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Michael Albert, Map of Manhattan

Michael Albert, Map of Manhattan

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Are you going to any of fairs during Armory Arts Week in New York City?

If so, which ones? What are your thoughts on them? Any favorites fair(s)? Artist(s)? Artwork(s)?

  • The Armory Show, Piers 92 & 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street, $30
  • The Art Show, Park Avenue at 67th Street, $20
  • Pulse New York, 330 West Street (corner of West Side Highway and West Houston), $20
  • Scope New York, Pavilion at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, 62nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, $20
  • VOLTA New York, 7 West 34th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), $15
  • Fountain New York, Pier 66 at 26th Street and West Side Highway in Hudson River Park, $10
  • Red Dot New York, Skyline Studios, 500 West 36th Street at 10th Avenue, $10
  • Verge New York, The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41st Street (Between Madison and Park Avenues), $10
  • PooL New York, Gershwin Hotel, 27th Street and 5th Avenue, $10
  • Independent, 548 West 22nd Street, Free
  • Dutch Art Show, The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, Free
  • Korean Art Show, la.venue, 608 West 28th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenue, Free

Info via Flavorwire

NYC, St. Marks Place, 1968 New York City 60s and 70s album by timewitness

NYC, St. Marks Place, 1968

New York City 60s and 70s album by timewitness

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NYC, 5th Ave., from New York City 60s and 70s album by  timewitness

NYC, 5th Ave., from New York City 60s and 70s album by  timewitness

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Lothar Osterburg, Brooklyn Bridge, 2006

Lothar Osterburg, Brooklyn Bridge, 2006

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Berenice Abbott, Oyster Houses, South Street and Pike Slip, New York City, April 1, 1937. These houseboats moored under the Manhattan Bridge sold oysters to restaurants and hotels. The oysters were shipped in from Long Island, and the shells, like those piled up in Abbott’s photograph, were sent on to New Jersey as feed for chicken farms. Project researcher Edith Brandinger interviewed Mr. Nikolaus, who took over Housman’s oyster house when the last member of the family died. Nikolaus explained that the Housmans had been in the oyster business since 1810. The houseboats, which were probably built in the 1860s, were once privately owned but by the 1930s were owned by the city and leased to their occupants. Although Nikolaus claimed that houseboats kept oysters fresher and cooler than an indoor market, these two boats were the last in what was once a fleet of 50. The 1937 New York telephone directory lists 17 oyster houses, almost all with Fulton Fish Market addresses, several blocks south and on land. At the end of Pike Slip today is a commercial parking lot, standing in the shadow of an elevated portion of the F.D.R. Drive. At water’s edge, homeless people have built makeshift shelters. Abbott bought her first 8-x-10-inch view camera in 1930, and these oyster houses were her first subject. Unfamiliar with the camera’s swings and tilts, Abbott could not control the impression that the houses were collapsing in upon each other. When she returned to the site in 1937, she again distorted her subject, but in a controlled manner. She “stretched” the composition to include within the frame the two oyster houses, the overhead span of the Manhattan Bridge, the heap of shells in the foreground, and the oceanliner in the distance at the right edge. This all-inclusive approach produced a pair of rich contrasts: the small-scale, nineteenth-century maritime vessels with the huge sleek oceanliner, and the rectilinear maze of modern engineering above with the heap of primitive organic matter below. Abbott took this photograph on the same day as Grand Street, nos. 605-609, which also exploits the expressive possibilities of a wide-angle view. via MCNY

Berenice Abbott, Oyster Houses, South Street and Pike Slip, New York City, April 1, 1937.

These houseboats moored under the Manhattan Bridge sold oysters to restaurants and hotels. The oysters were shipped in from Long Island, and the shells, like those piled up in Abbott’s photograph, were sent on to New Jersey as feed for chicken farms. Project researcher Edith Brandinger interviewed Mr. Nikolaus, who took over Housman’s oyster house when the last member of the family died. Nikolaus explained that the Housmans had been in the oyster business since 1810. The houseboats, which were probably built in the 1860s, were once privately owned but by the 1930s were owned by the city and leased to their occupants. Although Nikolaus claimed that houseboats kept oysters fresher and cooler than an indoor market, these two boats were the last in what was once a fleet of 50. The 1937 New York telephone directory lists 17 oyster houses, almost all with Fulton Fish Market addresses, several blocks south and on land. At the end of Pike Slip today is a commercial parking lot, standing in the shadow of an elevated portion of the F.D.R. Drive. At water’s edge, homeless people have built makeshift shelters.

Abbott bought her first 8-x-10-inch view camera in 1930, and these oyster houses were her first subject. Unfamiliar with the camera’s swings and tilts, Abbott could not control the impression that the houses were collapsing in upon each other. When she returned to the site in 1937, she again distorted her subject, but in a controlled manner. She “stretched” the composition to include within the frame the two oyster houses, the overhead span of the Manhattan Bridge, the heap of shells in the foreground, and the oceanliner in the distance at the right edge. This all-inclusive approach produced a pair of rich contrasts: the small-scale, nineteenth-century maritime vessels with the huge sleek oceanliner, and the rectilinear maze of modern engineering above with the heap of primitive organic matter below. Abbott took this photograph on the same day as Grand Street, nos. 605-609, which also exploits the expressive possibilities of a wide-angle view.

via MCNY

H&M - New York City Art Contest

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‘Your Art Here’ is a new contest that is bent on giving one artist the opportunity to gain an extreme amount of exposure by presenting the winning artists’ work in the H&M 42nd & 5th Ave. store front window.

The winner will also receive:

- $5,000 stipend to support an up-and-coming art career
- $500 H&M gift card
- Roundtrip airfare and accommodations in New York City while installing the piece in the store window.
- Up to $15,000 installation budget.

Visitors to the website get to vote on their artwork of choice and the top ten vote getting artworks will compete in a final round where they are reviewed by a panel of judges from H&M and art world personalities, including:
- Thierry Guetta, AKA Mr. Brainwash
- Nancy Barton, Professor of Art and Art Education at Steinhart NYU
- Daniel V, the blogger behind JazJaz
- Adele Treschow, designer and contemporary artist

All entries must be received by October 15th, 2010.

Be creative. Get noticed.

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