\nOPENED WED APRIL 11, 2018
\nON VIEW \/ THRU . . MON APRIL 30, 2018<\/strong>
\n99 CENTS FINE ART, 167 CANAL ST., CHINATOWN NYC 10013
\nHRS: SAT & SUN \/ 12-6 PM or by appointment<\/p>\n
note: the original FDR MURAL \/ section is VISIBLE 24\/7 . . via the storefront & a long, side street window \/ on ELIZABETH St.<\/p>\n
PIX FROM THE OPENING \/ WED APRIL 11, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n 2 original panels, (from a heavy metal fence – that ran around the FDR Drive). can’t help but also note: how those ‘KEITH HARING-FDR 1984’ colors \/ are so in fashion. right now. PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" the 3 Rs: ROUGH, RAW & RELEVANT ‘KEITH HARING – FDR 1984’ OPENED WED APRIL 11, 2018 ON VIEW \/ THRU . . MON APRIL 30, 2018 99 CENTS FINE ART, 167 CANAL ST., CHINATOWN NYC 10013 HRS: SAT & SUN \/ 12-6 PM or by appointment note: the original FDR MURAL \/ section is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36754"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36798,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36754\/revisions\/36798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/K-HARING-1.gif\")
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\nCHINATOWN TAKE-OVER \/ rough & raw & reverent \/ totally in the street art spirit of the 80s.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nan old gritty storefront . . works its magic.
\nNYC street art art history pop-up \/ at its best.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthough a ‘digital’ screen looping in the window . . was a great touch \/ running through great archival images,
\nthat helped bring the history alive \/ and nail all the right – references. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe 3 Rs: ROUGH, RAW & RELEVANT
\ninside, the rawness of the venue – added to the impact of the historic work.
\nthere’s nothing that beats seeing the original, even if just a section.<\/p>\n
\nKEITH HARING, ‘Untitled (FDR NY) #3 & #4’, spray enamel paint on metal, 48 x 204 x 3-1\/4 in. <\/p>\n
\nred, black. white.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthis was the 80s. there was no social media. there were no cellphones.
\nthis was how you communicated, if you really felt compelled to say . . something.
\nthough you might call Keith Haring the godfather of . . the modern emoji.
\nhis images were bold, simple. animated even though standing still \/ graphic.
\nbut they touched a common nerve.
\nthey really set the city . . on fire.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nseeing the rawness of the big steel fence that ran along the FDR, was stunning.
\nstunning, like a bee sting.
\nthe images just rolled off his tongue onto the gritty belly of the inner city. via spray paint.
\nit also made you think about the concrete ‘bruteness’ of communication, & the collective \/ ‘illegal’ street art scene back then, as opposed to the clean-cut \/ non-stop millennial digital stream that flows incessantly online.
\nnow.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe pop-up exhibit: it def, stopped people in their tracks, for whatever reason.
\nmeaning: for many reasons.
\nit was an experience \/ not just a ‘4 white walls’ viewing.
\nit was immediate. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\njust around the corner, where the side wall meets the end of the room, was a small array of never-before-seen archival photos by ERIC KROLL.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nrare black & white photos of HARING & ‘FDR – 1984’ . . .
\nbringing spiritual depth to the pop-up exhibit, in the best of ways. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthen down the other side was a counter with books, that you could flip through \/ the neon nightlights & bustle of Chinatown, coming through. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nin the early 80s, we used to go knife off these chalk pieces and sell them to collectors, who showed up at the openings. we got pretty good money, too.
\nyou could almost pay a whole year’s rent, with one.
\nthe way the Lower East Side was back then, before the real estate got crazy.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthough things started getting dicey, too. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nbut that’s how it was.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\none of his most iconic images. A true grand-pappy of the emoji.
\nat his later openings, he had stickers of this image, about 3 x 4 ins. \/ printed on huge rolls, and he used to hand them out.
\nsomeone else – can write the paper on what the seemingly simple image – means.
\nI just want to say: SWIZZ BEATZ too bad, you missed out, on some real juice.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nno words.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nyou can see the mural through the side window on Elizabeth \/ 24\/7.
\npretty much just<\/strong> how you walked or drove by the work, integrated into the city, back in the day – when it was done.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nEBONY HAYES, the Martos Gallery director, at center.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJOSE MARTOS, his wife, artist SERVANE MARY, and filmmaker\/writer VERONICA GONZALEZ PENIA.
\nMartos was the guy with the vision, who put up this pop-up \/ with all 3 Rs intact. ROUGH, RAW, REVERENT.
\nto which you can add an A+ . . for archival, informative, and moving.
\nhis main gallery is just around the corner on Elizabeth.
\nit’s also a beautiful space, with another profound \/ historic show up now, too.
\nthe also dead & departed, but still haunting, still powerful: DAN ASHER. don’t miss it.
\nthru April 22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nbut the art lives on.
\nDANNY CASTENDA, who runs workshops for ‘kids of color’, through an artist collective called, MINORITY REPORT, located at the Canal St. Market, just down the street.
\n with him, with actress ALINA CARSON.
\nsee: https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/qvw7qm\/the-nyc-collective-providing-free-art-workshops-to-kids-of-colorMINORITY REPORT NYC<\/a><\/p>\n