Today in Shepard Fairey disses

Here on Houston and the Bowery...





Oh, and this was added sometime this weekend...



Previously on EV Grieve:
Keith Haring reappears on Houston and the Bowery

Week in Grieview

Posts from this past week included... (and top photo is of Tompkins Square Park the other morning)... 

• The East Village Community Fridge can use some fresh-food donations (Friday)

• A Taste of the Tropics on Avenue C (Monday) 

• RIP Pastor Diane (Friday) 

• Organizing the Avenue B Flea (Thursday) 

• A very East Village Halloween (Sunday) 

• Halloween night with Moral Panic (Sunday)

• Report of a death outside the Orpheum Theatre (Tuesday) 

• Caracas Arepa Bar is closing its East Village outpost after 17 years (Thursday) 

• Ducks Eatery will close after 8-plus years on 12th Street (Monday) 

• Businesses along Broadway and the Bowery board up their windows ahead of Election Day (Tuesday) 

• Gallery watch: Crichoues Indignation at the Hole NYC; Vantage Points at GRIMM Gallery (Wednesday) 

• The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black in Tompkins Square Park (Monday) 

• The giveaway continues on 9th Street (Friday) 

• 4 years on, the Shepard Fairey mural is being chipped away on 1st Avenue and 11th Street (Tuesday) 

• This week's NY See (Thursday) 

• After Con Ed work, Cafe Himalaya and Prim Thai are reopening (Tuesday) 

• Incoming office building makes first appearance above the plywood at 141 E. Houston (Monday) 

• Veniero's has a temporary new space on 11th Street (Thursday)

• The vacant corners on the west side of 3rd Avenue and 13th Street (Monday)

• Opening and/or coming soon: The Dolar Shop, Kyuramen (Monday) 

... and a moment from yesterday with Amelia and Christo on 10th and A... photos by Steven...

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Death becomes him

Hey now. Just catching up with the Times of New York from the other day... The newspaper reviews Shepard Fairey's Deitch Projects show. And what does the reviewer think?

"On the walls of an art gallery, his efforts look like death warmed over."

Week in Grieview

[Key Food still life on Avenue A]

RIP Lucien Bahaj (Monday) RIP Unkle Waltie (Tuesday)

Time capsules: The Gap of St. Mark's Place (Thursday)

An annual reunion in East River Park (Sunday)

Report: New owner of the Boys' Club building on 10th Street and Avenue A — revealed! (Wednesday)

Gov. Cuomo condemns suspect who left anti-gay graffiti on Avenue A; another message found on Norfolk Street (Saturday)

The tree nest in El Jardín del Paraíso has been removed (Tuesday)

The Sunshine is gone, and an empty lot awaits a 9-story office building (Wednesday)

Tech hub officially breaks ground on 14th Street (Tuesday)

Niconeco Zakkaya, seller of Japanese stationery and gifts, opening a shop on 10th Street (Friday)

Café Social 68 debuts on A (Wednesday)

Dramatic storm shots (Thursday)

The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black in Tompkins Square Park (Monday)

Grant Shaffer's NY See (Thursday)

Maison Kayser closes Union Square location (Monday)

Another Flamingos Vintage Pound opens in the East Village, this one on 11th Street (Monday)

Former Nobletree Coffee space for rent (Wednesday)

Bowlmor Lanes-replacing condoplex cleared of construction equipment on University Place (Wednesday)

Something finally happening at the former Gotham Pizza (Wednesday)

Little Buddha pops up with vegan fare on 1st Street (Friday)

Medina's Turkish Kitchen debuts on 2nd Avenue (Monday)

Polytima Designs is closing on 9th Street (Friday)

The Boilery up next for 58 3rd Ave. (Thursday)

A new door for The Jones (Monday)

Thoughts on Ray's (the new bar on the LES) (Wednesday)

... and ICYMI...



Here’s a look at the city-sanctioned mural on the water tower atop 190 Bowery that Shepard Fairey created of actress Rosario Dawson titled "Power & Equality." The work is in part a celebration of the Lower Eastside Girls Club, where Dawson is a board member...



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Your Shepard Fairey/Cooper Square Hotel daily update!

Shepard Fairey back up at Houston and the Bowery (sort of)

An addition to the Deitch wall where Barry McGee (aka Twist) is now holding forth...

Is the Shepard Fairey mural snatching babies now?

Posse officially in Effect now with the Beastie Boys on 14th Street and Avenue A

Photos by Daniel Efram

Work is wrapping up at the new mural on 14th Street at Avenue A featuring the Beastie Boys (Posse in Effect).

As previously noted, Shepard Fairey (below), in collaboration with the Lisa Project NYC, created this stories-high work from a photo by East Village-based photographer Glen E. Friedman.

