Scooter LaForge's Love Power on the Bowery

East Village-based artist Scooter LaForge, working with Hitomi Nakamura and James Rubio, created this Love Power mural on the Bowery between Great Jones and Fourth Street earlier this week.

This was part of a larger effort organized by Bowery artist Sono Kuwayama. (Read about it here.) She received permission from store owners to paint on the plywood of the boarded-up businesses along this stretch of the Bowery. She then reached out to some local artists to have them create murals ...







And what will happen to the plywood when the businesses reopen?

Per Reuters: "When the boards eventually come down, Kuwayama’s plan is to store the art in a gallery, and later sell it, donating the proceeds to local homeless shelters."

As a P.S.

While we're on the Bowery and Fourth Street... Phebe's reopened yesterday for to-go food... they are open from 4-9 p.m. during the week and 2-9 p.m. today...

Making their mark on St. Mark's Place

A look at the new murals that went up Thursday on the north side of St. Mark's Place between Avenue A and First Avenue...


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Out in the Streets

In case you haven't seen this mural outside the Second Avenue F stop. For Pride Month, the wall features the work of Brooklyn-based photographer-documentarian the Dusty Rebel... who incorporated his photos here "to celebrate the queer community and our long history of using the street for performance and protest."

As he wrote on Instagram:

As went through my archive, I got excited to create something that celebrates historic moments I felt honored to capture: The Drag March, kiss-ins, Gays Against Guns, Queer Liberation March, The Dyke March. As I pasted these photos of queer icons, mentors, activists, and friends, I felt you all with me out in the streets.

Wednesday's parting shot

New wheatpaste art of James Baldwin on Lafayette and Great Jones... "the Best Baldwin Brotha" ...



Art by @erinkostudios ...

As seen on 2nd Avenue: 'Publicly shame racists'

New work from @captain_eyeliner ... as seen on Second Avenue between First Street and Second Street...

Coronavirus code

Outside the Second Avenue F stop. A few people have thought this reads COVID-14 while others believe it's simply a stylized 9.

Art is by @Leaf_8K

A Cool collab

This arrived on Sunday evening... a collaboration between Cool and Stargirl in the long empty lot along First Avenue between Fifth Street and Sixth Street...

Cuomo on the Bowery

Finally had a chance to see the Gov. Cuomo/Superman wheatpaste on the Bowery at Houston... a collaboration between SacSix and Mr. Poop...



Still haven't taken a look at the Dr. Fauci/Dr. Spock wheatpaste...

Stumped

Several readers have shared the new-look stump on First Avenue between St. Mark's Place and Ninth Street... not sure at the moment who added the color to tree stump street artist Ian Dave Knife's work here...

Previously

Thanks to everyone who sent in photos... Steven was the first to spot it earlier in the week.

Wednesday's parting shot

A moment on Second Street via Jose Garcia...

March 2020 street art

Spotted on 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...



Artist unknown (at the moment) ...



Photos by Vinny & O

Queens of the Street group art show opens tonight on 11th Street

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Starting tonight, Come Back Daily, the CBD shop on 11th Street, is playing host to Queens of the Street, an all-female group street-art show curated by Iheartgraffiti.

Per the invite: "From local muralists and wheatpaste artists to typographic and mixed media designers, Queens of the Street will bring together 12 women to showcase their groundbreaking work."

The roster of artists (with links to their work):
• My Life in Yellow
• Stephibones
• Hissxx
• Keli Lucas
• Marzipan Physics
• Stephanie Grajales
• WORM
• Chi Chi Paintz
• Glxy Gal
• Sara Lynne Leo
• Soulthundre

The show kicks off with an opening reception from 6-8 tonight ... followed by a panel discussion with the artists this coming Wednesday from 6:30-8 p.m.

You can see the work on view through March 20. The hours are noon to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; until 6 p.m. on Sundays.

Come Back Daily is at 516 E. 11th St. between Avenue A and Avenue B.

Stargirl 2020

You've likely seen these flexing, amorphous figures around on various buildings, construction sites, sidewalk cellar doors and at least two USPS trucks in recent weeks.

Here's just a sampling from the past week-plus...





People recall first seeing these in early to mid January...









The figures are growing in popularity, at least among a few Instagram users who have referred to the character as Super Girl (or Supergirl) and Power Puff Girl. We don't know who the identity of the artist, but the person calls these figures Stargirl.



The spray-painted drawings are pretty consistent — a smile, flexing arms and a star on the belly. Sometimes she is alone. Other times in packs. She has been spotted on the Lower East Side. We've had a sighting via a reader on 14th Street and Sixth Avenue. We haven't spotted many, if any, east of Avenue B...



Once she did the splits...



Several times the name Gwen appeared nearby...



























The photos of these on Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place are from late January. They've been painted over.





But there will be many more, no doubt.