September 10th, 2016
Tag: manhattan
Message from New York
Till we drop.
Except when we play.
Then back to work.
PS: We don’t smoke.
January 18th, 2017
Sad…!
January 20th, 2017 – Inauguration day.
The start of four long years. Four years too long.
Saturated
One of The City’s many facets – vibrant, almost technicolor, always dramatic. No color-correction at all, I actually had to tone it down a bit, to make seem more ”real”.
8:10pm
1st Ave & 58th str.
September 3rd, 2016
Rain of Light
My title, not the artist’s. The artist left it untitled so I thought, what if I call it ”Rain of Light”, isn’t it more fitting? Presumptuous may be, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw it illuminating the stairwell, making it an integral part of the museum rather than a solely utilitarian feature. I instantly thanked myself for choosing to take the stairs instead of the lift.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
”Untitled” (America), 1994
Twelve light strings, each with forty-two 15-watt lightbulbs and rubber sockets, at the stairwell of The Whitney Museum of American aRt.
September 10th, 2016
Lengthy Symmetry
There can be balance between extremes. It’s just a matter of finding the right proportions.
East 57th St.
September 11th, 2016
It snowed
And the City woke up in a haze. Dreaming still.
Meanwhile, at street-level, business as usual.
Real life was going on.
With a touch of salt, melting the snow and turning it dark brown with patches of grey.
Just another Saturday in winter in the City.
January 7th, 2017
Talking about subway art
Granted, beautiful artwork adorns many of New York’s subway stations, but the works featured at the newly opened Second Avenue Subway are our current darlings – and with very good reason!
Just look at these fabulous life-size mosaics at the Second Avenue-72nd Street by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. Based on staged photographs of people he knows, some ordinary, some made-up, others well-known Muniz named this series “Perfect Strangers” because that’s what people waiting for the train are: perfect strangers getting together for a brief moment before going about their separate ways.
On to Second Avenue-86th Street station, where the walls are adorned with Chuck Close’s ”Subway Portraits”, 12 large works based on his photo-realistic portrait paintings, transposed into mosaics or tiles.
Here are the portraits of the artist himself, artist Sienna Shields (whose identity it took me some digging to discover being unfamiliar with the local artistic milieu) and Lou Reed:
January 08th, 2017
No Sex, No City: Miranda
Steward Uoo
No Sex, No City: Miranda, 2013 (detail)
Polyurethane resin, epoxy, ink, pigment, acrylic paint, wires, cables, clothing, accessories, ferrofluid, razor wire, steel, feathers, human and synthetic hair, makeup, glitter, synthetic eyelashes, maggot cocoons, flies, dust, and other materials
When the unrelated, the unexpected and the repellent get together to form a thing of beauty.
At the Whitney Museum of American Art
September 10th, 2016
Getting your Wheaties right
A Toast to the Total Wheaties Champion…! He will always be my Fiber One…!
Here he is taking an inward pike dive into the warm pool of spicy Cinammon Chex! He’s no Vanilla boy, our Greg.
Oats! I’m being a bad girl now… Oh, go on then, Crunch-a-tize me Cap’n!
Games with Names (and four-time Olympic champion and the greatest diver in history, Greg Louganis) under the Triple Bridge Gateway, Port Authority of New York, Hell’s Kitchen.
December 30th, 2016
The Humble Fabulist 