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Spotted on 11th Street near Avenue C this morning.

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Second Street at Avenue A. And good morning.

Saturday's parting shot

Marking the 106th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire today... Photo on Sixth Street by Derek Berg...

Previously

Today in photos of squirrels carb loading in Tompkins Square Park

Photo by Bobby Williams...

The squirrel collection grows

Aureus Contemporary hosting a temporary exhibit on 7th Street

Aureus Contemporary is hosting a group show on weekends through April at 116 E. Seventh St. between Avenue A and First Avenue...



The show is titled Bish Bash Bosh.

Test Driving particles this morning... studio visits = mindset. AUREUS continues this weekend in NYC with our special temporary exhibition featuring some of your fave gallery artists including @claireshegog @robertpokorny @elisewehle @1kedals1 @monikahardyart @siphomabona @karimbhamid @williampimmer - Saturday 12-8pm / Sunday 12-6pm - 116 E 7th Street, NYC

A post shared by AUREUS Contemporary (@aureus_art) on Mar 25, 2017 at 6:32am PDT

Thanks to Drew Bushong for the photos earlier this week!

Tableside Italian Cook Shoppe now open on 6th Street

The Italian restaurant had its grand opening last evening at 345 E. Sixth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue...



Until earlier this month, the space was Edward and Neal's Fish Bar. Owner Shane Cover, who runs Upstate around the corner on First Avenue, told us:

"I needed to switch it up. I was never able to be there as much as I should. Running fresh fish places took all of my time. Also I thought the prices were too high. I have not raised Upstate's prices since we opened [in 2011]. So Edwin and Neal's had to compete with a fish place right around the corner with better price points."

Anthony DeGrezia, whose family owns several Italian restaurants, is managing Tableside. You can find their menu here.

Tableside is open 5-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday; to midnight on Friday-Saturday; and 10 p.m. on Sunday.

Thanks to Vinny & O for the photos!

Previously on EV Grieve:
Edwin and Neal's Fish Bar gives way to Tableside on 6th Street

Rise of the 'Empire' — Arturo Vega retrospective through April 20 at the Howl! Happening space

The "Empire: An Arturo Vega Retrospective" debuted this past Thursday at the Howl! Happening space on First Street.

Here's more about it via the Howl! website:

This ambitious survey runs through April 20 and will include guest lectures, performances and a panel discussion exploring Arturo Vega’s broader impact on popular culture while contextualizing his work as a visual artist.

Howl! Happening was established to honor Vega, his life and work, and his support for East Village artists, and we are particularly proud to be the second stop for the late Mexican-born artist’s U.S. museum retrospective. The exhibition features photography, collage and a number of iconic canvases from the artist’s Supermarket and Silver Dollar series (begun in the 70s); his Flags and so-called “word paintings” from Insults; and other series produced during the 80s, 90s and aughts. Of special note is his last major work, Life isn’t tragic, love is just being ignored, a mural commissioned in 2013 that hung on the corner of Prince and Elizabeth streets.

Escaping the repressive violence of an authoritarian regime under Mexico’s “perfect dictatorship” in the late 60s, Arturo Vega made his way to New York City to study English, philosophy and photography at the New School for Social Research in the early 70s.

While working on his first painting series of supermarket signs, he befriended members of the Ramones. Designing the Ramones’ ubiquitous logo based on the Great Seal of the United States, painting backdrops for their stage, and creating a lighting scheme loosely adapted from Albert Speer’s Lichtdom to enhance their effect, Vega created visual imagery that defined the transgressive aesthetic of punk rock by co-opting and questioning symbols of power.

You can check out the Howl! site for dates and times for the panels (there are two tomorrow).

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is at 6 E. First St. between the Bowery and Second Avenue. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday.

Vega died in June 2013. He was 65.

Noted

East Fourth Street today via Derek Berg... which was reminiscent of a scene on Avenue A many posts ago...


[Photo in 2015 by Derek Berg]

Have a good day

Here's "Everyday," a bouncy little number by the Glasgow-based Sacred Paws, who released their first full-length record earlier this year.

City getting desperate to remove remaining snow

Please hold your booing until the end of the post.

St. Mark's Place today.