Sunday, May 30, 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Said

Big face

Iglesia el Tabernaculo Inc Evangelica


Storefront church on Grand St.

Rooftop supergraffiti


Giant graffiti on top of a Chelsea warehouse, as seen from the Highline.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Pizza, face


Since my first photo of this artist, I realized I've been seeing his/her work all over the neighborhood.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Say ahh...


This is probably not the same artist as the other face tags, but I love it too.

Why Dictators Love Kitsch


Why Dictators Love Kitsch, by Eric Gibson at the Wall Street Journal.

Anonymous Arts Recovery Society


John Freeman Gill writes about the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society in The Atlantic. Photo by John Bartelstone.
Far earlier than just about anyone else, Ivan C. Karp recognized that many of New York’s late-Victorian stone and terra-cotta facade ornaments—keystones, plaques, and friezes, even those that embellished tenements and rowhouses—were artworks in their own right. Spurred to action by their wholesale destruction at a time of galloping development, Karp spent several years scooping up the forsaken fragments by himself, before joining forces with a few friends whom he led on clandestine raids of demolition sites. In homage to the immigrant artisans who had created the unsigned ornaments, Karp named the group the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society.

And the Anonymous Arts Museum in Charlotteville, NY:
Anonymous Arts Museum
606-610 Charlotte Valley Road
Charlotteville, NY
Open Sundays only from 10 am - 3 pm. Free.
607.397.8606

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Say no to violins


Finally took a photo of this great art around the corner from my home.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Le Fanion

Le Fanion, 299 W 4th St in the West Village.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Vocabulary

Social studies vocabulary at Brooklyn Comprehensive High.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010