My mind spins when I consider the possibilities of using art to turn eyesores into something appealing. Case in point. With a little beta augmented reality app magic, Public Ad Campaign and The Heavy Projects have turned billboards and phone booth ads of Times Square into art. This movie billboard digitally updated with a Ron English reminds of the days when cowboys peddled Malboro instead of fighting aliens.
Making the Big Apple small. Local students and a handful of personalities (Opie of "& Anthony", Isaac Mizrahi, Jamel Shabazz…) collected video footage from every street in the city, creating an interactive map that provides a look at the Apple through a prism of "diverse perspectives, viewpoints, and cultural histories."
Project Neon is documenting all the the neon signs around New York City that we can all enjoy via Tumblr and in the near future, an iPhone app thanks to some Kickstarter funding. So happens that neon is on my art hit list that I need to own so the timing is nice.
At Tanya Bonakdar, Gillian Wearing stages something of a selective mini-retrospective, showing major works produced since her last solo in New York, back in 2003.
Sculptures of steel, aluminum, fiberglass and cinderblocks are drawing stares from tourists and toddlers alike in City Hall Park. Via.
Sculptor Alan Wolfson created his Canal Street Cross-Section as a kind of doll's house model of Canal Street from street level to the subways below, combining real, imaginary, and displaced elements of the NYC he loves. (via)
How would you improve New York City's public realm? Urban Design Week want to know..and do something about it!
No matter how hard NYC can be to live in, there's no place like it. Check out this new release that showcases an unparalleled compilation of mostly unpublished photographs of New York City and its boroughs taken by established and emerging artists.
