Monday night (Oct. 11th) saw the closing of the Re:Form school event in Soho, NYC.
The event gathered a lot of great artists to raise awareness of the failing public education system;
read more about it here.
Curtis Kulig
Judith Supine
Specter
Faile
Elbowtoe
WK Interact
It was a rainy night in NYC, but a great event. Check out
more details here.
There seems to have been a lot of debate over the legality of street art in the past few
months years, but mostly the debate comes down to a struggle to reconcile the historic objection to artists appropriating public space with an ever-increasing public enthusiasm for artists appropriating public space. It's funny to think that while some artists are being
jailed for their art, some cities are actively competing for street art festivals & exhibits.
Antony Gormley's Event Horizon is a great example of an enlightened approach; public & private organizations worked together to make it happen (the official guide even includes an introduction from Mayor Bloomberg), and it's hard to argue that it can have done anything other than benefit local culture & business.
The sculptures themselves are casts of Gormley's body; there are 31 of them on buildings around Madison Square Park. It's fun and surprising as you start to spot them, and then they're strangely enigmatic - sometimes they feel quite ominous, sometimes quite friendly.
"The ambition is to make people visually aware of their own surroundings and the skyline above their heads."
The exhibit runs until August 15;
details here.
artist: Antony Gormley
location: Madison Square Park,
NYC
If you're in London,
go to The Thousands. It's only open for the next 4 days, and it will be great.
Keep an eye on
Vandalog for more information.
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This great collaboration is not that new, but it's quite hidden in Venice, so it's new to me.
artists: Sever +
Insa (if you haven't already, check out Insa's
recent street/ video work for Nike)
location: Main St., between Venice & Grand; Venice
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