Thiebaud bananas at the National Academy. Dig. (Taken with instagram)
This Facebook comment on our historic 42nd Street Art Project (1993) cracked us up. In related news, there will be an open bar tonight at Creative Time’s Benefit After Party!
This project was up in NYC when I first moved here in 1993. My sister and I spent an evening sitting in those wall chairs, watching Times Square go crazy in front of us. (Back when going crazy in Times Square involved watching people talk to themselves and buy edible underwear.)
A mugshot of Gypsy fortune-teller women, New York, 1943. From the Least Wanted archive. (Via.)
Adrian Villar Rojas’s massive clay/wood/styrofoam sculpture at the New Musuem triennial. More here.
The urban petroglyphs of Kevin Sudeith.
Every time I pop into the Brooklyn Museum, I love to check out this 1906 painting by Boris Anisfield with its supremely puffy clouds over the Black Sea. (Image courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.)
Happy New Year - from Times Sq, circa 1945. (Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.)
The original Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.
Central Park in 1860, under construction. (Via faslanyc.)
