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UP For Debate: Artist Gregory de la Haba Agitates the Street
De la Haba shared an Instagram post on October 24th, 2023 featuring a new artwork that collages and composites six doors and entrance ways that still exist in some form around the five boroughs, all covered with years of tags, stickers, graffiti and other street detritus. As of this writing, the post has 109 comments, many of them from street artists-some quite salty, some pleasantly titillated. The debate concerns de la Haba creating a massive hi-res photographic print that blends and remixes 14 years of his own photographs of these various doors, some more iconic than others, like the door to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s famed studio at 57 Great Jones Street in Manhattan, where he died. Inciting further ire from several street artists whose work can be seen in the photo collage, is the fact that the large-scale print is actually indoors.
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Phillips Gallery – Never Above 14 Street: A Downtown NYC Art Show
“Never Above 14 Street” at Phillips Gallery presented original works of art mostly from 1980’s but a few from 1990’s by artists Lady Pink, Seen, Crash, Futura 2000, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mike Bidlo, Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, David McDermott and Peter McGough, Dondi White and Linus Coraggio.
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Phillips: 1970S / GRAFFITI / TODAY
Phillips Gallery, an ultra-luxury art space at 432 Park, is now exhibiting work by graffiti and street art legends. Kurt Boone interviews Arnold Lehman, the curator and the man who made it happen.