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Maya Hayuk’s Fuck is a rearranged mural she originally painted in Coney Island in 2015 and later specifically designed for Beyond the Streets Los Angeles in 2018. Inspired by the precise language of Jenny Holzer‘s electronic Installations, Hayuk reworked the painting on-site to read as a defiant and empowering declaration.
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Street art has a way of holding up a mirror to culture, and in Freeman Alley, that reflection comes in the form of Lisa Simpson — reimagined as the Statue of Liberty. The mural, by French street artist FREON , casts everyone’s favorite precocious saxophone player as Lady Liberty herself, torch raised high in the name of freedom, truth, and maybe a little sass (expected).
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While out for a neighborhood walk on Juneteenth, I stumbled upon a spectacular find: a gorgeous and very groovy mural has appeared on the wall outside Berlin Under A, one of the East Village’s last remaining live‑music venues. Created by artist Jane Beaird, the visually striking work is a spot-on recreation (complete with the band’s iconic imagery and typography) of the movie poster for Hung Up On A Dream, the recently-released, career-spanning documentary on 60s pop legends The Zombies. Talk about a trip!
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Street artist Jorit has recently created a series of murals in downtown Manhattan that explore the profound societal shifts brought on by artificial intelligence, explicitly drawing thematic influence from AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton. In these new works, the artist blends his signature hyper-realistic portraiture with neural network-inspired patterns, referencing the structure of deep learning models that Hinton helped to develop.
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Here today, gone tomorrow – that’s often the story with the street art in Freeman Alley. No one knows how long these murals, paste-ups, or stickers will last before they’re painted over or tagged into oblivion; it’s simply the nature of the beast. Such is the case with this beautifully surreal mural, which depicts a woman under an umbrella, sipping a martini while submerged up to her chest in what appears to be a flooded New York City.
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