Frank Lloyd Wright. March Balloons. 1955. Drawing based on a c. 1926 design for Liberty magazine. Colored pencil on paper, 28 1/4 x 24 1/2″ (71.8 x 62.2 cm). The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York) On […]
Shepard Fairey’s EARTH CRISIS mural is on the side of the Little Cupcake Bakeshop on St Marks Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. It appeared sometime in late September, 2015. The piece is easily noticeable for passers by, standing out against red brick. It uses thin lines of […]
I often find myself near the Pavilion Theater at the corner of 15th Street and Prospect Park on Bartel Pritchard Square, laughing, often out loud, at the poems featured on the marquee since July. They are slated to be up until the new Nitehawk theater opens this winter. My favorite […]
Salon Festivities After a long day full of lectures, reports, and essays, I met with my good friend Remi for a walk to unwind. We met in the middle of Brooklyn College on Bedford Avenue and walked to Remi’s apartment to relax. Since Remi lives on Flatbush Ave it was […]
Hive, by Leo Villareal, is a piece commissioned by the MTA in 2012 that illuminates the otherwise bleak, dingy ceiling of the Bleecker Street station. The piece is made of aluminum, stainless steel, and LED tubing that constantly morphs in and out of colors and gradients throughout the […]
When I was younger, I used to wonder about the celebrities I liked. As to who they really were. As to what it would be like to meet them. As to whether or not they were the same people I pictured them to be. And then, I met one of […]
Every day for the past two months, I have walked past this pair of murals that surrounds the entrance to a hair salon on my street. The large paintings were painted by Jamal Ince, dated 2014. Jamal Ince is a Brooklyn born artist with who has had his work in […]
Do you remember where you were on 9/11? I personally don’t but 9/11 will always remain as an important event in my memory. Located in the Bill Brown Playground & Park, which is located on Bedford Ave between Avenue X and Y, just two 2 blocks away from home, is […]
I can recall numerous times I have glanced at this statue but I cannot remember a time I actually stopped to understand it or tried to find the meaning behind it. It has been at the center of Major Mark Park on Jamaica, Queens for as long as I can […]
On Avenue J, by the Q train station and the B11/B6 bus stop, there is a rainbow-painted fire hydrant. It was first observed around the time of the supreme court ruling that said same sex marriage was a constitutional right. Since the rainbow flag is often associated with the LGBT […]
When I walk to the 63rd Drive-Rego Park subway station in the morning on my way to school, I have to go through a Long Island Rail Road underpass. Both walls of the underpass have been decorated thanks to the Rego Park Green Alliance’s Queens Art Intervention. Every year, the […]