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LOVE TV, by Australian artist Rebecca McIntosh and art producer Victoria Johnstone, blended visual art, performance art and a talk show to invite New Yorkers to share their stories of life and love in New York City. LOVE TV explored the identity of people, places and diversity through the universal subject of love. The program followed artist Rebecca McIntosh, who posed as goddess Aphrodite, as she spoke with celebrities, musicians, historians, artists, local heroes and the public in her hot pink TV-shaped mobile studio. The performance encouraged creative conversation and provided the community with a chance to reclaim public space.
By partnering with artists like Rebecca McIntosh, DOT’s Urban Art Program aimed to enhance and enrich the public’s experience at Summer Streets, a three day closure of Park Avenue for recreation held on Saturdays in August. The LOVE TV performances took place at Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street. Performances were also held as part of Weekend Walks in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Summer Streets
LOVE TV by Rebecca McIntosh and Victoria Johnstone
Foley Square and Centre Street at Pearl Street, Manhattan
“As we look ahead to a more prosperous future, [For Closure is] a beacon of hope constructed from the access point of homes lost: the front door.” –artist Gabriela Salazar
Assembled from locally salvaged doors, “For Closure” provides a sense of closure for those still reeling from the recent collapse of our unstable financial structure based on an inflated housing market. The playful concept of a house of cards acts as a monument to the rebuilding of our economy and our homes.
Gabriela Salazar’s work concerns our relationships with the constructed environment engaging architecture, text, sculpture, and drawing. This is Salazar’s second iteration of “For Closure.” It is also the second NYCDOT Urban Art installation programmed at West Farms Plaza which is a designated priority site for public art.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
For Closure by Gabriela Salazar
Presented with Bronx River Art Center
East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, Bronx
With the Artervention 69 Meters, Magda Sayeg transformed 69 average parking meters into a beautiful work of art by wrapping each in a knitted creation. Montague Street Business Improvement District, engaged work with Knitta Please, and 50 volunteers to fabricate the yarn cozies for Montague Street in Brooklyn. Each sleeve took about 2-3 hours to make and 15 minutes to install. By adding interest to the street, the Montague Street BID supported local merchants.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Artervention
69 Meters by Magda Sayeg
Presented with Montague Business Improvement District
Montague Street, Brooklyn
“Undulating planes of pattern and color that drift back and forth creating a syncopated rhythm with the traffic rushing by.”
Artist Almond Zigmund’s work strives to sharpen our perceptions of space while exploring the nature of opposition. Combining crisp geometry, vivid color, and intricate patterns, her drawings, sculptures, and installations reference aspects of the built environment.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Planes A-Way by Almond Zigmund
Presented with New York Cares
21st Williamsburg St W between Kent and Flushing Aves, Brooklyn
With the help of NYCDOT’s Roadway Repair & Maintenance and Asphalt Plant Divisions, artist Paula Meijerink creatively celebrates the city’s most ubiquitous surface. In re-imagining the application of asphalt Paula Meijerink provided a new framework for viewers to think to think of city streets and their basic material makeup.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Tattoo Dragon by Paula Meijerink
Presented with Wanted Landscape LLC
Prospect Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
In 2008 NYCDOT unveiled the first project of its temporary art program through the collaborative efforts of the DUMBO Business Improvement District, artist Tattfoo Tan and more than 50 local schoolchildren. The Malaysian-born artist enlisted in the help of the children to paint hundreds of colorful panels using specialized paints matched to the colors of fruits and vegetables. The tapestry of color – 8 feet high and 70 feet long – beautified a corrugated metal fence alongside a storage yard beneath the Manhattan Bridge.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Nature Matching Systems by Tattfoo Tan
Presented with DUMBO Business Improvement District
Front and Adams Streets, Brooklyn
19 Days to #25MPH: "People with disabilities, seniors who have different mobility problems, as well as blind people, people who use walkers, wheelchairs - we all need more time to cross the street. If NYC drivers slow down, they could save a person's life." ~ Luda, Disabled in Action, Brooklyn +Disabled In Action of Metropolitan New York (originally posted 10/20/14)
"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
For more than 15 years, Staten Island based artist, Victoria Munro has exhibited her photographic and sculptural works internationally, working between Auckland, New Zealand and the U.S. In the installation called Container Series, Munro focuses intently on color bringing vibrant colors to the Grand Staircase Plaza at Staten Island’s St. George Ferry Terminal.
