Good news: Shepard Fairey says he’s not going blind, but his eyes aren’t without complications. “[W]hen I was in NY last summer for my show at Jonathan’s, I just had a bleed in my right eye and the whole time I was working on that show I only had partial vision in my right eye. But, I was still able to work, I could still paint and cut, and do what I need to do.” “Eventually I got the bleeds in both eyes and they had to do the surgery.” [ANIMAL]
Through May, The Threat of Chance, featuring the work of Josh MacPhee, Billy Mode, Chris Stain and The Polaroid Kidd, will be on display at Ad Hoc Art (49 Bogart Street, Brooklyn). The gallery is built out into a railroad shanty town full of paintings, stencils, photographs and signs. A handful of photos are here, but you can’t fully appreciate it unless you explore it in person.
According to ANIMAL, famed street artist Shepard Fairey may be losing his eyesight. “According to one source close to Fairey, he could be legally blind by the end of the year.” [ANIMAL]
The East River is not only home to tagged up turtles, but dead bodies, and starting this summer, man-made waterfalls as well. Artist Olafur Eliasson created this Pier 35 contraption which, along with three others at the Brooklyn Bridge, Governors Island and below Brooklyn Heights, will start gushing water sometime in July. Circle Line will be operating “special in depth tours” of the waterfalls, but you can also avoid tourists and check them out from the shoreline and East River bridges for free.
Bushwick Brooklyn 2008 (mixed media on wall) by danwitz on Flickr
Artist Dan Witz has some new stickers up for Ugly New Buildings 2008. (via C-Monster)
Over the last year or so, the concrete slab on the corner of Houston and Bowery has taken on several unique incarnations. HOST18 and TABOO painted some illegal pieces on the wall in November 2006. Unfortunately they were soon covered up with a legal mural by JACE, who was in town to paint 11 Spring Street. HOST18 and TABOO had their final word over the mural and 11 Spring Street for that matter. MISS 17 and REMO came along and bombed it too, before the legal OMNI mural went up.
Now, a Keith Haring mural that lived on the slab for a brief time in the early ‘80s is making a comeback. The Keith Haring Foundation and Deitch Projects are working to recreate the fluorescent mural to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Haring’s birth on May 4th.
“The concept of recreating a mural is not necessarily something we would ordinarily agree to,” Ms. Gruen said, noting the technical resources needed to re-create, as opposed to simply restore or repair, an artwork. “It was really the fact that the wall still exists that made this so attractive.”
The mural, Haring’s first major outdoor project, existed for a few months before its Day-Glo colors began to fade under the sun. Haring then painted over the work, destroying his own creation before it could further decompose.
Several artists were at work on the mural this morning, and it looks like they’ll be finished this week.
Following video of Joshua Allen Harris’ inflatable polar bear, comes this monster sculpture.
+ Gold Sprints Party: sweat, booze, art, music and bikes. Monster Track may be canceled, but the party goes on. (Third Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn)
+ Prepare for Glory: photos, paintings, illustration, shenanigans and merriment. (Saved Gallery, 3 Hope St, Brooklyn)
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+ Hamburger Eyes, the San Francisco based, film-loving, photozine-makers, celebrate the release of their first book, Hamburger Eyes: Inside Burgerworld, with an exhibit at powerHouse Arena opening tonight at 6 (37 Main St, DUMBO, Brooklyn). Watch a video about them at XLR8R.
+ Jordan Eagles opens a show of blood art at Merge Gallery (205 West 20th Street, Chelsea). Eagles has been experimenting with blood as a medium for 10 years which makes us wonder whether Dash Snow will be jerking off on the NY Post as long.
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