Author Archives: Jordana
Thursday: AIA's urbanSHED Competition Finalist Presentations
Looking for something different to do this week? Why not stop by the American Institutes of Architects this Thursday evening to see the finalists present their proposals for the re-imagining of the urban shed? Over 150 individuals and design teams responded to the AIA’s Fall ’09 call for entries and after a rigorous juried selection [...]
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Public Art Fund's Call for Entries for "In The Public Realm"
Happy New Year public art makers and appreciators! Our friends over at Public Art Fund have recently put out a call for entries for In the Public Realm 2010, a program that, according to their website, is “designed to champion innovative public art projects by New York-based emerging artists.” As we know from our March [...]
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Public Art, It's in the Air for 2010…
How refreshing and right up the ArtBridge Alley! According to a recently published New York Times Article, Las Vegas-based advertising giant, Show Media, has decided to replace taxi-top advertising with works of art from well-known artists including Yoko Owno, Shirin Neshat and Alex Katz. The venture is reportedly costing the company $100,000 in lost revenues [...]
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Artist in Profile: Dalia Haber
By JORDANA ZELDIN Even when painting, Argentina-born sculptor Dalia Haber recalls that things were “always coming out” of her canvasses. An art teacher at the School of Visual Arts (where she received her BA in Fine Arts) casually remarked one day in class that she drew “like a sculptor.” For one of her early art [...]
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ArtBridge enters AIA's urbanSHED Design Competition
What is an “Urban Shed?” It’s the unsightly scaffolding that’s erected when a building is under construction, the very same thing that ArtBridge transformed into a giant canvas for the works of emerging Artists in March, 2009 on West 23rd Street’s London Terrace Gardens, Believe it or not, there are presently over 1,000,000 linear feet of “shed” [...]
Artist in Profile: Melissa Cowper-Smith
By JORDANA ZELDIN Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist Melissa Cowper-Smith laments society’s collective move towards an “IKEA Culture,” the expendability of the objects in our lives that she remembers as at one time “being sacred for longer.” “People like something for a while and then they simply give it up,” she tells me during our studio visit, [...]
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Artist in Profile: Hidemi Takagi
By JORDANA ZELDIN Walking into photographer Hidemi Takagi’s Clinton Hill apartment feels a bit like I imagine walking into the intensely saturated world of her photos would: lime green walls, candy-red picture frames; it’s bright and cheerful, almost hyper-real. Her two-year old daughter’s primary-colored toys scattered about the apartment fit right in with the surroundings [...]
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ArtBridge Installation on Google Streetview!