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Logan Hicks and Lori Zimmer: An Artful Pairing
He’s a world-renowned artist who uses stencils and spray paint to create intricate, photorealistic, images of buildings, people and other things. She’s the author of four books, including a pair of delightfully offbeat guidebooks to hidden art in New York and Paris. They share a home and studio space in East Williamsburg as well as an international, trans-media artistic vision shaped over decades of individual experience and nearly a decade as a couple. Meet Lori Zimmer and Logan Hicks, as told by Scott Or and photographed by Daryl-Ann Saunders.
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Two Sides of Paul Richard
Paul Richard, the artist New Yorkers love for his sidewalk drip-paintings, brings his fine-art portraiture and other works to the new Street Art Suite on the 44th floor of Soho’s Dominick Hotel.
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UP Magazine’s 10 Most Read Articles Of 2022
To close out 2022, UP Magazine is proud to share our 10 most read articles of the year, featuring a variety of artists, businesses, and creatives who made waves in this riptide of a year.
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PhoebeNewYork: You’d Like Her
Now at West Chelsea Contemporary: Libby Schoettle and her alter ego PhoebeNewYork, the fashion conscience sprite whose street corner counsel has engaged and inspired a generation of New Yorkers.
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The LISA Project’s 10 Year Street Art Odyssey
Ten years after it sprang from a pair of murals on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, the LISA Project has been responsible for hundreds of murals on the streets of NYC and beyond.
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Is Freemans Alley About to Go Commercial?
After decades as the Lower East Side’s go-to open air art gallery, Freeman Alley is facing pressure to go commercial. Not if the LES street art community has anything to say about it.
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Blek Le Rat Quits NYC, But Leaves His Mark
French graffiti pioneer Blek le Rat quit NYC to continue his U.S. tour in Texas, but left behind beautiful and engaging work on streets across the city.
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At WCC, A Solo Show for Monsieur le Rat
J. Scott Orr profiles the storied career of legendary French stencil artist Blek le Rat, with an exclusive interview & preview of the work for Blek’s new solo show at West Chelsea Contemporary, opening Saturday August 20th.
