On the streets of Long Island City, art wrought from chalk, soon to wash away.
long island city art
Walking in LIC
On a quiet winter day, there's still much to see around Long Island City, including strange scrawls, sculpture, and slush.
Whitewashed
Sad to see 5Pointz reduced from its former glory; last month, the vibrant murals that used to cover the building were whitewashed. New York is a system of constant flux, but it hurt a little to see the art of this quirky neighborhood attraction so flippantly destroyed.
Better than BBF?
For lack of a Queens Book Festival to rival the one in Brooklyn, my allegiance is with Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, held at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City. It runs through Sunday and will be open tomorrow from 11 am to 7 pm.
I picked up a few books here and there, had some nibbles from M. Wells Dinette, and wandered for quite awhile. But perhaps my favorite thing was the Paperwork exhibit in Gallery T; the small exhibit presented scrapbooks of a number of artists, including John Evans, Ray Johnson, and Brigid Berlin -- fascinating eye candy for any keeper of notebooks, any accumulator of odds and ends.
