Sliding into the chaos this week with great new stuff that hits on pop, poetry, technology. The madness of New York sometimes fuels the message on the street; other times it feels like NYC is merely channeling the forces that run through it. Embrace the chaos!
If you have a chance please check out the “Punk Lust” show at Museum of Sex, curated by Carlo McCormick and a small team. The array of zines, record covers, posters, photography, costume and McCormicks’ brilliant didactics is revelatory for its take on a distinctly New York punk scene that was simultaneously awash with discontents from LA and London and an utter revulsion at the likes of the Reagan/Thatcher Revolution.
Yeah but how was sex involved, you ask? Wayne and Jayne, you’ll be surprised. Check out Scott Lynch’s excellent photos on Bedford and Bowery of the opening.
We used to say that half of the New York art world was in Miami when Art Basel rolls around every year – and again many artists are making the trek to the art fairs and to Wynwood to see whose hitting walls this week. But we’re sensing a twisted sort of backlash in people’s opinions these days – kind of like Williamsburg in 2008 and Bushwick in 2014. But Dude, it’ll still be a party, yo!
So here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Adam Fujita, Calangoss, Edward Senf, Graphic Fury, Himbad, JerkFace, Little Pink Pill, Luis, Lunge Box, Mr. Frostee, REVS, Sac Six, Trasher, and WISE .
Top Image: Edward Senf is feeling lucky. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fu (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calangoss (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WISE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Three Eye Raven… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr. Frostee (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr. Frostee (photo © Jaime Rojo)
So what…indeed… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Him good. Himbad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trasher (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Luis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Revs (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Little Pink Pills . Graphic Fury (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SacSix (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The firewood prevented us from getting this artists’ ID…please help… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Great to see these Estonians in New York – we talked about them during an art/technology BSA Film Weekend in Stockholm this year. A ghostly image done with a spray robot by Spray Printer. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lunge Box (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg Bridge/East Side River. Brooklyn, NY. November 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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