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Heroes & Charlatans: OTHER PROJECTS
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. A Beautiful Ruin: The Rebirth of New York, 1975-1986. This project has been supported by grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Bring to Light, New York's First Nuit Blanche, Noble Street, Greenpoint. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Art with the Police. Flint Public Art Project. Downtown Flint (photo: Lisa Zacks) Purpose Flint Public Art Project seeks to produce new image. Discussions on Networked Publics: Thoughts on the Archipocalypse. From the Armory Show, #1. BAUHAUS...
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Heroes & Charlatans: December 2010
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. Dec 8, 2010. Experiments in Applied Reporting. Rosa Valado of Woven Spaces. Curated a great show. In Greenpoint last month, Golden Blueprints: Grids, Blocks, Charts and Graphs. That displayed imaginative visions of North Brooklyn by local artists, hosted by the publisher of Williamsburg Greenpoint Art News. I met Valado through Ethan Pettit. An urbanist with a long history in North Brooklyn who used to be a co-director with me at the Collective: Unconscious. Notes on N.O....
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Heroes & Charlatans: January 2012
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. Jan 27, 2012. Culture and Action in Greenpoint, Jan 28 - Feb 27. Image by Erin Knutson. It's an especially active season of culture-and-community-meeting right now in Greenpoint, so we want to make sure friends and colleagues are fully aware of everything we know about that's coming up. In particular, we would like to encourage everyone to support the Greenpoint Monitor Museum. Of the launch of the Monitor, the ironclad Civil War ship built on our shore. Jan 28, 9 AM. Winter Bir...
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Heroes & Charlatans: May 2012
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. May 28, 2012. Community Formation and Design on the Gowanus. A few weeks ago, Hans Hesselein of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy organized a community design charrette for a green corridor on Degraw Street that would hold stormwater and nourish plantings between the Douglass/ Green Park and the Gowanus Canal. Karine Duteil and Nadej Hocini of KaN Landscape Designs led the process as part of DesigNYC’s 2012 Recharging Communities program. Clustered around the canal are warehouses an...
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Heroes & Charlatans: March 2015
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. Mar 11, 2015. Armory Show 2015: Instagram-Friendly Art. Ahmed Mater, Cowboy Code (Hadith). Made of plastic gun caps, Ahmed Mater compares the code of ethics of the American West and statements of Mohammed, known as the Hadith. No time to hit all of the art fairs this year. It would have been great to see the artists performing the Black Lives Matter protest at the Armory Show on Saturday. Mona Marzouk, Trayvon #3. 2014 at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. Susan Hefuna, Untitled.
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Heroes & Charlatans: December 2011
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. Dec 26, 2011. You Will Be Gentrified, In Good Fun. Falletta presented the development at Machine Project. An alternative event and educational space in Echo Park, as the first event of Boundary Pageant, a monthly series of talks organized by Rosten Woo. Cofounder, with Newark urban designer Damon Rich, of New York’s Center for Urban Pedagogy. Posted by Stephen Zacks. Dec 17, 2011. Materials for Protest and Memory. Los Angeles-based photographer Farrah Karapetian. The immediacy o...
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Heroes & Charlatans: March 2012
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. Mar 25, 2012. Report on the October 2011 Bring to Light Project. The following report evaluates the impact of our work on behalf of the Oct. 1, 2011 Bring to Light, Nuit Blanche New York project that we co-founded the previous year in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The work was supported by the Newtown Creek Fund Environmental Benefits Program, established as part of the agreement to upgrade the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant, located in the neighborhood. In particular, we s...
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Heroes & Charlatans: Armory Show 2015: Instagram-Friendly Art
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. Mar 11, 2015. Armory Show 2015: Instagram-Friendly Art. Ahmed Mater, Cowboy Code (Hadith). Made of plastic gun caps, Ahmed Mater compares the code of ethics of the American West and statements of Mohammed, known as the Hadith. No time to hit all of the art fairs this year. It would have been great to see the artists performing the Black Lives Matter protest at the Armory Show on Saturday. Mona Marzouk, Trayvon #3. 2014 at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. Susan Hefuna, Untitled.
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Heroes & Charlatans: Art with the Police
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. May 2, 2015. Art with the Police. A project I just completed in my home town, Flint, Michigan, (though I still live in Brooklyn) has a very indirect relationship to the news for the past two weeks from Baltimore. One of the guys said, "That's called poverty.". After a nonstop two weeks of work that included another project at the nearby Welch Avenue business strip. With Ben Gaydos, working in cooperation with Michigan State troopers and city of Flint Police Department through th...
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Heroes & Charlatans: November 2011
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FLINT PUBLIC ART PROJECT. Nov 29, 2011. The Blue Light at Storefront. At Storefront for Art and Architecture right now, there's a really special light and performance installation. Reminiscent of Fluxus artist LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House. The light and sound installation on Church Street established 18 years ago with help from the Dia Foundation. See a video of the performance here. This is free and open to the public. Go see it. A lot of fun. Posted by Stephen Zacks. A panel of youngi...
