Pop Goes New York

A few Sundays ago, we spent the day wandering around the city. A few shops, lunch and a museum make for an artful afternoon...

Calligraphic graffiti on Houston in Soho reminds us a bit of Mark Tobey

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A bit of sign language on 6th in the Village

Bike Path through a Lower East side park

New Converse store on Broadway in Soho

The School for Objects Criticized, Alexandre Singh at the New Museum

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Is it Art?

As many do in Manhattan, we often take the same route to get to our favorite places. As if blindfolded, we can get to our vintage shops, thrifts and local hangouts without even thinking...but always aware. Back in August we noticed something on one of these routes--a beautiful study in gray (below) on the side of a building on Crosby Street. Lovely without meaning to be. Then in September it changed--the tape had been removed and metal had been soldered around the square. Hmmm. And yesterday we saw him...a little figure just hanging out in the middle. We can't quite put our fingers on this oddity; installation, crowd sourced street art, coincidence?

August 12, 2010

September 17, 2010

October 11, 2010

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Monday Blues

There's a certain melancholy to some of the images we find/photograph. Whether it's the lighting, color, subject matter or a subjective response to an artist, we see a narrative that is as beautiful as it is sad or haunting.

1. & 2. Jim Joe, Jim Joe, Crosby Street in Soho

3. A peal of birch

4. Deer skull on a barn floor in upstate New York

5. Gary Komarin, Duke & Wigmore Series #1, at Broadbent Gallery

6. Gatoring paint in Athens, New York

7. 19th c. Taxidermy at Silsby Library, New Hampshire

8. Jim Joe, White & Brown, 14th Street

9. Fire escape and netting, Meatpacking District

10. Cy Twombly, Orpheus, 1979 at Tate

Art...Inside and Out

Whether in a gallery or just out and about, New York is a truly a mecca for great art. Here are some of our local finds, paired with more commercial works...

Figurative drawing atop scaffolding on Washington Street, NYC

Mimmo Paladino Qui, 1995

Shelf of canned tomatoes at Mario Batali's Eataly

Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup I, 1968

Wildposting on East 2nd Street, NYC

Lillian Gash Big Blossom

Soho street art

Takashi Murakami Tan Tan Bo, 2001

Words to Live By...Coney Island Style

Although the signage in Coney Island looks classically vintage, much of it was painting by a semi-homelss man named George Wallace. Wallace embodies the spirit and vision of Coney island and is a master at recreating time and place from an era long past.

New Faces in Familiar Places

From street art, to fine art, to local art (from Hudson County), we were introduced to some new faces last night as we walked to a dinner party at a friends in the West Village. New barricades in the Meat Packing district were already filled with wild-postinsg and stencil art, and our friend showed off some new acquisitions of her own once we arrived...

Wild-postings, Meat Packing District NYC

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Stencils, Meat Packing District NYC

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P.J. Smalley

Earl Swanigan

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Friendly Neighbors

We were introduced to some new neighbors this weekend during a short stroll through the Meat Packing District. We must admit, we're not experts on street art, but these images certainly captured our attention...