PingMag goes to New York! I just came back from four days of rushing around the big apple, trying to look at as many things as I could. Here are a few rough, unusual highlights:
The Statue of Liberty was the first thing I saw in the morning - on the garbage! Speaking of which, they had beautiful garbage cans all over the place. That is something Tokyo definitely lacks!
I actually found many similarities to Tokyo, but on the whole New York felt much more rough, cool and very un-cute in whatever they did: handwritten signs, real models in shop-windows who were posing and performing, real plants as design-elements, graffiti…..
My favorite street art piece was a big wall sprayed silver, with skulls of different shapes and expressions painted onto it. Each skull had a red banner with supposedly the person’s name (such as Nina Simone, Freddy Mercury, Allen Ginsburg, Warhol, …) as some kind of honorable hall of fame for the dead . It was a very recent work by Tabboo, who is part of the Brooklyn graffiti crew DYM.
Unfortunately, I missed the P.S.1 summer-splash by one week, where they open the museum also in the evenings combining art with music, DJs, pools and lots of fun to create a relaxing summer atmosphere. The P.S.1 (no, not Playstation!) is the contemporary art extension of the MoMA, and I kind of regret that I did not go there instead of MoMA…
When I went to sneak a peak at the Guggenheim Museum, they were just setting up for a big exhibition about Russian art. There seems to be some kind of Eastern European hype in New York at the moment, with lots of Russian food, Russian galleries, Bulgarian parties … maybe I should fly off to the East next.
Written by Uleshka
New York from above
Statue of Liberty on the garbage
beautiful garbage cans
funny handwritten sign pointing at some Asian restaurant
kind of jungle-bondage-model posing for a slick boutique
urban green as part of the architecture
a real, big flower bed in front of a shopping window
hand-drawings pasted all over the walls of the 2nd street cafe in Brooklyn
2nd street cafe outside
a girl who had 2 guns tattooed on her legs. brave!
hall of fame for the dead
.....by Tabboo
I love stencil art! here a devil in disguise!
P.S.1 poster for their current exhibition
Russia set up inside the Guggenheim Museum
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Posted by: lou on October 12th, 2006 at 6:17 am
cool! Taboo is great… the DYM web site is
http://www.BrooklynGods.com
Posted by: evy on November 23rd, 2006 at 3:05 am
DYM crews website is: http://www.brooklyngods.com
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