Tag Archives: art

Morning View – Subway Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein’s 1994 Times Square Mural in the 42nd Street station is too long to get into one shot, but this center panel with the flying train is my favorite bit. A 6-foot-high, 53-foot-long panel that revisits the history of New York transportation, the first panel shows a portion of an arch rendered to resemble tile and masonry, the materials …

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Shepard Fairey On Rick Warren

Shepard Fairey, the creator of the Obama campaign’s most iconic image also drew the cover of this week’s TIME Magazine Person Of The Year issue. But Fairey has mixed feelings over the honor. From last Friday: “Tomorrow my illustration for Time Magazine’s “Person of The Year” hits the newsstands. While I’m very honored to be validated by a periodical that …

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Morning View – Prayer Station

Dr. Jeff sends in this shot of the Prayer Station he came across on the Upper East Side. It’s an art installation. Dylan Mortimer’s work deals with how private faith functions in the public realm. The interactive Public Prayer Booth is a synthesis of a telephone booth and a prayer station. The viewer can flip down a kneeler and engage …

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Banksy On Wall Street

I’m not all that wild about street artist Banksy, but this billboard-sized bit about Wall Street (put up in Soho, I think) made me laugh. Note that “real” graffiti artists have already tagged it with “damn rats.” (Via – Gothamist/Jake Dobkin)

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David Byrne’s Bike Racks

Art rocker David Byrne has designed nine temporary bike racks which have been installed around town as part of the Summer Streets program I’ve been raving about. The dollar sign is naturally on Wall Street, the high heel is in front of Bergdorf’s, and the reclining woman is in Times Square, although today’s tourists may not get the reference. The …

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The Waterfalls Are Flowing

Artist Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls installations on the East River have begun flowing today, but probably don’t give quite the intended thrill when the weather is as dark and gloomy as it is right now. The four waterfalls will run through October 13th, 7am -10pm. Via Gothamist, here’s some good viewing spots. I’ll put up some pictures later as they come …

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Art From Steve MacIsaac

Artist and JMG reader Steve MacIsaac sent me this neat drawing he did, which is taken from my first vidcast. Me like. No wrinkles! You may recall that I also got a nice drawing last year from Fuzzbelly. Check out some of MacIsaac’s great work here. (Possibly NSFW). I like the “Shirtlifter” series – those are filed under “comics”.

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Death Clock

Via Slog – A clock, by artist Bertrand Planes, that’s been slowed down 61320 times, so that each line represents a year in the average human life. It’s set to 84 years. Tick, tick, tick. I don’t know, maybe a digital countdown of the rest of your lifespan might be more dramatic.

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Food Fight

“An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.” I liked the suicide falafel. Here’s a cheat sheet if somehow you don’t which foods represent which countries.

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Lisa del Giocondo

Mystery solved. Experts at the Heidelberg University library say dated notes scribbled in the margins of a book by its owner in October 1503 confirm once and for all that Lisa del Giocondo was indeed the model for one of the most famous portraits in the world. “All doubts about the identity of the Mona Lisa have been eliminated by …

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Xtian Right Begin Miller Boycott

From the Catholic League: Catholic League president Bill Donohue announced a national boycott of Miller Beer on this morning’s “Fox and Friends.” He explains why today: “Never have we experienced greater corporate arrogance than in this dispute with the Miller Brewing Company. Miller is sponsoring an incredibly outrageous and palpably anti-Christian event in San Francisco: the Folsom Street Fair (see …

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Miller Brewing Folds Over Folsom Poster

Bowing to pressure from Christian activists, Miller Brewing, the primary sponsor of Folsom Street Fair, has asked fair organizers to remove its logo from their Last Supper poster. Right-wing news outlets and forums like Free Republic (“Miller Supports Gay Sadomasochistic Orgies On San Francisco Streets!”) have been humming with “outraged” calls for a boycott of Miller and demands that readers …

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Busy News Day For Elton John

At last night’s Elton John AIDS Foundation fundraiser at the Waldorf-Astoria, Elton announced a $300,000 gift to NYC schools. The money is directed to buy computers to help teach HIV/AIDS awareness to low-income middle school students, part of a $3.1M grant to the National Urban Technology Center. The gift to NYC will allow the agency to double its service from …

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Morning View – Garden In Transit

A massive rolling art project called Garden In Transit features hand-painted adhesive flowers affixed to the roofs, hoods and trunks of NYC’s cabs. Ninety percent of the work was done by local schoolchildren, with the rest done by kids from around the country. The project started last week and runs through December. The artwork removes without damaging the vehicle and …

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