Sunday's opening shots

Photos by Stacie Joy

In-progress shots of a new mural by Bianca Romero at the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union on Avenue B at Third Street ... it will be finished soon... 

Wednesday's parting shots

A new roller by MQ on the site of the former B Bar & Grill on the Bowery and Fourth Street...

If this stays up, then the art will eventually be entombed behind the 21-floor office building slated for this property...

Noted

An Oscar-night Will Smith wheatpaste... as seen in Freemans Alley at Rivington. 

Art by @zui_nyc. 

H/T @catscoffeecreativity

Wednesday's parting shot

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the linocut style of David Barthold ... a recent arrival on Houston and the Bowery... 

H/T @catscoffeecreativity

Saturday's opening shot

Danny Trejo-Bob Saget combo on the Bowery via SacSix...

Monday's parting shot

You may have seen these small paintings of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy around the neighborhood ... including part of his response to offers of an evacuation early on during the Russian invasion: "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." 

The art is by @EarlyRiser ... the photo from First Avenue and Ninth Street is by William Klayer.

A Lou Reed Christmas scene on St. Mark's Place

A holiday scene on St. Mark's Place... with Invader's Lou Reed mosaic still in place from late 2015 (and via the Lisa Project) ...

Dec. 25's opening shot

A recent arrival outside the Second Avenue F stop... a collaboration featuring @turtlecaps ... @chrisrwk ... @zeroproductivity ... @citykittystreet and @outersource ...

Noted

A dead rat sculpture on Avenue A near Ninth Street... artist unknown at the moment. 

Pic by Derek Berg.

Monday's parting shot

This holiday mural — an interpretation of Will Ferrell in "Elf" — went up over the weekend outside the Second Avenue F stop... work by @paolo_tolentino and @turtlecaps.

Flashback to last year's mural here.

Thanksgiving day's opening shot

EVG reader Andy took this photo last night on Essex and Delancey outside the former Roma Pizza ... a Thanksgiving-themed installation in the gutted carcass of an ATM ...

Saturday's opening shot

Seasonal photo op — aka interactive "Street Artmare" — on the Bowery at Stanton... Day of The Dead Artist piece at 246 Bowery arrived last week via @planndalism. Spot curated by @lisaprojectnyc ...

Thursday's parting shot(s)

In honor of Hitchcocktober (OK, this wheatpaste has been up here for several weeks!) ... Grace Kelly in a telephone box on First Street and Second Avenue...

Art by @citykittystreet with @d7606art

Check out these NYC taxi views from 1977-1987 along East Houston Street

In case you haven't been over on East Houston at Second Avenue in the past week ... there's a new exhibit up along First Street Green featuring the work of photographer Joseph Rodriguez.

He drove a cab in NYC from 1977 to 1985 ... and later published a book of his work: "Taxi: Journey Through my Windows 1977–1987." 

Some of those photos, including scenes from the East Village, are featured along this corridor ...

The work, part of the Photoville Festival, will be up here until Dec. 1.

City fences off Allen Street Bathhouse to prevent trans artist from painting on its walls

On Tuesday afternoon, city workers arrived to erect a fence around the long-vacant Allen Street Bathhouse here at Delancey...

This was the city's latest heavy-handed tactic in the summer-long battle against unhoused trans artist Nadja Rose, who had been creating murals on the vacant bathhouse's walls and surrounding sidewalk space in recent months.

None of this pleased city officials (led by the Parks Department), who would dispatch sanitation trucks and the 7th Precinct to discard her belongings and art supplies. She would always return. There were also social-media reports that the city had her locked up "in the psych ward" several times. 

Observers (optimistically) wondered why the city couldn't use this as an opportunity to create some type of artist-in-residence program at this neglected space that has long been a favorite spot for taggers.

Her work prompted admiration from passersby here on the Allen Street Mall, a passage with an out-of-business Subway sandwich shop on one corner and a Starbucks on the other. (As for the old bathhouse, plans for a cafe in the structure date to early 2016.) 

Writer Jeremiah Moss has documented Rose's work here on Instagram...

 

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There haven't been any sightings of the artist since the fence went up, we're told. But she did leave some parting messages...

A Chuck Close tribute on Bond Street

Chuck Close died last month at age 81. 

And recently, the artist Scott VanderVoort paid tribute to the photorealist outside 42 Bond St. between the Bowery and Lafayette. (Close had a studio and residence nearby.)

EVG reader Garth shared these photos ... you get the 1967-68 Big Self-Portrait of Close while walking to the east...

... and a 2005 version of Close while heading west...

Here's a little clip to give you a better idea of the work...

 

VanderVoort previously created tributes here for President Obama after his eight years in the White House ... and after the deaths of Steve Jobs ... and David Bowie. 

This video explains more about how VanderVoort creates the art...

 

Seinfeld's terrifying new look on 2nd Street

The Seinfeld wheatpaste — created by @Sacsix — has been on the wall here on Second Street at First Avenue for five-plus years (outside Spiegel, the cafe which is reopening one of these days).

So you might expect some wear and tear... but the resulting eye lift is giving off (friendlier) Michael Myers vibes...

... though it is getting close(r) to Halloween.

Midday pizza break

Andy Warhol and Keith Haring reimagined as Ninja Turtles. 

Art on First Avenue at Third Street by DeGrupo. 

Speaking of Keith Haring, his sculpture outside 51 Astor Place has been MIA now for a little more than a year. It was to undergo "minor conservation work."

9/11 and beyond on the Bowery

Adrian Wilson (@planndalism) created this mural earlier in the week on the gate at 262 Bowery near Stanton Street. 

He invited members of FDNY Ladder 20/Division 1 on Lafayette Street to add finishing touches to the mural. This Instagram post has more background. 

Mural space curated by the East Village-based Lisa Project.

Sunday's opening shot

Giving it the ol' collage try... a John Belushi-"Animal House" wheatpaste that recently arrived on First Street at Second Avenue... work by @sacsix...