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Happy 90th to Alex Katz, the artist behind one of our first projects, Nine Women.
Wishing David Hammons a very Happy Birthday! We have been honored to work with the artist on two exhibitions.
Can art be funny and serious at the same time? Using social media-inspired effects, artist Meriem Bennani subverts audience expectations of both pop culture and her own Muslim community with unexpected playfulness and pathos. “I feel like I have a hard time connecting to anything that doesn’t have humor,” says the artist, “because for me humor is like survival.”
Check out Commercial Break artist Meriem Bennani in @art21‘s latest in their summer shorts series.
#tbtFélix González-Torres, “Untitled (Billboard Poster)”1989, created in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, which occurred in the Stonewall Bar directly across the street from the billboard site in 1969. The first Pride March followed a year later. Happy Pride Weekend, NYC.
“Out of the depths, I cry to you, Lord.” (Psalm 130) At first glance, this Brooklyn Bridge Park exhibition is depressing. It seems as if the water is being sucked to the depths of the earth. But after a period of time, “Descension” becomes a meditative experience. “Just look to your soul/And open your mind…” (”Crystal Blue Persuasion” by Tommy James & The Shondells) (Photo taken on June 6, 2017)
The living work of art is on view at MetroTech Commons through March of 2018.
Did you know Shake Shack was born out a Public Art Fund project?
In today’s NY Post about the secrets behind the burger: “In 2001, restaurateur Danny Meyer placed an “I <3 Taxi” hot dog cart in Madison Square Park as part of a Public Art Fund project with Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul. The idea was a fully functioning frankfurter stand that would operate alongside sculptures of taxis on stilts, with murals painted on the undercarriage. The concept got Meyer, who was known for higher-brow restaurants, such as Union Square Cafe and Gramercy Tavern, thinking about bringing the “enlightened hospitality” he was known for to more casual pursuits.”
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