I Wish I Was A Real Person is a play on the Jean-Michel Basquiat quote, “I’m Not a Real Person. I’m a Legend”. When I learned of the immense success and influence he had during his short life, I was baffled as to why he wasn’t more known in mainstream circles. He is both a legend AND a real person in art history yet most people outside of creative circles know the names Picasso, Warhol or Van Gogh, but if asked to name a successful Black artist who wasn’t an actor or musician they would be at a loss. This seems to be a common trend with Black “fine artists” both past and present. I Wish I Was A Real Person represents all Black artists whose narratives and identities have been obscured from art history and contemporary art culture. #painting #portrait #artist #basquiat #jeanmichelbasquiat #greatjonesstreet #keepcreatingnscad #samo #legend #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #canadianartist #bermudianartist #blackartist #27club #identity #blackman #imnotarealpersonimalegend #fineartist #arthistory #blackartmatters (at Halifax, Nova Scotia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4hfcunwZ3/?igshid=wg6itfyrn7ei

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition “King Pleasure” at the Starrett Lehigh Building on West 26th Street today. It was especially interesting to see how they recreated his studio space from the early 1980s at Great Jones Street with paintings and art books on the floor, art leaned up against the wall, art supplies, tv, stereo, etc. #kingpleasure #jeanmichelbasquiat #basquiat #greatjonesstreet #nyc #arthistory #basquiatstudio #basquiatart #starrettlehigh #chelsea #artexhibition #contemporaryart (at Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcyTlkJl1Tq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Repost @gustonkitchen (@get_repost) ・・・ Marcia Marcus (b.1928) is an American figurative painter, born in New York City. Currently on view at Eric Firestone Loft, is an impeccably curated selection of 24 works - which tell a story about the life and observation of life, during the 60s and 70s. Marcia uses portraiture as a form of performance and self contemplation. While this is not uncommon amongst artists as a subject matter, the intimacy and finished work is clarified in a way that successfully divides itself between flat imagery on a surface and a felt space. Working from life, of herself and her subjects - the use of acrylic, oil and gold and silver leafing is present. The serene quality to her work allows space for contemplation and wanting to contemplate - as the artist once said ‘People would love to have paintings they don’t want to look at’. In an era where artwork is rapid and observation is disconnected, it is refreshing to see works that encourage the desire to postulate, in time, what these works are trying to say. ‘Marcia Marcus, Role Plays Paintings 1958-1973’ is on view to 2 December. • Marcia Marcus, Tyna, Alvin, and Baby, acrylic on canvas, 1970/71 (49.75 x 40 in.) • #morningsoup #artnyc #art #fineart #artreview #artgallery #loveart #interiordesign #interiors #arthistory #architecture #painting #drawing #sculpture #photography #ericfirestonegallery #marciamarcus #greatjonesstreet #portrait #figurepainting #womensart https://www.instagram.com/momattos/p/BrFCW0LFm-U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uo613l9ourc9

Short video on #greatjonesstreet #graffitiart #pandemic2020😷 #lowereastside https://www.instagram.com/p/CAu8d74jsJ7diHMriQFdNMGuH-ArgvAwnf0m4c0/?igshid=wogzsdv3uycr

Great Jones Street, midnight #streetphoto_bw #streetphotographer #streetphotography #streetphoto #nightphotography #onthestreet #documentaryphotography #nyc #manhattan #noho #greatjonesstreet (at New York, New York)

On winning the Great Jones Street contest for 5 min micro fiction

So excited to have won the Great Jones Street Five minute flash fiction contest last week!

 flashfictionista:

by Kathryn Kettle

The last days of the karakuri man were more peopled than the hundreds that came before. His family came from all around the world, though he would rather they had not. He had been making toys for over seventy years, working through the sawdust cloud of his workshop. Pushing his foot up and down on the lathe. A thousand automata. Men dancing with fat ladies, a child wailing for its toy, a lover escaping from his mistress’ window. Each handcrafted drama for no one but himself. Long ago people had stopped buying his toys, but still he made them. And how they would move with the wind, the slightest tap and his shelves would come to life. The walls carried the scent of sandalwood and soft paint brushes, white spirit.