The mural is part of the ongoing celebration of 50 years of hip-hop.

This afternoon, there was a dedication ceremony featuring First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and local City Councilmember Keith Powers ... and Lisa Project co-founders Wayne Rada and Rey Rosa (you can watch the broadcast here) ...

Last month, the city officially co-named the corner of Ludlow and Rivington Beastie Boys Square on the Lower East Side.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[East Seventh Street. Photo by Bobby Williams]

If you happen to be in Echo Park: Dee Dee Ramone will have a posthumous gallery exhibit of his artwork via Shepard Fairey (The Los Angeles Times)

Long live El Faro (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

NYPD says suspect in fatal stabbing near Union Square left for Mexico (The New York Times)

Macaron Parlour opens tomorrow on St. Mark's Place (BoweryBoogie)

Brooklyn Flea's Smorgasburg popping up shop at the Whole Foods Bowery (Gothamist)

Cafe Katja reopens tonight on Orchard Street (The Lo-Down)

And at The Awl today, Choire Sicha weighs in on the new East Village/Lower East Side Historic District in a post titled "The Permanent East Village: A Fascist Swamp of Crappy Buildings Now Historic."

An excerpt!

The district stretches down Second Avenue, which is now referred to as "Little Dartmouth Gangsta's Paradise," due to the habits of the khaki-clad worthies who clog its congested sidewalks of an evening, alternately issuing mating shrieks and vomit.

Finally, please put your stickers somewhere else besides Joe Strummer's sunglasses...

[This morning]

Your Shepard Fairey/Cooper Square Hotel daily update!

The Joey Ramone street sign returns to Joey Ramone Place

[Photo from this morning]

After nearly a month-long absence, the city returned the Joey Ramone Place street sign yesterday afternoon (H/T Jessie Malin!) to the northeast corner of the Bowery and Second Street. (This block of Second Street is co-named for the frontman of the Ramones.)

It appeared that the light pole on this corner was under repairs. (Plus, the street sign looked as if it had been bashed a few times.)

The sign first went up in November 2003. The sign remains pretty high up there ...


[Photo from this morning]

This placement happened several years ago after the sign was previously stolen a half-dozen times. So workers raised the sign to 20 feet. Standard street signs are between 12 and 14 feet off the ground, per the Post.



Meanwhile, the two-year-old Joey Ramone-CBGB 40th anniversary mural a block away at Bleecker and the Bowery has been painted over in place of a Debbie Harry-Blondie mural by Shepard Fairey. Will post on that a little later.

Here's a look at the final RBG mural on 1st Avenue and 11th Street

After nearly two weeks of work, @ellestreetart has finished the RBG mural on the southwest corner of First Avenue and 11th Street (first reported here).

Vinny & O shared the top photo... and Elle posed for a few photos afterwards (thanks Lola Saénz for these photos) ... 

The artist wrote a statement on Instagram explaining all the elements of the mural of the late associate justice of the Supreme Court. 

Earlier this month, workers removed Shepard Fairey's "Rise Above" mural that had been on this space for the past four years.

Bedbug artist strikes again with a tribute to bedbug-riddled stores

A mysterious e-mail just arrived with another bedbugs creation by Samuel Mark... On St. Mark's Place near Second Avenue last evening... And the e-mailer confirmed his identity as the elusive street artist Samuel Mark, who previously left a bedbug-ridden couch for Shepard Fairey.

Now with some video...




Previously on EV Grieve:
Bedbugs inspire local artists

The former Schnitz space is for rent

Shepard Fairey is wrapping up work on his mural on East 11th Street at First Avenue... above the space that housed Schnitz.

Several people said that they weren't aware that the sandwich specialists had closed.

We noted on Sept. 2 that the quick-serve restaurant hadn't been open in several weeks ... and that the storefront was listed for rent online.

The retail space for lease sign has been up for maybe two weeks now. According to the listing (PDF) at RKF, the asking rent is roughly $9,100 a month.

No one from Schnitz has responded about the closure via social media yet.

Schnitz, which served old-fashioned schnitzel sandwiches with unconventional toppings, opened here in March 2014. This was the first permanent retail space for Schnitz after gaining a following at Smorgasburg in Williamsburg and Dumbo.

Shepard Fairey's mural tagged and cleaned and tagged again ... again

I can't even keep track of this anymore... the tags are cleaned off, only to return bigger and better...

Read the previous Shep coverage here.

Week in Grieview

Posts this past week included (with a reader-submitted photo from the Ninth Street Community Garden & Park) ...

