EV Grieve

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...

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!