The aluminum strips, affixed securely to the vertical elevations of the stairs leading up to the Plaza, are meant to mirror the shapes and colors of the shipping containers that pass through the NY waterways. Munro believes color is inextricably linked to structures and materials and her work seeks to highlight this relationship. Container Series broadens this investigation to include an exploration of geometric form and function. The artist goes on to describe that “the context and histories of transporting cargo create shifting meaning in the work, suggesting models of other ways of being, cultural blending, and future possibilities and destinations, which are yet to be discovered.”
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Container Series by Victoria Munro
Presented with Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
Grand Staircase Plaza, St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island
Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, takes knitting out of the home and onto the streets. In Plan Ahead, she intricately weaves a playful message to pedestrians, bikers, and drivers onto an ordinary fence using colorful yarn. The message – to plan ahead – is reinforced by the artist’s choice to shrink the last to letters of the phrase and bend them vertically into only the small bit of space left over at the end of the installation, as if writing in a notebook and running out of space. Plan Ahead directs viewers' attention to Brooklyn's waterfront environment and examines the occasionally contentious, often harmonious relationship between nature and constructed space.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Plan Ahead by Magda Sayeg
Presented with North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition and Open Space Alliance
Kent Avenue between South 5th St and South 6th St, Brooklyn
“As we look ahead to a more prosperous future, [For Closure is] a beacon of hope constructed from the access point of homes lost: the front door.” –artist Gabriela Salazar
Assembled from locally salvaged doors, “For Closure” provides a sense of closure for those still reeling from the recent collapse of our unstable financial structure based on an inflated housing market. The playful concept of a house of cards acts as a monument to the rebuilding of our economy and our homes.
Gabriela Salazar’s work concerns our relationships with the constructed environment engaging architecture, text, sculpture, and drawing. This is Salazar’s second iteration of “For Closure.” It is also the second NYCDOT Urban Art installation programmed at West Farms Plaza which is a designated priority site for public art.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
For Closure by Gabriela Salazar
Presented with Bronx River Art Center
East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, Bronx
Mall-terations is a temporary art installation created to activate three pedestrian malls and celebrate the history of immigration on the Lower East Side. It also honored the co-naming of Allen Street as the Avenue of the Immigrants. Elements of the installation include five colorful benches that turn on wheels like compasses, neighborhood maps and historical timelines about immigration to both the Lower East Side and Chinatown along with the development of the Allen Street Corridor.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Mall-terations by Carolina Cisneros, Marcelo Ertorteguy, Mateo Pinto and Sara Valente
Presented with Hester Street Collaborative
Allen Street between Houston and Delancey Streets, Manhattan
“As we look ahead to a more prosperous future, [For Closure is] a beacon of hope constructed from the access point of homes lost: the front door.” –artist Gabriela Salazar
Assembled from locally salvaged doors, “For Closure” provides a sense of closure for those still reeling from the recent collapse of our unstable financial structure based on an inflated housing market. The playful concept of a house of cards acts as a monument to the rebuilding of our economy and our homes.
