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ICYMI: Someone turned the fixed bollards on Houston at Orchard into Hershey Kisses for Valentine's Day...





I recall this happening here in previous years as well...

Watch Baby Yoda come to life outside the 2nd Avenue F stop

[Photo Sunday by Steven]

As noted back on Monday (well, and Sunday), artist Will Power created this Baby Yoda mural outside the Second Avenue F stop.

And here's a time-lapse video of its creation...

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Graff... This is the way! Great times painting this passed weekend thanks again to @amartstop and @b3rky 🙏🏽💯 While @b3rky is working on the major media production for this project. I get to play with my GoPro. Sorry I geeked out a little bit on the audio! Baby Yoda gets the best of me! Lol it was an absolute pleasure to create this piece. I hope everyone enjoyed it. Much respect 🙏🏽 #starwars #graffiti #streetart #fineart #artcollector #newyork #newyorkcity #les #eastvillage #soho #theartofwillpower #hiphopismyreligion #upscaleurbanart #retrorenaissanceart #starwarsmandalorian #mandalorian #grittycitystyles #exvandals

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The piece will be up here on Second Avenue at East Houston until Feb. 1.

Baby Yoda arrives at the 2nd Avenue F stop

Artist Will Power finished his Baby Yoda mural yesterday at the Second Avenue F stop... Steven took these photos yesterday of the real star of the Disney+ series "The Mandalorian"...



This is the second Baby Yoda sighting in the East Village, joining the one put up for the Star Wars holiday windows at Two Boots on Avenue A.

Stump town: More on the tree art of Ian Dave Knife

[Photo by Steven]

In recent weeks we've posted about local artist Ian Dave Knife making art from dead tree stumps around the neighborhood (here and here).


[Photo by Steven]

He is featured today in the Post in an piece titled "East Village man Ian Dave Knife turns NYC eyesores into street art."

An excerpt:

Knife’s mission is to brighten every locale where a once-magnificent tree has been reduced to a lonely stump due to fungus or decay.

“There’s a void when the tree is missing. You see the gap,” the Zimbabwe-born activist artist told The Post. “It’s human nature that we want to grieve or sympathize with the tree. You feel the loss. I want to replace that gap.”

His latest is work in progress in on Avenue A at Sixth Street...



Read more about his work and influences here.

Updated 12/23

EVG reader Kerri Savage shared this photo... as he continues work on Avenue A and Sixth Street...



...and the final product, via Kerri...

Wednesday's parting shots

EVG contributor Steven spotted local artist Ian Dave Knife giving an old tree stump new life on St. Mark's Place near First Avenue...





This past weekend, Knife, who lives on St. Mark's Place, similarly transformed a tree stump on 11th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue. Expect to see more of his handiwork on other dead tree stumps in the neighborhood.

Read more about his work and influences here.

The Anti-Monkey Christ

Christopher J. Ryan shared these photos from yesterday... showing local artist Ian Dave Knife transforming a tree stump into "a beautiful work of street art" here on 11th Street just east of First Avenue.

The stump is titled "The Anti-Monkey Christ" ...

Tuesday's parting shots

New "Impeach!" art on the north-facing wall here on Avenue B between 13th Street and 14th Street...



Photos today by Steven...

On National Dog Day, here's a new City Kitty mural

Here's a look at the just-completed mural outside Avalon Chemists and the Second Avenue F stop by City Kitty... featuring the 99-cent pizza slice...

Noted

Send your Thoughts and Prayers to the GOP on Third Street at Avenue A... payphone art via Winston Tseng, whose MAGA-related satire has been spotted around here in the past.

About the new mural outside Key Food

If you've been by (or to!) Key Food on Avenue A in the past month then you've likely seen the mural on the Fourth Street wall...



Artolution — "a community-based public art organization that seeks to ignite positive social change through collaborative art making" — is behind this project.

A group of young artists from Central America created the various characters seen on the mural.



The mural was officially unveiled on July 20... and here's what's next for the work...

