The photo series “Red Hook Look” by local youth mentor, photographer, and videographer Alden Parkinson centers on community members such as a local basketball coach, a school crossing guard, fruit stall vendors, and neighborhood kids, which the artist hopes will provide a counter-narrative to the...
Red Hook Houses is the first NYCHA campus to host a new public art project that repurposes temporary construction fencing and sidewalk sheds into a wide range of large-scale photography, digital print works, murals, and mixed-media art installations to improve the pedestrian experience and increase...
Red Hook Houses is the first NYCHA campus to host a multi-part series of artist fellowships operated under the City Canvas pilot program, an initiative of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs that repurposes construction fencing and sidewalk sheds in to a wide range of...
Black Lives Matter “Artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos.’’ James Baldwin Art is never apolitical. And curation is never accidental. For 11 years, ArtBridge's primary mission has been to transform the eyesore of construction fencing into a public...
"It makes people look up": the street artists taking over scaffolding. Construction work in New York City is practically a proverb – there’s always loud drilling and banging on a set of scaffolding somewhere. But while New Yorkers might see the green-painted plywood construction slabs practically everywhere...
More than a hundred people, including city officials and area residents, gathered on Saturday to unveil a new mural commemorating three pedestrians killed in recent years near the Myrtle-Wyckoff intersection on the border of Ridgewood and Bushwick. The mural, which runs along the back of Duane...
Active Design in Schools projects included interactive indoor and outdoor murals and play spaces. The Health Department today announced the completion of the 2018 Active Design in Schools program to promote physical activity for children. This year, the program created...
The images are simple, the colors are bright and the message is positive. Every day life for people walking 207th Street near Bainbridge Avenue just got a little sunnier thanks to a 40′ x 12′ mural designed by artist Laura Avarez, painted...
The piece of literal street art, which fills a historic corridor in New York's Chinatown, has become a popular attraction. Chen Dongfan, a painter trained in mainland China but now living mostly in New York City, has painted a 200-foot-long mural on the asphalt...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) loves where he is from. Sure, the South Shore of Staten Island has the beautiful parks, Victorian-style homes and historic landmarks like the Conference House. (Sidenote: Uber Eats recently expanded there, too). But there is one thing Borelli wanted...