Anyone who’s ever been checked into a hospital knows they are both sterile and alienating environments. RxArt works with some of the most renowned and respected artists and arts professionals working today to provide exposure to the finest contemporary art in patient, procedure and examination rooms of healthcare facilities.
Their wonderful team of accomplished individuals have been [...]
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NYC Typography
Walking around New York City and looking at signage is a thousand times better than even the best typography book. New York is a mecca of type. It’s everywhere anywhere. Up, down, left, and right.
Designer Jason Powers has recently started a Nyctype.com, a blog focusing strictly on typography from the streets of New York City. The [...]
Jay Gard: DoubleGard
Half Gallery (208 Forsyth St, New York, New York, 10002) will feature DoubleGard from June 10th - July 10th. It’s the first solo show for German sculptor Jay Gard, a former assistant to Tom Sachs. The chain of command, the grandeur of artifice and the empowerment struggle: all are themes you’ll find three -dimensionalized in this ambitious [...]
Fingerpaint NYC
Next Wednesday, the 28th, from 7 to 11pm, there will be a pretty amazing event. Held at the 10,000sq ft historic former space of the Dia Gallery (548 West 22nd Street) in Chelsea, 25 emerging photographers from around the country will showcase their best work; the photos they felt most represented who they are, and [...]
‘Handy Signs’ by Espo
“Instead of using the current modes of expression associated with the advertising industry, Espo draws from an earlier era of words and images - the bygone idiom of the handpainted sign. Powers strives for authenticity in reviving this artisan’s pursuit, employing the richly vibrant, albeit highly toxic, One Shot sign painter’s enamel in his artistic [...]
The Subway Sun 1940-1960
I found the following collection of vintage mass transportation ads while reading Grotesk’s 12ozProphet blog. It’s a collection of “amazing ads from the NY mass transportation from the 40’s to the 60’s.” The magazine used to be called The Subway Sun, and is the predecessor of the now called “Subway talk” that you see in [...]
The MoMa approves of graffiti
The New York State Penal code says that the accused’s “malicious intent” to damage property constitutes the difference between a fourth degree misdemeanor charge and other more serious misdemeanor and felony charges for criminal mischief (i.e. graffiti). Practically speaking, this demand to prove destructive “intent”, makes these judges-turned-curators ask a variation of that dusty, old [...]
