Rooftop supergraffiti

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

Pizza, face

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

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

Say no to violins

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

-O-Glyphics

A strange exploration of glyphs and wingdings.

Origins of Nursery Rhymes

History and lore of nursery rhymes.

Le Fanion

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

Vocabulary

Social studies vocabulary at Brooklyn Comprehensive High.

Anonymous Graffiti

Another orange

Another found sculpture of an orange on the street, this time in NoHo.

More abstract graffiti

Rambo Ponyboy Xavior Godson

Billboard graffiti, north of the BQE in Greenpoint.

Greek Orthodox emblem

This plaque is on the Greek Orthodox church in Greenpoint, on the south end of McCarren Park.

On top of the Williamsburg Bridge

This plaque on the bridge is popular spot for graffiti. It's always hit or miss.

Seneca Sawmill

I love spray-painted logos on lumber.

Supersonic Human

Felix Baumgartner attempts to break the speed of sound with his body.

Maira Kalman at the ICA

Maira Kalman fabric for Michael Maharam.


From Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadeplhia.

Abstract graphic graffiti II

More from this artist...

Found sculpture

Found this sculpture on Meserole St.

Sveinn Davíðsson

Sveinn Davíðsson

Target icons by Eight Hour Day

Used in-store and online, these icons act as visual aids for nearly twenty different job descriptions within Target stores and distribution centers.

Eight Hour Day is a husband-and-wife graphics and illustration firm, based in Minneapolis.

Toshiro Mifune

Nonsensical Infographics

Nonsensical Infographics by 1chord & a fib, on Flickr.