Alex Halley admires the work of artists on display at future home of low-income housing development CAMBA Gardens, in Brooklyn, which will be built in collaboration with Kings County Hospital. The display was organized by public art initiative Artbridge. View the full article: The...
A conversation with the artist behind «the color chronicle» The link between color and emotion is a daily topic at Pantone, where we often pair color values with single words that explain their allure, their importance, and the effect they have on the viewer. As we...
During ArtBridge's WALK yourself! art walk, be sure to head over to DUMBO to check out "Chroma Tweet" by Aleksandar Maćašev. The 400-foot-long installation, running along the historic Empire Stores building, reflects the artist's emotional state from day-to-day, but rather than take to Twitter, Maćašev...
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The construction surrounding Brooklyn’s new Barclays Center may have been an eyesore to some, but a new Artbridge installation is adorning the area with 20 decorative works by local artists. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. In the midst of the frantically paced construction...
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Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project has not always been popular among Brooklynites. Perhaps trying to soften the image of development, his company Forest City Ratner has now teamed up with a non-profit arts organization to bring something other than construction noise to the neighborhood.The Chelsea-based...
BROOKLYN — ArtBridge, the Chelsea-based nonprofit organization best known for transforming construction sites into public exhibition space for local emerging artists, announces its latest installation, “Works in Prog-ress,” opening Oct. 20. The work of 20 emerging artists living or working in Brooklyn will adorn nearly...
Maybe there should be new reality TV show called “Extreme Scaffolding Makeover.” While the urbanSHED competition helped focus attention on the problem of NYC’s drab and uninspired sidewalk-shed design, it’s hardly the only effort to make construction sites more visually appealing to passersby. Ever-more public...