His daughter held his hand. His son, grandson, their children. They had no need of his creations, the phone in the pocket of his great niece distracted her from the wonder of his passing. Her mother moistened his lips, when a man in the pristine black suit knocked, bowed. Not family. A dozen other black suited men followed him bringing a large wooden crate, about the size of an old television, which they placed at the foot of the bed. Carefully negotiating the automaton inside into the stifling air. The doll was no bigger than his grand-niece’s head. The suited man wound the clicking mechanism, stretched the string on the bow the doll held. In no time the little archer nodded its serene head, pulled a minuscule arrow from the sheath, loaded the string, slid his smiling head up and with his two-hundred year old smile fired the little bow with as life-like a move as could ever be seen. The metal tinkled on the floor and the grand-niece wondered, her phone still in her lap. Unaided by man, arrow after arrow fired into the air until finally all was quiet. Her great uncle’s folded features were at rest, paint still at his fingertips.

As the suited men bowed, packed up the doll and, his grand-niece picked up a toy from the shelf, a small girl who looked as like her as any creation, dancing to music no one could hear.

#blackandwhitephoto #greatjones #greatjonesstreet #lafayettestreet #soho #couple #on #motorcycle #motobike #citysights #cityviews www.pinkFROGnyc.com #pinkfrognyc #art #industrialdesign #tshirt #toddler #youth #babyonesie #kiddresses handmade #tote tie apron print framed #love #passion #wedesign #weprint #wearenewyork #wearepinkfrog #madeinnyc #travel #tourist #nyctour (at Soho, Lower East Manhattan, New York City)

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The love of minds should last beyond lives. ― Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

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I Wish I Was a Real Person is a portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The title is a play on the Basquiat quote “I’m Not a Real Person. I’m a Legend”. When I learned of the immense success and influence he had during his short life, I was baffled as to why he wasn’t more known in mainstream circles. He is both a legend AND a real person in art history yet most people outside of creative circles know the names Picasso, Warhol or Van Gogh, but if asked to name a successful Black artist who wasn’t an actor or musician they would be at a loss. This seems to be a common trend with Black “fine artists” both past and present. While this is a portrait of Basquiat, it represents all Black artists whose narratives and identities have been obscured from art history and contemporary art culture. #painting #portrait #artist #basquiat #jeanmichelbasquiat #greatjonesstreet #keepcreatingnscad #samo #legend #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #canadianartist #bermudianartist #blackartist #27club #identity #blackman #imnotarealpersonimalegend #fineartist #arthistory #blackartmatters (at Halifax, Nova Scotia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBESIzwnCXX/?igshid=1uw97sbq9eymm

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This beautiful Beaux Arts firehouse is a double landmark! (photo via @nyhistory)⠀ .⠀ Built in 1898-1899, the W. B. Chambers and Ernest Flagg-designed firehouse is a classic Beaux-Arts structure. The facade of red brick and limestone is dominated by a monumental arch. Engine Co. 33 (42 Great Jones Street), which has been housed here since its completion, was initially established in November of 1865 at 220 Mercer Street. This building was designed to include the fire chief's “night headquarters” and in June 1899 Chief Edward F. Crocker moved in. His office was said to have "usual paintings, statuary, and hunting accoutrements."⠀ .⠀ On March 25, 1911, Engine Co. 33 was one of the first responders to the nearby Triangle Factory fire. Chief Crocker retired five weeks after the fire after 27 years with the FDNY, citing his wish "to prevent, instead of fight fires. In 2001, 10 of the 14 firemen from Engine 33 that responded to the WTC never returned home. A plaque on the facade honors them.⠀ .⠀ This building also has the distinction of being double landmarked, first as an individual landmark in 1968 and again as part of the NoHo Historic District Extension in 2008.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ 📸: Robert L. Bracklow⠀ 1901⠀ via @nyhistory⠀ #urbanarchive #nychistory #NoHo #greatjonesstreet #engine33 #ernestflagg #beauxarts #arches #firehouse #firestation #FDNY #fireequipment #snow #WTC #triangefire #landmark #historicpreservation #stillstanding⠀ Join Urban Archive 📱 [link in bio]

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42 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10003

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I wish I was a real person #painting #process #portrait #artist #basquiat #jeanmichelbasquiat #greatjonesstreet #keepcreatingnscad #samo #legend #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #canadianartist #bermudianartist #blackartist #27club #artpaysme #erasure #arthistory (at Halifax, Nova Scotia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAkV3JqnShR/?igshid=1pp7of77jpmb1

You know where you are in New York. You're in New York. It's New York. This fact is inescapable. In other places I didn't always know where I was.

Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street