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If you’re going to shop in a Pink Store you might as well do it using a Pink Shopping Cart, amiright? These visually delightful shopping carts (in the UK: shopping trolleys) were spotted inside Sweet Cats Cafe, located at 21 East 17th Street near Union Square!
Oh, the Pinkness!
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The final object that I photographed before ending my visit to the closing day of Beyond The Streets was this Pink Shopping Cart. The cart wasn’t really part of the exhibit, but it was tucked away in an access corridor and I spied it on my way to the elevators. Because: Pink Thing.
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Ivan Navarro uses electric light as his primary medium, appropriate the austere visual language of Minimalism and imbuing it with political resonance. For Homeless Lamp, the Juice Sucker (2004–05), he built a grocery cart out of fluorescent tubes and, with it, wandered to the gallery-lined streets of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The luminous sculpture evokes the work of Dan Flavin while also referencing an object commonly repurposed by homeless people for storage and transportation. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Ivan Navarro’s Homeless Lamp, The Juice Sucker
Abandoned Italian Ice Cart, Avenue B and 11th Street (All Photos By Gail)
Geoffrey said a funny thing to me today, which is that he read on the Interwebs that Winter Storm Juno was not so much a Blizzard as it was “a Storm with a Very Good Publicist.” Hah! So true. Juno failed to completely kick our asses to the curb but it did leave about six inches of white fluffy stuff on the ground.
At lunch today, I went for a walk in the hood and took some pictures. This is what it looked like around Noon on the day after the snowstorm in the East Village, NYC. Continue reading NYC East Village: Post-Juno in the Park!