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Warhol statue in Union Sq

5 Apr

A massive monument honoring Andy Warhol — the late, great Father of Pop Art is at the new pedestrian plaza in Union Square.
The nearly 10-foot-tall statue by visual artist Rob Pruitt is set up outside a building at Broadway and 17th Street that housed the final rendition of Warhol’s legendary “Factory” from 1973 to 1984.

Warhol and his contemporaries previously produced silkscreen paintings, magazines and other works out of a site a block away from 1967 to 1973. The original Warhol “Factory” on E. 47th Street operated from 1962 to 1967.

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New York Subway, 1986

30 Mar

Times Square, 1986: This video gives you a look back into 1986 nearly 25 years ago. Shot with a 16mm film camera, the footage captures the bustling excitement of the Time Square station.


Blonde in the city

24 Mar


Marilyn Monroe in 1955

Marilyn Monroe: probably the most celebrated of all actresses, a bombshell extraordinaire whose countless adoring fans included paramours Arthur Miller and JFK. And yet, her life story is an early example of the tragic consequences of fame, marked by unhappy marriages, drug addictions and frequent attempts to define herself as a serious artist. These images of Monroe by Ed Feingersh, recently uncovered by photography collector Michael Ochs, offer an unusually intimate portrait of the Hollywood icon during her 1955 move to New York, where she came to train at the Lee Strasberg Actors Studio. Relaxed and candid, they reveal the lonely side of Monroe, recently divorced from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and desperately seeking new inspiration.

Marilyn made only 30 films in her lifetime, but her legendary status and mysticism will remain with film history forever.

“The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to…I don’t know…block the grimness. The whole world seemed sort of closed to me…(I felt) on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend-game.”
Marilyn Monroe

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Hussle and bussle (NEW YORK) 1983

23 Mar

Take a trippy trip through the streets of NYC circa 1983 with Rick Liss’s stop-motion short No York City.

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“Quentin vs. Coen” Art Show NYC

19 Mar


Spoke Art presents “Quentin vs. Coen – An art show tribute to the films of Tarantino and the Brothers,” a followup to last yearʼs highly successful “Bad Dads – a tribute to Wes Anderson.” For “Quentin vs. Coen,” Spoke Art has arranged a battle royal-style art show featuring over 100 world-class artists from the new contemporary art scene. Painters, screen printers and digital artists were invited to reinterpret their favorite scenes, characters and films from the heralded directors, resulting in an eclectic showing of inspirational fine art. No restrictions were placed on content or subject matter, allowing each artist to choose their personal favorite scenes, films and characters. With over 100 artists, “Quentin vs. Coen” offers a broad range of affordable prints and also fine art works. The show opens on Thursday, April 7 at Bold Hype Gallery in New York City and will be on view until Saturday, April 9, 2011.

Bold Hype Gallery
547 W. 27th St.
5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
United States
Tel: 212.868.2322

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Japan society

17 Mar

At New York’s Japan society, the exhibition ‘bye bye kitty!!!: between heaven and hell in contemporary japanese art’ features the works of sixteen artists engaging in critical dialogue with tradition and contemporary culture.

Detail of makoto aida’s ‘harakiri school girls’ (2002), part of the ‘bye bye kitty!!!’ exhibition at new york’s japan society image © makoto aida, courtesy of mizuma art gallery

Many of the works sample from traditional aesthetics: a large triptych by hisashi tenmyouya treats the subject of battle in imagery characteristic of traditional depictions, but illustrates the feral brutality of war rather than the expected lofty religious imagery. likewise, yamaguchi akira’s ‘Narita international airport’ adopts the perspective of seventeenth century illustrations of kyoto, but with airplanes circling the skies and the classic misty clouds cast in a yellow suggestive of pollution. Other works include the debut of  Kohei Nawa’s ‘pixcell-deer #24’, a taxidermized deer whose skin has been covered with different sized plastic beads; large-scale paperwork installations by Tomoko Shioyasu and Haruka Kojin; and Chiharu Shiota’s ‘dialogue with absence’, which links a painted wedding dress, pumps, tubing, and red-dyed water.

yamaguchi akira's 'narita international airport' (2005)
Yamaguchi akira’s ‘narita international airport’ (2005)
Chiharu Shiota’s ‘dialogue with absence’ (2010) on exhibition in paris image courtesy of galerie christophe gaillard

Bye Bye Kitty!!!
Japan Society, New York, USA
March 18th – June 12th, 2011
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Brush Love

16 Mar Artist Kimyon Huggins


Brooklyn-based artist Kimyon Huggins has his creative hands in music and painting, his music lights up the dance floor while his paintings are visually dazzling and unique, the brush strokes are truly strokes of love. Stay tune for more incredible work form this all around creative artist.

All photo’s and art work by Brooklyn artist Kimyon Huggins.

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Two Legs One Heart

17 Feb

Johan Lindeberg’s BLK DNM
The Swedish fashion designer looked to De Thurah, whose surreal music videos for the likes of Fever Ray and James Blake he cites as an ongoing source of inspiration, to channel the brand’s downtown conceit: “I wanted the film to embody all of the qualities that I love about New York—its depth and nerve, its capacity to be a bit anarchistic, yet still human and inspiring.” Embracing a post-apocalyptic, spectral mood, the Danish director’s short outfits actors Iva Gocheva, Bogdan Kwiatkowski and Kate Lyn Sheil in lambskin motorcycle leather jackets, merino wool cardigans and sulfur-dyed denim for a tale that swings from indie intellectualism to dark fantasy.

Ink on paper

9 Feb


By Evol Huggins

New YORK Roof Tops

9 Feb

Hot Summer day on the roof tops of new york city, nothing is better than a birds eye view.

By Evol Huggins

Song in my head

05 This Is How We Walk On The Moon

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