Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned KAWS to create a mural as part of its remodel of an abandoned building at 31 Lafayette Street, across from the Peter J. Sharp Building. KAWS' mural features his best-known well-known characters with X-out eyes. In front of the mural is a bike rack designed by David Byrne.
Juliano-Villani’s irreverent artistry is fueled by her obsession with consumer culture and social taboo, resulting in a mirage of distorted iconography. Augmenting this strategy with an awareness of representational painting’s history, she produces images derived from a personal archive of books, magazines, and photographs, as well as from online sources. Using acrylic, airbrush, and oil painting techniques, she incorporates fragments of her own writing and elements of the work of other artists such as Danish painter and sculptor Ovartaci (1894–1985). Juliano-Villani’s work also refers to cartoons, addressing racial, sexual, and social stereotypes through their mischievous wit and unsettling ambiguity. For her, these kinds of images are “democratic, based on impulse and speed; much like a sniper with a vision.”
Available Works," an art book fair that was held in September 2023 to great acclaim, will be held at Water Street Associates (WSA), an institution located downtown that is a leader in current New York City culture, including art, fashion, and food, and is the source of various events.
BRITISH ARTIST LUCY SPARROW RETURNS TO NEW YORK CITY WITH ‘FELTZ BAGELS’A BAGEL BAKERY MADE ENTIRELY FROM FELT.
Internationally acclaimed artist Lucy Sparrow first brought her felted world to New York Cityin June 2017 with her felt ‘faux-dega’ 8 Till Late – a fully stocked convenience store filled with9,000 handmade artworks. This October, Lucy returns to Manhattan with Feltz Bagels, anartistic homage to the city’s legendary culinary delicacy and the neighbourhood bagel jointsof the Lower East Side that made them famous.Opening on 3 October, in association with TW Fine Art, Lucy will transform an emptystorefront on the Lower East Side into a fully immersive Bagel Bakery where visitors can buytheir favourite lunch order handmade in felt and served personally by Sparrow herself. FeltzBagels will offer thirteen varieties of bagel - each hand-sewn and available filled or plain witha sewn selection of NY staples; choose from a poppyseed bagel with a schmear, a colourfulrainbow salt-beef bagel or the everything bagel filled with pastrami and pickles.
