On May 20th, a group of five artists used cash advances from their credit cards to buy the entire inventory of a small corner store in New York City’s West Village. The Store Buyout project was partly a work of charity, as the 40 year old business was in danger of closing, as well as a conceptual art project. The 3000 or so items purchased are now on display at the Fusion Arts Museum in the Lower East Side, to be resold as art pieces at a substantial markup.
The leader of the project, Kyle MacDonald, is best known for the One Red Paperclip project, in which he bartered his way from a paperclip to a house in Canada.
"New York Sugar Metropolis" is an upcoming participatory art installation in which the public will be invited to help build a sprawling miniature city made of more than 500,000 sugar cubes. The installation will be located at the Sugar Hill building in Harlem and will be built in June 2014…
The "lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening" has been found at Artisanal Pencil Sharpening, Inc., a project by craftsman David Rees. For $15, Rees will not only hand-sharpen a pencil for you, he will also provide the pencil. Gothamist recently attended a free event at New York City's Pete's Candy…
"Surface to Structure: Folded Forms" is an exhibition of origami art coming to 41 Cooper Gallery in New York City, June 19 to July 4, 2014. The exhibition will include works by 80 origami masters and up and coming artists from around the world. The exhibition's curator, Uyen Nguyen, is…
by Bill Posters Brandalism was a recent anti-advertising campaign in which an international team of 25 artists contributed artworks that were covertly installed on billboards in the UK. You can see the results of the campaign on the Brandalism gallery page. Following on from the guerilla art traditions of the…
Artsy has posted a photo tour that offers a rare glimpse of the New York City studio of street artist JR. The studio is a shared living and working space for a community of artists and is full of art produced by its artist-residents. JR is the creator of the…
