Tag Archive "steve-powers"

Love! SEPTA! murals!–Romance lives

I got this heart-thumping bit of news from Mural Arts, which is capitalizing on the Steve Powers’ Love Letter murals for Valentine’s Day, and being a sap, I had to share. The thumper is that SEPTA, that’s right, SEPTA, is sponsoring a contest entitled Did You Find Love on SEPTA? Riders can submit their love stories of how SEPTA trains, buses or trolleys led them to love. Submissions go to shoyos@septa.org from now to Feb. 1, 2010.

A Love Letter for You

Last time I saw Annette Monnier (at Little Berlin’s BYOTY last weekend), she said she was going to take the West Philly el tour of ex-graffiti artist Steve Powers’ A Love Letter for You series of murals for the Mural Arts Program. I said I was going to do that too, but she got it done, and what a job she did! Here’s what she had to say.

Sanctioned wheatpastes! Mural Arts turns a corner.

The Mural Arts Program has been adding some new, contemporary tactics to their mission to paint the town red and blue and yellow. Here’s the link to a small story from yesterday’s Inky about an interesting MAP program that is distinctly contemporary, and a welcome change in tactics–featuring art that is, like the story, small enough to miss: ‘Quick and dirty’ street art drawing viewers to river

The week that was

A lot of openings in the last two weekends. I didn’t make them all but I’m going to run some pictures here with some links and say get out there and look around. So much to see so little time. PAFA, Oct. 19, 2006 Libby and I made it to the opening of Steven Power‘s show in PAFA‘s Morris Gallery but didn’t make Space is the Place (Outgoing PAFA Contemporary Art Curator Alex Baker‘s co-curated show also at PAFA). It’s up for a while and sounds good so we’ll be back for sure. Steve Powers, right, and Brian Campbell, doing ... More » »

Highlow is here

That’s what I’m going to call it. The new wonderful interweaving of all art genres in magazines and exhibits here there and seemingly everywhere. You probably saw the cover of this week’s New Yorker with the Kara Walker image “Post Katrina-Adrift.” Wonderful image, great artist, a “high” art powerhouse, and she’s got her first big solo museum retrospective opening at the Whitney in October. (Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, on view October 11, 2007-February 3,2008). Kara Walker’s cover in this week’s New Yorker magazine. And if that’s not great enough, P. 74 of the same ... More » »

Coney Island: just swim

Post by Brent Burket Too often fun in the NYC artworld is limited to getting drunk and having your picture taken at a Bellwether opening. That is very much not the case at The Dreamland Artist Club in Coney Island, an installation brought to us for the second summer in a row by the public arts organization Creative Time and curated by Steve Powers with Alexa Coyne. No. Here the fun is constant and bursting, a spinning thing. In a surreal and beautiful convergence of history, economics, and art The Dreamland Artist Club brings together artists from all over the ... More » »