{"id":6111,"date":"2011-06-24T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2011-06-24T21:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T02:55:47","slug":"olek-hits-northside-splat-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/06\/24\/olek-hits-northside-splat-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"~OLEK HITS NORTHSIDE . . . SPLAT,  BABY !!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OR:  ABE LINCOLN, Jr VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING &#8211; move over.<br \/>\n . . . AND, LET OLEK TAKE OVER !! <\/p>\n<p> OR: CREST FEST VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING &#8211; TAKE ONE: OLEK.<br \/>\n and . . . CREST WINS.<\/p>\n<p>in fact .  .  .<br \/>\nCREST FEST VS. BASEL ART FAIR &#8211; TAKE ONE: OLEK CROCHET-TAGS A SHOPPING CART.<br \/>\nduh. CREST WINS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/OLEK-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/OLEK-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OLEK-#-1\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/OLEK-1.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/OLEK-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CREST FEST HAS A SUPER TIGHT &#8211; OLEK STREET CROCHET &#8211; SHOPPING CART &#8211; commissioned, I guess.<br \/>\nbicycle-locked to a traffic meter right in front of their CREST FEST headquarters\/hardware store !!<br \/>\nCREST HARDWARD &#8211; 588 METROPOLITAN AVE &#8211; BTWN UNION &#038; LORIMER &#8211; ON THE NORTHSIDE. WILLIAMSBURG.<br \/>\nBROOKLYN.<br \/>\nNEW YORK FRIGGIN&#8217; CITY<\/p>\n<p> . . . yep.<br \/>\nit seems Williamsburg had got so big,its own little nation. it had to split into two: NORTHSIDE VS. SOUTHSIDE.<br \/>\nit been a long time acomin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Olek-#-2\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-2.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>candy-wrapper colored camo, pink &#038; green and yellow and purple, wow how&#8217;d he, as in ANDY WARHOL !! &#8211;  know those would be the synthetic yarn colors of choice of the 2011 decade . .  . florescent synthetic &#8211; acrylic fab.<br \/>\nI guess everybody is crocheting baby blankets, that can&#8217;t be real wool &#8211; yo, allergies &#8211; or something .  .  . <\/p>\n<p>IN BRIEF: ANDY WARHOL AND HIS COTTON -CANDY COLORED &#8211; late 1980s &#8211; CAMOUFLAGE SCREEN PRINTS &#8211; MOVE OVER . . .<br \/>\nsee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephklevenefineartltd.com\/NewSite\/Camo.htm\">WARHOL CAMO PRINTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Olek-#-3\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-3.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>yeah, but what REALLY sets it apart &#8211; is it&#8217;s message YO:  DON&#8217;T STEAL FROM THE PUBLIC.<\/p>\n<p>amen. dedicated to all the aunt piggys and uncle banksys and corporate charlies &#8211; out there. <\/p>\n<p>p.s. its damn hard, technically, to &#8216;write&#8217; in crochet &#8211; esp free form !!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Olek-#-4\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-4.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the view from the other side.<br \/>\nsooooo dimensional. cool, or what ?<br \/>\ndefine: almost a stationary un-human street performance &#8211; by an object ?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Olek-#-5\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-5.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Olek-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>whoa. check out the bottom  . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/olek-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/olek-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"olek-#-6\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/olek-6.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/olek-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CREST FEST PRESENTS OLEK &#8211;  VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING. and VS. BASEL.<br \/>\nCREST FEST &#8211; WINS !!<\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/cresthardwareartshow.com\/wordpress\/\">CREST HARDWARE SHOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALL PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFTERWORD:<\/strong><br \/>\nyep, looks like I was right, in my dreams, BASEL ART FAIR 2011 was, almost &#8211;  ALL about Warhol !!<br \/>\nand yo, JEFF KOONS, ANDY WARHOL, and PICASSO ? do  NOT constitute, or define the word: <em>contemporary<\/em> art ?<br \/>\nunless you realize &#8216;contemporary&#8217;  is gonna become like &#8216;modern&#8217;, a definition of a past era, (modern) the 50s, (contemporary) the 60s, the 80s ? and, <em>not<\/em> what&#8217;s happening now. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SUB-JP-VOGEL-popup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SUB-JP-VOGEL-popup.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SUB-JP-VOGEL-popup\" width=\"650\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SUB-JP-VOGEL-popup.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/SUB-JP-VOGEL-popup-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nANDY WARHOL&#8217;S 1964 &#8211; !! &#8211; CAMPBELL&#8217;S CARTOONS at ART BASEL 2011.<br \/>\nPHOTO: ARND WIEGMANN\/REUTERS\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/17\/arts\/design\/art-basel-fair-shares-much-with-venice-biennale.html\">COURTESY: THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>wow. the silver-wrapped installation &#8211; almost photographs &#8211; like a JACK GOLDSTEIN &#8216;LIGHTNING &#8216; PAINTING.<\/p>\n<p>see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/17\/arts\/design\/art-basel-fair-shares-much-with-venice-biennale.html\">CAROL VOGEL\/ART BASEL\/NEW YORK TIMES &#8211; JUNE 17, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OR: ABE LINCOLN, Jr VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING &#8211; move over. . . . AND, LET OLEK TAKE OVER !! OR: CREST FEST VS. SHITTY ABSTRACT PAINTING &#8211; TAKE ONE: OLEK. and . . . CREST WINS. in fact . . . CREST FEST VS. BASEL ART FAIR &#8211; TAKE ONE: OLEK CROCHET-TAGS A SHOPPING [&hellip;]<\/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\/6111"}],"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=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}