Swoon and Chris Stain recently pasted up some new work on Franklin Ave in Crown Heights, but it wasn’t long before someone marked it up. Was the image of two women in an embrace too much for someone?
Photo by dietrich on Flickr.
+ The tattoo artists of New York Adorned will show off their talents on larger than life photographs by Epicly Later’d Patrick O’Dell in a live exhibition for the White Box 6 Feet Under festival. (6 to 8 PM at White Box, 525 West 26th St, Manhattan)
+ It’s Not Easy, an exploration of the many cultural, political and environmental meanings of Green organized by Social Environmental Aesthetics, opens at Exit Art tonight and stays on view through August 29. (7 to 10 PM at Exit Art, 475 10th Ave, Manhattan)
+ Paradise Lost, an exhibition of artists emphasizing “the ironic contrast between man’s dependence on and simultaneous obliteration of earth’s resources,” opens tonight at 7Eleven Gallery and remains on view through August 14. (7 to 10 PM at 7Eleven Gallery, 711 Washington Street, Manhattan)
+ Dangerous Women, a group show, in “the tradition of female figure painting, photography and cinema - where even the tamest representation of the female form can be a loaded image,” opens at DFN Gallery tonight and stays on view through August 29. (6 to 8 PM at DFN Gallery, 210 11th Avenue, Manhattan)
“New Day” by Alison Blickle for Dangerous Women.
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The art battle between Melissa Brown and Momo outside Espeis gallery (70 Wythe Avenue at N 11th St, Brooklyn) has come to a halt and moved inside while Dain starts waging war on the wall outdoors. The gallery writes, “Dain will be working on his piece for the next couple of weeks for Espeis Outside. Feel free to stop by and also check the current exhibition inside the Espeis Archetype Gallery by Momo and Melissa Brown.”
Transportation Alternatives is calling for submissions to a new design competition for the intersection of 4th Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. The competition, “Designing the 21st Century Street” asks entrants to create a complete street which better accommodates all users, including pedestrians, cyclists, trucks and cars. While there are no plans to implement the designs, creators of the top designs will be awarded up to $6000. The deadline for registration is July 31, 2008 and all submissions are due by September 2, 2008. [Designing the 21st Century Street]
Photo by Santi-Jose on Flickr.
I.D. Magazine recently announced the winners of its 2008 Annual Design Review. In the Concepts category, Greg Matson and Phil Arias of JWT New York took the top honor for “The Datum Line.”
“If both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, sea levels will rise 80 feet, or, in city terms, 8 stories.” “We propose to turn off every light on the northern Midtown Park Avenue corridor except those on the 8th floor. For a night, pedestrians will be placed under what could be our new waterline. For a night, corporations will demonstrate how to prevent it.”
It’s a good concept for sure, reminiscent of artist Eve Mosher’s high water chalk line and last year’s Sea of People, which simulated what a 10 foot rise in sea level would look like for Step it Up 2007. And clearly, it’s a message that needs to be communicated to more people in new ways.
+ Dark Skate, Lia Halloran’s exhibit of nighttime skate photos opens at DCKT Contemporary. (6 PM at DCKT Contemporary, 195 Bowery at Spring Street, Manhattan)
+ Creative Commons Salon NYC features presentations from Wikia Search, Livable Streets Network, and a special performance from comedian Max Silvestri at TOPP. (7 to 10 PM at The Open Planning Project, 349 W. 12th St, Manhattan)
+ Photographer Brenda Staudenmaier is signing the NSFW Burning Angel book she shot with Joanna Angel. (7PM at Barnes & Noble, 396 6th Ave at 8th Street, Manhattan)
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Best known for Piss Christ, his 1987 image of a crucifix submerged in a glass of his own urine, photographer Andres Serrano is no stranger to controversy. The photograph raised the ire of Senator Jesse Helms and launched a national debate over federal funding for the arts when it was known Serrano had received $15,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts for the piss-soaked work. More recently, Serrano was in the headlines when a group of alleged neo-Nazis entered a Swedish gallery and destroyed photographs from his “History of Sex” series, featuring photos of various sex acts.
This September, Serrano opens two shows concurrently at the Yvon Lambert gallery in New York and Paris. The appropriately titled exhibition, “Shit,” features brightly colored fecal photographs, from various animals and his self, christened with non-biblical names like, “Cute Shit, Evil Shit, Hieronymous Bosch Shit, Romantic Shit and Deep Shit.”
The show opens in New York on September 4th from 6 – 8 PM at Yvon Lambert Gallery (550 W 21st St, Manhattan) and stays up through October 4, 2008.
Photo of shit by Andres Serrano.
White lines of light crisscross and circle the Los Angeles skate parks and ditches of photographer Lia Halloran. Skating these locations at and capturing the image at night, she lets her light trail be the self-portrait and record of the evening. Tonight, ten of Halloran’s photographs are featured in Dark Skate, her second New York solo show, at DCKT Contemporary (195 Bowery at Spring St, New York, NY) from 6 to 8 PM, and stays up through September 13.