Gabriela Salazar’s work concerns our relationships with the constructed environment engaging architecture, text, sculpture, and drawing. This is Salazar’s second iteration of “For Closure.” It is also the second NYCDOT Urban Art installation programmed at West Farms Plaza which is a designated priority site for public art.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Arterventions
For Closure by Gabriela Salazar
Presented with Bronx River Art Center
East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, Bronx
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
People and birds were invited to relax with one another in the art installation entitled Welcomed Guests. Ten functional seats, with attached birdhouses, were placed in Red Hook by artist Atom Cianfarani. He used locally found materials, such as burgundy barrels and recycled plastic lunch trays, to create the unique birdhouses. The North Fork Vineyard and Winery provided the wine barrels and Added Value provided access to water via the Red Hook Community Farm. The artwork transformed the public space into a seating area between IKEA, the community farm, and a local park.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Welcomed Guests by Atom Cianfarani
Presented with Lower East Side Ecology Center and Added Value
Columbia Street and Halleck Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
Lincoln Road Serape is a 70-foot weaving of plastic ribbons installed on a chain link fence that creates a colorful swathe connecting two neighborhoods surrounding the Lincoln Road footbridge. The installation is based on the diamond shapes and patterns woven by Navajo craftspeople.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Lincoln Road Serape by Katherine Daniels
Presented with LinRoFORMA
Lincoln Rd between Flatbush and Ocean Aves, Brooklyn
Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta, takes knitting out of the home and onto the streets. In Plan Ahead, she intricately weaves a playful message to pedestrians, bikers, and drivers onto an ordinary fence using colorful yarn. The message – to plan ahead – is reinforced by the artist’s choice to shrink the last to letters of the phrase and bend them vertically into only the small bit of space left over at the end of the installation, as if writing in a notebook and running out of space. Plan Ahead directs viewers' attention to Brooklyn's waterfront environment and examines the occasionally contentious, often harmonious relationship between nature and constructed space.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Plan Ahead by Magda Sayeg
Presented with North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition and Open Space Alliance
Kent Avenue between South 5th St and South 6th St, Brooklyn
Name: Washington [Heights] Bridge (initially called Harlem River Bridge)
Location: NYC (Manhattan to Bronx)
Carry: 6 road lanes with sidewalks
Type: Two-hinged steel arch with masonry approaches
Opened: 1888
Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage to the Battery Park Underpass in Manhattan.
Photo: NYC Department of Transportation / Alex Engel
"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
"With splashing brushes, for the city to bloom. And when it was done, for her kinfolk, signed – in green, the Mississippi flowed through Gotham."
Julia Whitney Barnes’ design of intertwining roots weaves in and out along a curved path leading to the Harlem River Drive. The barriers, that protect cyclists and pedestrians from vehicular traffic, measure approximately 2000 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Roots/Routes by Julia Whitney Barnes
Presented with New York Cares
West 155th St between Edgecombe Ave and Harlem River Dr, Manhattan
Artist Steed Taylor transformed the Naples Terrace Step Street with The Bridge &The Devil. Two unique designs run up and down the staircase creating two separate pedestrian experiences. The installation draws reference to the 17th century Kingsbridge and the Spuyten Duyvil Creek it once crossed. Steed reminds New Yorkers of the tumultuous relationship that once existed at this site between man and nature. Much like the intertwining design, the mural draws attention to man’s enduring desire to tame and mold New York City’s geography to suit one’s needs. In shedding light on old New York, Taylor hopes to educate those who use this step street on a daily basis with his historically-based, site-responsive mural.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
The Bridge & The Devil by Steed Taylor
Visual Aids for the Arts
Step Street, Naples Terrace between Broadway and Goodwin Terrace, Bronx, NY
The new bridge, featuring steel pier columns and walls for the ramps, was constructed entirely in Camden, N.J. and delivered by barge, includes wider sidewalks and approaches, pedestrian safety fencing and ADA-compliant ramps for added safety and improved access. It opened in January 2012 and replaced a 1940s span.
Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays in the summer (the 2011 dates are August 6, 13 and 20) from 7:00 am - 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.
This event takes a valuable public space - our City's streets - and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.
Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia's Ciclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event will be part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings.
Visit nyc.gov/summerstreets for more information.
"Interlocking gears are a metaphor for the relationship between pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles, as the successful functioning of our transportation system relies on the predictable motion from each part, which in turn directly influences the motion of its immediate interlocking part."
Artist Eugenie Tung’s design of brightly colored spokes and gears rotate and turn as cyclists ride along this barrier site. Eugenie Tung worked alongside 200 volunteers to paint this mural measuring approximately 1400 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Barrier Beautification
Teeth and Grooves by Eugenie Tung
Presented with New York Cares
Flushing Ave between Williamsburg St West and Washington St, Brooklyn