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ArtBridge Installation on Google Streetview!
The title of this post says it all. Have a look for yourself HERE. Seen any other public art around the City captured with Street View? Send us your screen shots and we’ll post a few of our favorites next week!
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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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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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Artist in Profile: Jennifer Bell
By JORDANA ZELDIN Painter Jennifer Bell has been making art for as long as she can remember. While other young girls played Tea Party, setting up their stuffed animals in a circle around plastic teacups and cookies, Bell played Art Class with hers. On fishing trips with her dad she would spend the day below [...]
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Artist in Profile: Xanda McCagg
By JORDANA ZELDIN In the artist statement on her website, Chelsea-based abstract painter Xanda McCagg (pronounced zan-da) sites her fascination with “human experience” as the driving force in her work. Human Experience—it’s a broad idea, sure, but when I ask her to elaborate, she demonstrates what she means in physical terms. “I’m interested in how [...]
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Artist Profile: Jonathan Flaum, A Life on the High Line
While many of us here in New York are hearing about the High Line for the very first time thanks to recent completion of a ten-year project that turned an abandoned elevated railroad track running along the West side of Chelsea into an accessible public park space, it could be said that photographer Jonathan Flaum is more familiar with the once forbidden territory than just about anyone in the City.
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Maya Barkai’s "Walking Men 99" unveiled at 99 Church Street