May not be safe for work, but chances are you’ve already seen the work. And you’re lying if you say it hasn’t made you smile. Via workbookproject.com.
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Obscene NYC prepared the stage-by-stage “visual history of Shepard Fairey’s May Day Mural Beef,” above. If nothing else, the wall has certainly provided a lot of bloggers with fodder, even when we’re across the country on vacation. (Most recent updates from Jeremiah and Grieve; is there anything to report about the satellite installation at Music Hall of Williamsburg? Last time I was there it was still under special security.)
I still think my favorite moments at Bowery and Houston have been when the Os Gemeos mural peeked through, bristling with life. (My photo below.) This thing, according to Deitch Projects, is supposed to be up through the end of the year. I can’t imagine it surviving the summer.
Tags: Bowery, graffiti, Shepard Fairey
OK, I’m not exactly inciting our readers to vandalism of gallery-sponsored graffiti, but like EV Grieve and Bowery Boogie I’ve been keeping an eye on the ongoing destruction of the Shepard Fairey wall of shame at Bowery and Houston. It really is a miserable piece, especially following the brilliant Os Gemeos and the temporary restoration of a Keith Haring that had stood at the same spot long ago.
I think the little bits of Os Gemeos peeking through are a serious improvement over the dour, shouldn’t-we-be-a-little-past-this-easy-sort-of-ironic work by Fairey. Don’t they just sparkle coming through that Soviet-Target mess?
Someone else just wants the Haring back.
And here we see evidence of the floral ejaculate paste-job that Jeremiah photographed on 10th street a few days back.
Viva la street! It’s hard not to see this as the public demanding something better on that corner. Nobody messed with the Os Gemeos, did they?
Tags: Bowery, graffiti, Keith Haring, Os Gemeos, Shepard Fairey
As ususal, I’m spending my Friday below 14th Street in Manhattan. Hooray for the Internets!
Kevin Walsh heads out to Brighton Beach and Coney Island [Forgotten NY]
And we hear rumors that the new amusement park will be named after an old one [Amusing the Zillion]
Willing to brave the cold? Take a self-guided graffiti tour of Bushwick and East Williamsburg [offManhattan]
Late link to photos of a late lunch with Pale Male [Urban Hawks]
Sunday lecture: Kerouac in Queens [NYC Parks & Rec]
Worst neighborhood name in New York history? Linoleumville, Staten Island, though some commentators would vote for Flushing instead. [Ephemeral New York]
And finally: Video montage of burned-out Bronx cityscapes in the 70s and 80s [Welcome to Melrose; h/t BoogieDowner]
Tags: animals, Bronx, Brooklyn, coney island, graffiti, Queens, Staten Island
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