[Last Monday morning via Derek Berg]
Last Monday morning, workers temporarily removed the Citi Bike docking station on East Fourth Street just west of Second Avenue ... to make way for a street mural courtesy of DOT Art and the Fourth Arts Block (FAB).
The docking station returned this morning...
[Photo by Derek Berg]
And here is the final product with the bikes back in place...
[Photo of FAB's programs coordinator, Tyler S. Bugg, via FAB's Facebook page]
The mural, titled "From a Different Perspective," was created by Herb Smith and curated by FAB's Public Art Director, Keith Schweitzer.
11 comments:
Oh that's so much better! Whew! I hate them much less now that a community group has painted art around the blue demons.
Can I get that hole in the head I ordered? I need it about as much as I or the city needs this crap!
I'm all about art but I think I can say this is something we can do without.
Wasn't the citibike program BROKE? Who paid for this? The people of the city of NY?
Painting the street where the docking stations are is a good idea. It's a useful way to employ artists, too.
Who pays artists?
I like the mural, but I really dislike the idea of anyone in the community partnering with these ghouls, particularly artists. These banks are the same institutions that keep rents high and people broke. They're consuming the city as indicated by the bank branches on every other corner. I'd never let my artwork be exploited and my brushes don't sell for cheap.
This is completely hideous! Of all the fabulous ways the street under the Citibike station there could have been incorporated into the citiscape with asphalt mural painting, this particular take on it is surely the worst. What is it referencing, some 1990's take on southwest Santa Fe pueblo art? I don't get it.
The obvious choice to paint this space, in front of La Mama, would be Christopher Tanner...covered in glitter and paying tribute to Ellen Stuart. Who on earth makes these decisions? BTW, I have not spoken to Tanner in years, and I am not his underhanded advocate. All I am saying is that anyone who bothers to look into it,will surely agree that he would be better than this, for many, many, obvious reasons.
I get all my free brochures from Pueblo, Colorado!
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears: It's OVER.
The good news for the artist is that his work should be visible (or invisible) most of the day due to the total collapse of the CitiBike rebalancing program.
Today at 10:30 AM the system hit a new record high of 66 completely empty stations. Combined with the 22 stations that were completely full, that means 27 percent of CitiBikes system was out of commission.
The number of available bikes hit a new low for the year. What happened to the rebalancing plan that was supposed to kick in once the snow was gone?
It won't be long now before we get the first CitiBike riot...
http://bikesharenyc.blogspot.com/
the city has a million conflicting programs to paint things ranging from construction sites in Tribeca to Street Repair Barricades -you can as the commenter noted -often not get paid (just notoriety) .These guys take money from NY (lots) to rip off artists and decorate the city: http://www.nyc.gov/html/urbancanvas/html/home/home.shtml
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