Category Archives: Street Art

I interview Deborah, and Deborah interviews Gwendolyn…Bushwick Curatorial ‘Round Robin

You can read this long piece in the W G Online here. It was a great project, and even if you need some time to parse out our voices, I’d like to think it’s good that we added ‘em to the Bushwick ‘dialogue.’ The above photos were taken by Jason Andrew. I totally want to thank Allen [...]
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Bushwick’s walls touched up and crisp!

How it’s done. Even on cold days. Corner of Varet and Bogart.
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Schmerlreport: 11.10, Zuccotti Park

There is something you can do. You just need to think hard about what it is and then actually DO it. Tiptoed amongst the sleeping occupy-ers after dawn this morning. Schmerlreport: Yes, there is too much that is just plain Wrong going on. Yes, it is worthwhile to resist. And no, you shouldn’t exploit people by taking pictures of [...]
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Renegade knitter strikes again

Corner of Clinton & Schermerhorn: This time with added fuzzies. Other side, smooth with tassles. Sighting of yarn of day over.
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Laser Knuckles; must get some; start writing.

This, from Graffiti Research Lab, creators of GML (Graffiti Markup Language); laser knuckles let you draw by simply pointing at, well, EVERYthing. Laser Knuckles (Prototype) from Evan Roth on Vimeo. Nothing is sacred; everything in the built environment is yours—to trace.* Got it from superb site, Urbanartcore, or rather, which is clear as day to read if you just [...]
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Mosquito shows Trailer Park ‘realness’

Mobile public artwork, parked in Carroll Gardens, outside WORK Gallery. Yes, there were actual mosquitoes that bit; strange, since I encountered not one all day–outside. Weird reality. Needed watering… But a nice, James Turrell-like moment to be had.
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Tescia is the one flinging shoes in Bushwick…

Sorry it took me so long to pick this up. Tescia Seufferlein (sine-qua-non assistant to Andrew Ohanesian) does this shoe-based, glamour-inspired (?!) project all by her lonesome. Simple line: she flings shoes—and here, the really great and utterly readable Bushwick Daily blog reports: Read the rest of the piece here. Does she have an assistant or two, I [...]
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Brooklyn social scene is amazing

Why? Because multi-generational, pan-ethnic, creative-spontaneous happenings are only a serendipitous second away. First: I start my wash at a laundromat and look up to find a South American artist is doing his, too. we talk about the merits of street art. While clothes in dryer, kid runs in from outta nowhere: ‘Mom, DINNER. Time to go.’ Bye [...]
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Mediocrity in Chelsea, but love that Norman Foster bathroom

After a week of seeing excruciatingly mediocre work in Chelsea, I decide that: conversation is the only antidote when beautiful experiences can’t be had for love or money, And: scale is a great comfort. for instance, the bathroom at Sperone Westwater gallery. But I digress. Went to Chelsea with a talented interior designer, Yiannos Vrousgos. Check out his [...]
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Sheila Goloborotko looks for 1001 dreams

Her blog is up. Read about how you can find pillowcases printed with dreams, and then, have your own made onto a pillowcase. She’s inspired, in part, by Carl Jung’s phrase, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Here are some ways in which her material practice impacts things like felt and handmade books; this [...]
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