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A sneak peek of today’s big reveal. Each of the individual characters were created by youth who escaped ongoing violence in Central American countries to find refuge in the United States. Their characters and the movements they developed with @kj3t will come to life later in August through Augmented Reality technology. Today the youth will present their mural and performances to the community! The youth are excited, the artists are excited - Let’s get this party started New York City! Join us at Avenue A & 4th Street at 5 PM. With @joelartista @theremustbemorelight @weareroyale @supportkind @styledwithsubstance @rhythmloverevolution #asylumseekers #immigrantart #communityart #youthempowerment #eastvillage #les #joelartista #mascaras #artolution #muralunveiling #performance #youthart #centroamerica

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Been waiting to get a photo of the completed work ... though there were always delivery trucks or cars parked on Fourth Street outside the grocery... finally got a shot...

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The 10 NYC Commandments, as written on a discarded mattress on Second Street between Avenue A and First Avenue...

1. There is only 1 God (Money)
2. Honor thy lease
3. Don't covet thy neighbor
4. Don't worship false presidents
5. Do not lie (except on dates)
6. Do not steal (except from work)
7. I am a fucking jealous God
8. Do not forsake NY
9. Sunday is a day of brunch
10. Do not kill your dream


Courtesy of Adrian Wilson ...

Young artists from Central America are creating this mural outside Key Food

Here's an in-progress look at the mural underway outside Key Food on Avenue A and Fourth Street.

Artolution — "a community-based public art organization that seeks to ignite positive social change through collaborative art making" — is behind this project.

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Here we go! After days of planning and developing their own characters, our young artists are diving in to the mural experience here in the East Village! Hailing from Central America, many have faced great struggles in their young lives, but their resilience is evident as they create an artistic monument for the whole city to experience. @artolution @kj3t @joelartista @theremustbemorelight @weareroyale @supportkind @styledwithsubstance #asylumseekers #immigrantart #muralart #communityart #youthempowerment #eastvillage #les #joelartista #youthpower #artolution #centroamerica

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This mural on Avenue A is a passage from 'Call Me By Your Name' — in Braille

Here's a look at the mural that Jaye Moon, a Brooklyn-based Lego artist, created outside 50 Avenue A (the former Citi branch!) between Third Street and Fourth Street.

Per the sign, the piece, made partly with Legos, is an excerpt of the script — in Braille — from "Call Me By Your Name," the Oscar-Nominated film from 2017 ...







This piece is part of the WorldPride Mural Project initiative, a collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project. Per Instagram: "Both local and international artists, 50 in total, were selected to create murals within the five boroughs of New York that reflect and honor the beauty, struggle, and strides of the LGBTQIA+ community."

The work, mounted in plywood, is temporarily covering the cowboy art here.

Time passages

[Photo from Friday]

This weekend, Al Diaz and Curt Hoppe collaborated on a mural outside The Quality Mending Co. on the corner of Prince and Elizabeth.







The final product include's Diaz's text- and message-oriented work with Hoppe's portrait photography...

"Time pulls us along as present becomes past. People, pets, places and possessions all turn into memories..."

"This piece is not for selfies ... just stop, read and think," Hoppe told me.

Previously on EV Grieve:
The EVG podcast: Al Diaz on BOMB1, SAMO© and Basquiat

Curt Hoppe's 'Downtown Portraits'

Thursday's parting shot

Adrian Wilson created this work today outside the New York Sports Club on Avenue A between Second Street and Third Street... part of a commemoration marking the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising...

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Incredibly flattered to be asked to do a piece of (not sponsored) street art in NYC to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall by @thelisaprojectnyc for @worldpride2019 #worldpride

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Supper's 1970s-style subway-car look on 2nd Street

A legendary NYC graffiti artist has created murals for the awnings at Supper on Second Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.



East Village restaurateur Frank Prisinzano (Frank, Lil' Frankie's) commissioned GHOST, described as "one of the last kings of the New York City train writing era," to do the work on the restaurant as well as the building next door, home to Flux Studios.

GHOST and GIZ completed the 1970s-style work last week.

