Art
The ‘Basic Necessities’ of Broome Street
Last modified October 22, 2021 at 6:45 pm
Six months ago, Basic Necessities became part of Broome Street. Conceived by artist Michelle Repiso, the multimedia project tackles “three individuals and the mechanisms they used to sustain their humanity while incarcerated.” Now, with an Artist Corps Grant, Repiso is taking it one step further with community engagement. Tomorrow, the artist will be crowdsourcing participants’ […]
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Muralist David Flores Tapped for New Bowery Wall Art
Posted October 13, 2021 at 5:02 am
The drum roll is up. Next in line at the Bowery Mural Wall is here. Muralist David Flores today joins the long list of artists at the Goldman Properties marketing vehicle. He announced the upcoming job via Instagram, standing in front of a whitewashed canvas, noting that “paint hits the wall, art is born.” Painting is […]
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Pencils Down: Famed LES Purveyor of Graphite Bows out Next Weekend
Posted October 11, 2021 at 5:01 am
The quirky Lower East Side pencil shop, CW Pencil Enterprise, has reached the end of the line. The so-called “purveyor of superior graphite,” which spent the last seven years pushing pencils of all persuasions, first on Forsyth then Orchard, is down for the count. Yet planning a final farewell for this weekend. Ownership announced the […]
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‘P&T Knitwear’ Indie Bookstore Joins Hotel Indigo Retail on Orchard Street
Posted October 7, 2021 at 5:07 am
A new indie bookstore and cafe is on the way to the Lower East Side. The retail vacancy at 180 Orchard Street has been snatched up by P&T Knitwear, and plans to open early next year. The owner is venture capitalist and philanthropist Bradley Tusk – founder of the Gotham Book Prize. He’s partnered with […]
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Stranger than Nostalgia: Jim Jarmusch Collage Art at James Fuentes Gallery
Last modified October 1, 2021 at 8:46 am
Back in 2016, Jim Jarmusch donated one of his rarely seen collage art pieces for an auction to benefit the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. The online auction at the time included other artists, as well as filmmakers from the director’s “No Wave” generation showcased in a group show on the Lower East Side. Since then, the filmmaker, […]
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Parks Department Repaints Allen Bathhouse to Erase Months of Artwork
Posted September 29, 2021 at 5:03 am
For Nadja Rose Madder, a summer of artwork at the Allen Street Bathhouse is abruptly erased. Parks Department repainted the doors and brickwork in its token burgundy red. The erasure happened on Monday, and followed one week after the city erected a chain-link enclosure around the bathhouse plaza in the middle of Delancey Street. That […]
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The City’s Battle to Keep One Artist from Reaching the Allen Bathhouse
Posted September 28, 2021 at 5:10 am
One street artist remains a thorn in the Lower East Side of the city. Nadja Rose Madder will not be deterred from her artistic muse – the Allen Street Bathhouse at Delancey. Parks Department claimed the chain-link enclosure installed last week was a “safety mechanism” to protect spillover of art and belongings into traffic. But […]
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Late Photographer Corky Lee Gets Mural Treatment on Doyers Street
Posted September 24, 2021 at 5:02 am
There is a new tribute mural in Chinatown that honors the memory of beloved photographer Corky Lee. The nascent Chinatown Mural Project is behind the new artwork, which stretches along a 35-foot wall on Doyers Street, the nerve center of Chinatown. The mural is two-toned – blue and off-white – and meant to resemble “Ming” […]
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Parks Department Installs Fence at Allen Mall Bathhouse in Response to Nadja Rose Madder
Posted September 23, 2021 at 5:02 am
The Parks Department is upping the ante on deterring a homeless artist from painting and gathering at the Allen Street Bathhouse. Earlier this week, the city began assembling an eight-foot chain-link enclosure to (partially) fence in the sidewalk plaza. It is on this spot that transgender artist Nadja Rose Madder has been transforming the brickwork […]
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Revisit Martha Diamond’s ‘Urbanist Art’ and Life on the Bowery Since 1969
Posted September 20, 2021 at 5:03 am
In case you missed Martha Diamond’s show at Magenta Plains on Allen Street back in January, the career-spanning exhibit at the Lower East Side gallery is now online. For a limited time, visitors to independent.org online viewing room will gain access to not just the past exhibit, but also an overview of Diamond’s career. There’s a […]
