Art Around the Park, in progress

Via EV Grieve reader John...

A few early favorites...

Via @handelsaurus

Via ‏@hellosamo

We'll have more later...

Countdown to Howl!

Gets under way at 4:30 today.... Here's the schedule.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Missing art from Art Around the Park

This painting, by Simon Scott, is missing. He believes it was stolen yesterday during the removal of all the paintings from Art Around the Park during the Howl! Festival in Tompkins Square Park. We're told the removal of all the paintings yesterday was chaotic and wet... Friends are helping Simon locate it... any leads?

Tearing down the Howl! stage

Just after 8 tonight, crews had finally finished tearing down the Howl! stage in Tompkins Square Park... So much work setting it up for two days and tearing it down.... Wouldn't a permanent bandshell make sense here again?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Tompkins Square Park is way past due for a new bandshell

Sunday at Howl!

Before the drizzle today... EV Grieve correspondent Blue Glass was in Tompkins Square Park....










Plenty more going on with Howl! this month... Visit the Howl! site... and the East Villager Howler for a list of everything...

Meanwhile, there are plenty of other Howl! photos... Check out Melanie... Slum Goddess.... Bob Arihood....

Girlzilla!

You may have seen this towering robot yesterday in Tompkins Square Park during the Howl! Festival... It's Girlzilla, created this summer by the Lower East Side Girls Club. The Times has the story on how she came to be. Very cool story.

By now, you may be getting the idea that EV Grieve likes Art Around the Park

Photos from this morning....











Meanwhile, I'll just be sitting here...

Also...

I always like the 3D art....





Which reminds me:

Via Eater:

The Special: DBGB just launched a large format pig meal. It's $450 for up to eight guests and includes all you can drink craft ales, a whole Pennsylvania Green Village Farms applewood smoked and roasted pig stuffed with sausage and served family style with swiss chard, Gruyere, corn on the cob, potato gratin, and red and white sauerkraut. Baked Alaska for dessert.
When: They just need 72 hours notice; 212-933-5300.

And later...

About those wrapped packages in Tompkins Square Park

In case you are wondering what those carefully arranged wrapped packages (not the people) are in the middle of Tompkins Square Park...



GammaBlog has more about Ujin Lee's performance art piece here... Plus, this was an excuse for me to take a photo of people sunbathing...

Art Around the Park in progress...

In the beginning...

Art Around the Park getting set up... perhaps we'll check back later for a progress report....




Meanwhile, you can check this post for last year's highlights...

Get your Howl! program

East Village Howler has the complete Howl! 2009 program.

And they're available at the following locations:

The Bowery Poetry Club,
45 Bleecker Street Theater, St. Mark's Church
in-the-Bowery, Millennium Film Workshop,
St. Mark's Books,Nuyorican Poets Cafe,
Think Coffee, Sunshine Theater,
Bluestockings, Pianos, Living Room, Cake Shop,
Trash and Vaudeville (upstairs),Mission Cafe,
Anthology Film Archives, Sidewalk Cafe,
Lakeside Lounge, Life Cafe and more...