The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has just launched a web series - 100 episodes in two minute increments - where curators talk about art that has changed the way we see the world.
Here is the link to 82nd & 5th.
A new 5PTZ website has been launched for the new year. There are cleaner
galleries, more videos, and more features; walls, art,
news, and overall freshness as things progress.
Check the site out, send them flicks if you have any fresh ones from the spot. Be sure to check back often as new content will be making its way up regularly. click here to view the site
Images of the Week: 02.17.13Guess
it shouldn’t surprise us when we find out that the sticker,
wheat-paste, or mural we published of “Street Art” or graffiti actually
turns out to be a logo or promotion for someone who is selling sneakers,
t-shirts, lip-gloss, tampons, or toe fungus spray. That’s how people
pay the rent, yo!
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BAST Collection for FALL 2013 Hits The StreetsFashion Week in New York means more models than usual on the subway and on the sidewalk. Poor us.
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BSA Film Friday: 02.15.13
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
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BSA Loves You More Every Day: Happy Valentines DayAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Blue Abstraction from Doug Fogelson in ChicagoThe
new Street Art Abstraction we’ve been talking about continues apace in
the public sphere, perhaps buffeted by current shows like MoMA’s
Inventing Abstraction and the 100th anniversary of the earth shaking
Armory Show that turned modern art on its head.
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Sheryo and the Dubai CamelYou’ve seen her work here for about a year and a half, since Singaporean Street Artist settled in Brooklyn and began painting New York walls in earnest with people like the Australian Yok, Brooklyn’s Bishop 203, and TopDos from Paris. In fact her New York campaign with Yok last year covered so many walls (especially [...] |
Street Artist RUBBISH for Le M.U.R. in ParisRubbish, the French Street Artist who can work for endless hours to finely cut paper as intricately as lace, is taking his turn at the Le M.U.R wall in Paris right now. Still pretty new to the scene, the Besançon based artist has a meticulous cutting method influenced by painting, mythology, even Art Nouveau. Recent [...] |
Images of the Week: 02.10.13Here’s
our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Allen
Ruppersberg, CB23, CYFI, Danielle Mastrion, Elle, False, KO, Left Handed
Wave, Matt Siren, Spud, Stikman, and Tomek.
Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo) Allen Ruppersberg “You & Me” at The High Line Park, Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo) CB23 (photo © Jaime Rojo) Matt [...] |
Specter in Puerto Escondido, MexicoToday New York and most of the northeast US is completely clobbered and somewhat paralyzed with snow from a giant blizzard so we thought we’d show you photos from a surf town of 26,000 residents in Mexico called Puerto Escondido where their annual Carnaval started yesterday. Brooklyn based Street Artist Specter is working in the [...] |
BSA Film Friday 02.08.13
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
BSA Special Feature:
JR: Blow UP ABOVE: Blood Diamond KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS: A Thousand Lights From a Hundred Skies |
Remixing The Face in a Stinky Underground Subway HallwayA walk through the neglected and crumbling grime-caked subway stations of New York City, with their epically peeling paint and the smell of smeared human feces rushing you through hallways to your next train, can be a nauseating and dispiriting. Mayors come and go, but rats and garbage remain, helping New York to “keep it [...] |
Cat People and Dog People ; Street Artists Bring Trusted FriendsStreet Artists are just as attached to their pets as anybody else, and given their reputation for being sort of secretive loners, maybe more. It’s not common but the appearance of cats and dogs on the street without leashes happens once in a while in carefully rendered drawings, illustrations, paintings, stencils, wheatpastes and stickers. C215 (photo [...] |
Liqen and Nantu Shipwrecked in Equador: A Girl, The Ocean and Her HairStreet Artists Liqen and Nantu just finished this wall in Tosunpa, Equador on the side of a small storefront. Using primarily black paint and paint brushes, the two create a reposed nymph looking skyward, her head surrounded by rolling waves, a somewhat tumultuous adventure on the high seas with dolphins, a whale, and a troubled [...] |
“I particularly feel graffiti beautifies blighted areas, and gives them style and dignity.” ~ Laura Schecter
Brooklyn born contemporary realist painter Laura Schecter takes
cityscapes and graffiti into consideration as a formalist and you may
even say with an element of romanticism. With abstract painter and
“father of minimalism” Ad Rhinehardt as a teacher at Brooklyn [...]
Nick Moskaluk enjoys hearing everyone’s story, which is why graffiti on railroad cars intrigues him. Every car has a story as it travels coast to coast, and the art along the sides perfectly expresses that journey.
“Too many people are very quick to dismiss the graffiti that covers these rail cars off as vandalism and I guess it could be hard to argue against that but you have to respect the effort that goes into making any one of these pieces. Maybe it’s the colours, the shapes, the tag lines or the unique murals but I think the one thing that keeps pulling me back to shooting these pieces is the mystery of who, when, where and why they were done.”
So many of us have highly sophisticated and expensive cameras but there is a lot you can do with a simple smartphone camera. In fact, it has spurred a movement. According to the Guardian, your mobile phone may be your best camera because you always have it with you. And the quality of the shots are pretty good. I love the spontaneity of the idea and am inclined to agree about its value.
And, as the Guardian says, there are so many great apps to make a dull photo fabulous:
But, for many, the initial snap is just the start. It's the raw material for a new creative process. Most mobile phone cameras take very dull photos. But it doesn't matter, because there are hundreds of apps to help you turn them into something amazing. And that's what's really at the heart of it. Costing pennies, mobile photography apps give you the creative power of Photoshop, and more besides, without being tied to your desk. This makes mobile photography incredibly liberating for the creative photographic spirit. Suddenly, every free moment is an opportunity to both take and craft images. These apps have accelerated the creative process, as well as allowing you, quite simply, to be more creative, more of the time, for less money.
I say, snap away and just enjoy all the results however you decide to apply them!
On the evening of Grand Central Terminal’s 100th birthday, 135 Improv Everywhere participants staged a surprise performance in the grand windows on the terminal’s west side.
Equipped with a variety of LED flashlights and camera flashes, performers appeared suddenly and unannounced along three floors of windows, creating a shower of light for the commuters and tourists below.
This project took place at the invitation of MTA Arts for Transit as part of the centennial celebration of Grand Central Terminal.
Enjoy the video!
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