• Here's the new, larger residential building planned for 280 E. Houston St. (Monday) 

• The 'Daze' of our lives: Adam Zhu's new photo book chronicles today's downtown youth culture (Wednesday) 

• Renovations underway at the former Whitehouse Hotel on the Bowery (Tuesday) 

• At the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree lighting (Monday) ... Seeing the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree in a whole new light (Saturday) 

• The Gallery Watch Q&A: Harvey L. Silver's 'Changin' Times' (Friday) 

• Bad Brains on the Bowery with Shepard Fairey and Glen E. Friedman (Thursday) 

• The New Museum is collecting coats for the Bowery Mission (Tuesday) 

• Cautionary tales: A song inspired by an East Village move (Friday) 

• On the CB3-SLA docket: The Commodore aims for Avenue C; an all-day Italian cafe for 12th Street (Monday) 

• The Zero Irving food hall is now OPEN (Thursday) 

• Memphis Seoul announces itself on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Before Dallas BBQ (Tuesday ... Wednesday ... Thursday) 

• Crab Du Jour sleeps with the fishes on 1st Avenue (Wednesday)

• Gen Korean BBQ House drops the plywood for a full reveal on 14th Street and 3rd Avenue (Thursday) 

• Pizza for the former Subway (sandwich shop) on Avenue B (Thursday)

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You may 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' tonight for free in Tompkins Square Park

The Films in Tompkins series continues tonight with "Exit Through the Gift Shop."

Per Wikipedia:

Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film is a film by graffiti artist Banksy that tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The film charts Guetta's constant documenting of his every waking moment on film, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a host of street artists with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta's eventual fame as a street artist himself.

Meant to see this film... never got around to it.

And as we'll cut-n-paste all summer long like the Beach Boys:

Free. Gates Open at 6 p.m. Music Starts ½ Hour before the Start of the Film (sundown)

July 5 — Exit Trough The Gift Shop, Music by Church of Betty

July 12 — Fantastic Mr. Fox, Music by Dandy Wellington And His Band

July 19 — Summer of Sam, Music by The Debonairs and Brendan O’Hara

July 26 — Goldfinger, Music by The Luddites

Aug. 2 — Donnie Darko, Music by The Rad Trads
A Two Boots 25th Anniversary Event with Free Pizza!

Aug. 9 — The Big Lebowski, Music by Main Squeeze Orchestra
A Two Boots 25th Anniversary Event with Free Pizza!

Aug. 16 — Poltergeist, Music by Timbila

Dates subject to Rain Delays.

Films In Tompkins is sponsored by Ella, The Blind Barber, Two Boots, Grolsch, GalleryBar, Tower Brokerage and NYC& Company.

NYPD raises Shepard Fairey threat level to 'high'

Heh. No! Just the NYPD protecting the Houston corridor for the Obama motorcade this evening...



Many thanks to EV Grieve reader Anna for the photos...

Thankfully the Penistrator didn't deface Shep's work for the President to see...

Behind the first book featuring the work of artist Steve Keene

Steve Keene, the prolific Greenpoint-based painter whose work on album covers for Pavement and the Silver Jews is likely well-known to indie-rock enthusiasts, is the subject of a new coffee-table book now in the Kickstarter phase.

East Village resident Daniel Efram,  a longtime Keene collaborator, is producing the art book.

"In my nearly three decades of working on various projects with Steve Keene, my home and many of my favorite SK moments came at 1990s indie rock shows at Brownies or the Lakeside Lounge in the East Village," Efram said in an email. 

Eric Ambel, the former owner of the Lakeside Lounge (RIP April 2012) on Avenue B, recalled how Keene helped give the bar-music venue its identity.

"I was in the process of opening ... with partner Jim Marshall (aka WFMU DJ The Hound). We had a name, the Lakeside Lounge, but we didn't have a concept for the decor," Ambel said. "I suggested we get Steve Keene to do a bunch of paintings for us that had a sort of 'lodge/lake vibe' to them. Steve was way into the idea, and after checking out the colors we had used in the bar, he created an amazing set of images for us. During our 16 years in business at the Lakeside, he would make three completely new sets of art for the bar."

According to Efram, "The Steve Keene Art Book: Live from Subliminal Projects LA, CA" is the first art book attempting to tell the story of Keene's career by showcasing the complete work from his 2016 show at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery. 

You can find more info on the Kickstarter page.

Photo by Daniel Efram

Parting shots for Shepard Fairey on the Deitch Wall

Last night, while Twist and crew were working on the new mural on Houston and the Bowery... several images appeared on the wall.... like the one above... Via the Flickr page of *niCOle* ... you'll find some other messages from last night there... (Thanks to EV Grieve reader T.E.V.B. for the link...)