contemporary artist Alexandre Arrechea's No Limits installation. But passersby can be forgiven if they don't instantly recognize the structures. Each has been given a tweak that, as the project's statement explains, it plays on the idea of elastic architecture as a metaphor for the challenges and opportunities of shifting conditions and new realities.
Here the Empire State Building is coiled into six foot wide octagon.
Groovin High By Faith Ringgold
The High Line is a 1-mile New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile section of the elevated former New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. A similar project in Paris, the 3-mile Promenade plant? completed in 1993, was the inspiration for this project. The High Line currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. Formerly the viaduct of the High Line went as far south as Spring Street just north of Canal Street, but the lower section was demolished in 1960.The recycling of the railway into an urban park has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line.
For the High Line, Ringgold has revisited her colorful and paradigmatic story quilt Groovin High (1986), one of the many story quilts Ringgold created that inspired a revival of the medium in the late 1970s. Depicting a crowded dance hall bordered by quilted hand-dyed fabrics, Groovin High is evocative of Ringgold?s memories of Sunday afternoon dances at the Savoy and her connection to the African American communities of her native Harlem. Her style reflects formal treatments of shape, color, and perspective reminiscent of many painters whose styles defined the Harlem Renaissance, an immensely productive and creative cultural movement of the 1920s that erupted out of the African American community living in the eponymous New York neighborhood.
Space for the High Line Billboard is donated by ParkFast.com and is changed every several months.
Human Nature Exhibit 2
Nine 16-to 20-foot-tall, human-shaped stone figures by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone, will transform Rockefeller Center, inhabiting the plaza between 49th and 50th Streets as if transported from another time. The work, Human Nature, will be free to the public and was on view from April 23 through June 7, 2013.
Human Nature is a stark contrast to its highly developed architectural surroundings in Midtown Manhattan. The figures will populate the plaza where the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is displayed, the massive forms of their legs and shoulders forming post-and-lintel structures beneath and among which visitors will be able to walk.
Olmec Head
On display in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on 1st Avenue and 47th street in New York City, the Olmec Head donated by the State of Veracruz was available to view until May 5th, 2013.
This stone and dust temporary sculpture is a replica of the first majestic Olmec head to be uncovered in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan in 1964.
Standing over ten feet tall, the facial features of "The King" correspond to what was considered beautiful at the time: a slight strabismus, deformed cranium, amd ear covers.
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