Sculpture around NYC

Frommer's website has info about free outdoor sculpture viewing in and around New York City.

Besides obvious scupltures such as the Statue of Liberty:

There are whimsical, lifelike ones such as Taxi! by J. Seward Johnson (Park Ave. at 47th St.) and Commuters by George Segal (Port Authority Bus Terminal, 42nd St. & 8th Ave.). Kids get a kick out of Alice in Wonderland by Jose de Creeft (Central Park, Conservatory Water, near E. 72nd St.), Cat by Fernando Brotero (Park Ave. at 79th St.), and, of course, the Lions by Edward Clark Potter (New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. at 42nd St.)

And for art outside Manhattan they suggest the Noguchi Museum & Garden (picture above).

Read the full story: Expose Yourself to Art: Outdoor Sculpture In & Around New York City

Photo by George Hirose

From old flip-flops to art in Kenya

Global Post reports on recycled flip-flops turned into art in Kenya.

Old flip-flops wash up onto Kenya's beaches from all over the world. A company was formed to make this rubbish into saleable art like: "crazily striped rhinos, elephants and lions looking like mini psychedelic safaris."

Read the full story: Turning flip-flops into art

Second plastic-bag subway art installation

Back in April '08 we reported on New York street artist Joshua Allen Harris, who fashions used plastic bags into inflatable subway grate art. Harris' latest incarnations, that are larger than his earlier polar bears and giraffes, look like giant fantasy monsters.

Watch the report below from New York Magazine.

Art created with plastic bags

Plastic bags are the scourge of the environment.

They are hard to avoid in every day life and even harder when traveling, ask Senator Barack Obama. (We endorsed Hillary remember?)

So whenever a clever way of reusing or recycling plastic bags comes along, we like it.

One doesn't usually think of art when thinking about plastic bags, but that is what one innovative art student did.

Joshua Allen Harris (left in picture) created art using plastic bags and air pushed out through the New York City subway grating.

Some of his creations include the Air Bear:


the Air Zoo:


and the Air Giraffe:


According to the Associated Press, these creations are usually installed in the Chelsea neighborhood near Mr. Harris' art school.

So now there's another thing to add to visitors' or curious environmentalists' lists of things-to-see-or-do in NYC.