BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Stumbling and slipping and dancing through January here in New York requires dexterity and a tolerance for dry skin and flattened hat-hair and the occasional sore throat. Thankfully there are great indoor activities sometimes like the huge trippy balloon installations by suave art dynamo Jihan Zencirli at her opening exhibition inside the NYC Ballet atrium Friday night. Hundreds of thousands of balloons, free bourbon, and a DJ after a surprisingly post-post-modern program of envelope pushing dancing on the mainstage by amazing pros! Gurl, that ballet is ballin’.
Elsewhere in art news the Guggenheim’s Nancy Specter offered a gold-plated toilet to the White House after turning down their request to borrow a VanGogh, people lined up to see “One Basquiat” at the Brooklyn Museum this week while they streamed by many Basquiats on New York Streets without looking in the 80s, and New York magazine announced a “public art” campaign with 50 artists (Yoko Ono, Barbara Krueger, Marilyn Minter) this year that sounds a lot like it is borrowing heavily from Street Art techniques “throughout the five boroughs and in a variety of formats, such as on street lamps or “wild postings” on walls around the city.” Wild postings?
One more indoor exhibit totally worth your time is Ann Lewis’s installations at a no-name popup in Manhattatan. The conceptual Street/gallery activist artist continues to push her own boundaries, and many of ours, with her work addressing difficult social and political issues like police brutality, institutional bias against women, racism, the Resistance. At a time when we need women’s voices to rise, she collaborates with StudioSpaceNYC at a pop-up at 149 West 14th Street (shots from the installation below).
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Ann Lewis, Atomik, Jihan Zencirli, Obey, Pet-de-None, Shepard Fairey, Studio Space NYC and Tona.
Top Image: TONA in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OBEY in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ann Lewis and Studio Space NYC exhibition/collaboration “Unspoken”. Stay tuned for more on this exhibition. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ann Lewis and Studio Space NYC exhibition/collaboration “Unspoken”. Stay tuned for more on this exhibition. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pet-de-None in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cinza in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Atomik in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hasta la vista B2B in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DON’T EAT ME in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
We couldn’t read this tag…help anyone? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jihan Zencirli AKA Geronimo at the NYC Ballet installation. Detail. More to come shortly… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jihan Zencirli AKA Geronimo at the NYC Ballet installation. Detail. More to come shortly… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist in Lisbon. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan and the East River from the Williamsburg Bridge. January 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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