Freshness Mag takes a peek at the soon-to-be launched Air Force One site 1thology. Nike has begun celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Air Force 1 shoe. The 1thology site is a comprehensive collection of over 900 Air Force 1s, able to be sorted by a variety of filters including date, color and style. The website also lets you create a poster featuring your favorite shoes, as well as offering a few other goodies. 1thology will launch on April 11th.
Photo from Freshness Mag
Tomorrow night, Jonathan Levine Gallery will hold an opening reception for Desperate, Rejected & Angry, a solo show by Dalek and Psychonauts, a solo show by Mars-1. Both shows will be on display until April 28, 2007.
Dalek just did an interview with Fecal Face, including the new paintings he’s been working on.
March 31 - April 28, 2007
Opening reception - Saturday, March 31st, 7pm-9pm
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 W. 20th Street, 9E
New York, NY 10011
When REVS says, “I like people that just do what they do, whether it makes sense or it don’t” he’s describing himself and the persistence with which he’s made his name across the city. Whether pasting COST & REVS across the city, painting giant on rooftops, recording his life story on the subway tunnels, or welding metal sculptures on the street, REVS has consistently innovated with the biggest and baddest work in New York City. If anything doesn’t make sense, it’s that he’s kept the mystery all these years, while others sell sneakers, t-shirts and videos.
In the NY Times article by Randy Kennedy, REVS said, “Once money changes hands for art, it becomes a fraudulent activity.” Clearer copies of the photos we provided for that article can be seen here and here. Soon after the story ran, most of the sculptures pictured disappeared. Consider that as you watch REVS installing one of his metal sculptures, the 400 pound, Teenage Piece.
Skidface, Brooklyn’s Spring Series of skids, sprints and freestyle starts tomorrow night. Tricycle and Fortyninesixteen are sponsoring the competition starting at 8 PM under the BQE at Graham Ave and happens every Friday night from March 30th to April 27th. Each week costs $5 and the winner takes all in the end. MessNYC says:
This is not your same old skids but a creative comp with an alley cat between series……Bring it back to the streets!!!
The X-Men are a gang of NYC bike messengers featured in “Need for Speed,” the 1994 documentary on the city’s messengers, and although they’ve never graced a comic book, they’re super heroes in their own right. Exhibit A: their bike skills. Exhibit B: their gear. Exhibit C: their gear. Now watch the rest: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
(via Trackosaurus Rex)
Artist Jessica Williams created an archive of people’s self-portraits taken while crying. Whether they’re onion tears or sorrow, the photos in I’m Too Sad to Tell You are captivating, disturbing and even funny.
You can still submit your own self-portrait if you need a good cry before the weekend.
Photo from I’m Too Sad to Tell You by Arion Ellis Potts.
Untitled, Marcos Rosales
Marcos Rosales is currently exhibiting some new paintings and sculptures at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in Williamsburg, which we checked out this past weekend. The exhibit, “Excerpts from the Demons of Diversity”, draws on pieces of his written work and reinterprets the texts into the black enamel paintings and macramé sculptures stretched and hung between them. On the amorphous sculptures, the gallery writes:
“They are both a three-dimensional incarnation of the language-based content of the paintings and a metaphoric connective tissue directly referencing the black ink scribbles which concealed information from Rosales’s biological history.”
The solo show, “Excerpts from the Demons of Diversity” opened this past weekend and runs through April 22, 2007.
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
438 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Friday through Sunday, 12-6 PM
Next Wednesday April 4th, there will be a release party for the book Public Wall Writing in Philadelphia. The book chronicles the roots of modern graffiti in the city from which it originated. The photographs, pulled mostly from the Temple University photo archives and the authors private stock, document wall writing in Philly as far back as the 1960s. The book is published by Free News Projects and Megawords Magazine.
The party will feature audio/visual installations by Megawords. Copies of Public Wall Writing in Philadelphia will be available for $20.00 as well as a limited number of Megawords magazine issue 6 for free.
Wednesday, April 4th, 7:00-10:00pm
Maysles Institute
343 Lenox Street
The New York Times writes that the Neckface Vans billboard that got splashed earlier this month was replaced. Also, see how they so innocently drop Cam’ron’s line, “Go get your wet wipes,” in the lead paragraph.
On Thursday night, Ad Hoc Art in Brooklyn hosts an art show benefiting the Miss Rockway Armada and featuring work by some great artists, including Swoon, GoreB, Tod Seelie, David Ellis, ElbowToe, The Barnstormers, and more. Show up and help Miss Rockaway get the junk raft back on the river, spreading wisdom and cheer. The show runs through April 1.
Thursday, March 29th, 6 PM
Ad Hoc Art (www.adhocart.org)
49 Bogart St., Brooklyn NY 11206
