Friday, November 9, 2012

EV Grieve Etc.: Introducing Metropolitan City Market; new Houston-Bowery mural

Catching up on a few items from the last week or two...

One. The wind from Hurricane Sandy ripped off the cover to the new Met Foods sign on Second Avenue... the store had been renovated in anticipation of this new branding of sorts... it's now Metropolitan City Market...


Two. And over at the Houston/Bowery Mural Wall last week, twin brothers HOW and NOSM began creating a storm-themed mural for the corner ...



The mural is dedicated to Tony Goldman, the curator of the wall, who died in September at age 68.


Find more on the mural at BoweryBoogie and Animal NY.

Per Marina Galperina:

See what you want in the bloody mouths of toothy fish, in the stacks of slaughtered tree trunks or in the factory-like humanoid forms spilling diamonds and money from their orifices. The center design is clear — a triangle if black sky around a dead grey street light above a triangle of water with floating debris.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 9, 2012 at 10:08 AM

    Hehe, just yesterday I passed by this new "Metro City Market" trying to look all snazzy and whatnot. Come on now, Met Food you are not fooling this guy, I know all about your skanky past.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM

    I don't know... For some reason, stylistically, that mural hurts my eyes. ...Weird.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 11:49 AM

    This was a great post.

    http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2010/04/houston-wall.html

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