Posts filed under 'Art'
Posters for Peace
Another Poster for Peace is a group of citizens committed to elevating the level of public engagement in the peace movement through design. Our goal is to help create a grassroots “anti-campaign” to counter the brilliant marketing the U.S. administration is currently running to promote its war agenda.
Add comment December 16, 2007
A Questionable Light Installation
Visitors enter the church through a lateral door and first see a scattered group of luminous spheres hovering in the choir. As one approaches the center of the entrance, the spheres form a giant question mark. They become a punctuation mark superposing religious symbols. As one moves through the church, the question mark decomposes. The figure becomes abstracted again in order to echo the figures of hanging cathedral lights. Contrasting the symmetry of the edifice, these luminous suspension points are like a sort of musical notation or holes punctuating the architectural volume. The question (or doubt) is absorbed by the space.
Light installation at Saint-Paul Saint-Louis church / Nuit Blanche Paris 2007
(A tip o’ the hat to SwissMiss)
Add comment December 16, 2007
Preserve the NYC Mosaic Trail
The East Village has about 70 mosaics created by Jim Power to define the area as an art colony. Now some need restoration.
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When Jim Power created his first mosaic on a lamppost on Astor Pace in 1987, a concrete band shell still stood inside Tompkins Square Park, admission to the CBGB club cost $5, and about the same amount could buy a night’s lodging in the Bowery.
Plenty in the East Village has changed in 20 years, and, some say, that is one good reason the dozens of pieces of public art created in the neighborhood by Mr. Power ought to be preserved.
Click here to read the complete story in The New York Times.
More About the Trail
Here’s website promoting a campaign to complete the Mosaic Trail. The site includes more images plus a map locating several mosaics in the East Village.
1 comment December 12, 2007
Frequent Flyer
For 36 weeks a sketchbook was sent in random order between four artists: two in Brooklyn, two in Belfast.
There was no communication between the artists concerning the content of the book during its making.
By the time it was completed the book had traveled over 60,000 miles.
Add comment November 7, 2007
