Friday, August 27, 2010
Cat days of August
Oops, forgot to run this feature last Friday! So this is from the one store on Avenue B between Sixth Street and Seventh Street that I can't remember the name of right now.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Work under way at the Deitch wall
A crew is currently prepping the wall at Houston and the Bowery for a work by Barry McGee (aka Twist) ...
And I hope it's not an ad for this... currently parked across the Bowery...
Labels:
Barry McGee,
East Houston Street,
street art,
the Bowery
Help the East Side Community School win $500,000
Over on 12th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue, students and teachers are outside with computers to get people to vote online so that the school can win $500,000 in the Kohl's Cares for Kids contest. Per the reader who sent me the photos and tip: "It's pretty cool to see them all out there doing this." The students and teachers will be out until later this evening. (Hoping they get in before the zombies arrive!) You can also vote from home. If you go to www.eschs.org, then you'll find more details.
What's next for the Deitch wall?
A reliable source passed along word that Barry McGee (aka Twist) is up next on the Deitch wall on Houston and The Bowery. Deitch alum Kathy Grayson is now apparently serving as the curator.
Here is some of his recent work, via the Deitch website:
Four months in the tumultuous short life of the Shepard Fairey mural
As I reported yesterday, workers removed what was left of the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and the Bowery... (The mural was to remain up until Dec. 31.)
Last night, our friend Bryan Waterman did a little detective work and concluded that the build-out remains over what was here before — the Os Gêmeos art...
So let us go back to the middle of April...
And, sometime during the weekend of April 16, someone removed the Os Gêmeos art...
Then, on April 20, Shepard Fairey arrived to start work...
April 21!
And the next day, the first tag appeared, as reported by Animal New York... graffiti writer NAW tried to add a little something ... which didn't go over well with the security guard on duty...
[Photo: ANIMALNewYork]
Per the Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG) on April 22: "I suspect this piece gets dissed and fixed many times."
The week of April 26, Jeremiah discussed some of the ongoing vandalism issues with on the mural... (You can read those here, here and here.)
Then the kicking began!
Paul Richard added his mark on May 7...
By the week of May 10, cleanup crews were busy removing the tags...
On May 15 — the epic bombing.
Soon, it became a game of tag, clean, tag, clean...
Workers placed a plaque on the scene in June...nearly six weeks after the mural went up...
The holes and tags continued through June...
By the end of June, the mural was falling to pieces... people continued to pick and rip...
July 7
As Jeremiah first reported, workers covered up half the mural on July 9....
On July 12, the dicks arrived.
[Photo credit: DNAinfo]
And so it went...
July 17...
July 18
July 20
July 24...
Aug. 8...
Yesterday, it all came to an end...
Many other people covered the ongoing saga here...including, but not limited to:
BoweryBoogie
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
DNAinfo
NYC the Blog
Animal NY
Awkword World View
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