On 8/17/2011 14:51, steve harley wrote:
On 2011-08-17 11:10 , Bruce Walker wrote:
On 11-08-17 11:04 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
This "post no Bills" area on 10th st and 4th ave is never without posts.
behind it is a small vacant lot - been that way for a while.
http://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/New-York-Snaps-2011/15389206_z3saz/1/1371368453_9nxhL8q/Large
can't really see the content of the photos, but they seem to be varied
enough, and the concept engaging enough, that encountering that wall
would excite and uplift me; since the wall was already abundantly tagged
i see the photos as a "remix"
Actually, I kinda see my photo as a remix, too... What I often find
interesting as "found art" is the textures that ensue when the bills
that are posted get destroyed by weather and start coming apart - and
it would be nice to think the posters of the little photographs thought
about the effect as a whole... hard to know what propted it but the
wall is around the corner from Cooper Hewitt, PRatt Institute and more
or less "on' the greater NYU campus - etc.. lots of art students around.
reminds me of a gallery in Denver that got a large number of
photographers to agree to have their work blown up on cheap photocopies,
two feet by three feet or so, and wheatpasted in dozens of outdoor
locations around town (all by permission), as well as in a few other
cities worldwide; it was part of Denver's "month of photography" in
March, which had some fantastic other exhibits, but this show had the
most immediacy
<http://www.illiteratemedia.com/exhibitions/2011/bigpic/>
Maybe the perps in this case knew about the March event and possibly
even sent it up, using little photos. None of the photos on my wall
as stand alones interested me much but as a whole on top of that
Hans Hoffmanesque tangle of torn paper I was intrigued.
I'm not sure if the weather did these little photos in or if the were
all carefully removed en mass.. but they were not up long... I pass
that wall often going to and from my apt to the closest post office,
UNion square, my favorite thrift store, Trader' JOe's and "whole Paycheck"
ann
It's a tough call deciding where vandalism ends and art begins. The
authorities
are struggling with that issue in Toronto this year. Some actually
commissioned
street art was painted over by city employees on an "eradicate vandalism"
campaign. So now the city has agreed to rehire the artist to do his
work over
again in an attempt to save face.
a very similar faux pas occurred in Denver during the feverish cleanup
in advance of the Democratic National Convention in 2008
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