"Back in the 70s and 80s graffiti was what made me feel at home in NYC," Prisinzano told me via email. "It gave off a constant urban pulse that I think was very calming for everyone. The idea that street art can’t be suppressed and that it’s really the neighborhood bulletin board is what I want you to feel when you look at the work we just did at Supper."

Here's a better look via this photo by EVG regular Salim...


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Going 'Ape' over this gate at the East Village Vintage Collective

We have two reader-submitted photos from the weekend... showing the new Frank Ape mural on the gate at East Village Vintage Collective on 12th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...



The new mural went up back on Friday as part of the 100 Gates Project, which provides site-specific artistic collaborations with East Village merchants.

The mural project started on various EV storefronts in late April.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Planet of the Frank Ape: Q-and-A with artist Brandon Sines

About the 'Pay It No Mind' mural honoring LGBTQ+ advocate Marsha P. Johnson outside the F train stop on 2nd Avenue

This new mural titled "Pay It No Mind" arrived this past weekend outside the F stop on Second Avenue at East Houston...



The work is a collaboration between Suriani, a visual artist based in Montréal, and Homo Riot.

It's part of an in-progress Queer Street Art documentary by photographer and filmmaker Daniel Albanese aka @dustyrebel for Pride Month. This piece honors LGBTQ advocate Marsha P. Johnson, a leader in the Stonewall uprising.

(Suriani’s imagine of Marsha P. Johnson is based on Richard Shupper’s studio portrait of Johnson from 1991, the year before her death.)



Albanese talked more about the mural in an interview published yesterday at Brooklyn Street Art:

This wall is actually the kick off to a series of Queer Street Art that will be coming to NYC for Pride Month. I have partnered with Art In Ad Places, Keep Fighting NYC, and other community based projects to create a queer alternative to the overwhelming flood of corporate pride events.

While not part of Reclaim Pride Coalition’s inaugural Queer Liberation March on June 30, I was inspired by the activists who have organized to bring the “Spirit of Stonewall” directly to the street, and who are keeping the focus on the continuing needs of the LGBTQ+ community.

The mural was also defaced short after its arrival on Second Avenue:

I know street art is ephemeral, and I also know that work that is unapologetically queer is especially targeted. So I knew it was coming, I just didn’t expect something that big and that fast in less than 30 hours. We made this piece as a community, for our community. We really wanted to start conversation about the issues that LGBTQ+ people face, and to honor the memory of Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Riot. To have that important conversation cut short felt like a punch in the gut.

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In less than 30 hours from completion, New York’s only non-corporate sponsored, fully and unapologetically queer pride mural was destroyed. . But like Marsha, we PAY IT NO MIND . And rise again . . @homoriot @surianiart #homoriot #surianiart #marshapjohnson #payitnomind #suriani #queerliberation #stonewallwasariot #PassThatBrick #dustyrebelproduction #worldpride #queerstreetart #gaystreetart #nycstreetart #instagay #lgbtq #queerart #gayart

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Late last month, the de Blasio administration announced that it will create a permanent Greenwich Village monument to honor Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, founders of the Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries.

A 30th anniversary tribute to the Tiananmen Square protests on the LES

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.

On this occasion, artist-photographer Adrian Wilson created a tribute on the marquee at the Cheese Grille on Allen Street between Stanton and East Houston...

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Just finished this tribute to those who were massacred in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago today. I remember seeing the guy stood in front of the tank and it perfectly symbolized the resolve of the ordinary citizen against his mighty oppressor. This spot is where tourist buses stop and near Chinatown and already so many Chinese have thanked me. The text says "Remember". #tiananmensquare #tianananmen

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When appliances imitate art

Vinny & O spotted this discarded Frigidaire room air-conditioner thing this morning on Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... adorned with the stick figure that's similar to what's on the side of Doc Holliday's on Ninth Street at Avenue A...



That mural, by UK street artist STIK and titled "Liberty," went up in September 2013. Stik is known to leave androgynous "stik people" behind wherever he visits.