The “Fearless Girl” is a statue in New York City placed at the Financial District of Manhattan promoting female empowerment, such as women in leadership positions. However, on November 2, 2018, a bulletproof vest was placed on the statue by the organization known as “Change the Ref”. The organization was
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How does one draw a contrast between art and pornorgraphy? Art and crime? A New York artist prompted his city’s police to do just that when he had “150 people to lie naked in the middle of Times Square” (Ramirez) to pose for a photo. Spencer Tunick, aims to do
This video from the 1957 captures a major law enforcement victory: one of the most horrific criminals of the time finally got arrested. His name was George Metesky, and he had terrorized New York City for 16 long years. Metesky, better known as the Mad Bomber, managed to plant at
On the morning of August 7, 1974, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit balanced across a wire that was a quarter mile above the ground between the roofs of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Not only was this a dangerous and risky performance, but it was also highly
AIDS has killed over 39 million people and 36 million people are living with HIV today. Visual AIDS is the largest collection of artworks from artists that have HIV/AIDS. This organization, for 26 years, holds an annual “Day With(out) Art” and this year’s focus is called Radiant Presence that showcases
New York has always had a large artist community and a big part of this are the youths making extra money by performing in the Subway. Mayor Bill de Blasio recently decided that he wants the New York Police Commissioner William Bratton to make his next project to get rid
There has recently been a trend in videos of people playing out roles in public. A woman videoed herself walking around New York City and got cat called over 100 times wearing just jeans and a t-shirt. The video got thousands of views and brought out many opinions. This video
Although a bit older, the New York Magazine looked at graffiti pieces being vandalized by “The Splasher”. The article goes on to explore the possible identity of the vandal, and interviews artists who had their work splashed. Banksy’s work in New York was targeted as well, creating an outcry from
In 1970 a graffiti culture emerged in New York. Less than a decade later the cultural practice had become an urban fixture, public scourge, and (not least) a full-blown art movement which in its stylistic innovation rivaled anything in modern art history. The rapid evolution of graffiti art followed from