News & Press
21 Oct Barclays Center Construction Offset By “Works In Progress” Art Installation, NY 1
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...
20 Oct Atlantic Yards Get Artsy; Tenants Plan East Village Protest, Curbed
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15 Oct Photos of the Week, The Wall Street Journal
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11 Oct Ratner teams up with Brooklyn artists at AY construction site, The Real Deal
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...
09 Oct Artbridge Taps 20 Brooklyn Artist For Murals on Atlantic Yards Fencing, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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...
29 Dec New Sights On Site, Eoculus
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...
29 Nov Fe in a Crowd, Laurence Groux’s contribution to the ArtBridge Installation, The New York Times
The management at London Terrace Gardens proved receptive to the idea, and Mr. Durso persuaded Spring Scaffolding to let him use their scaffolding. Mr. Durso found contributors by placing an application on Web sites like that of the New York Foundation for the Arts. The...
29 Jul NY Designers icing, Icing stalled Sites, The Architects Newspaper Blog
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04 Jun ArtBridge is Calling All Street Artists, Papermag
Calling all artists! ArtBridge, a non-profit organization founded by artist/designer Rodney Dursoin 2008, transforms construction scaffolding and sidewalk sheds into temporary art exhibitions. ArtBridge is now accepting applications for their next street art show. Applicants have until July 1st at 11:59pm to submit work in...