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I Heart Art – The Best NYC Street Art for Your Valentines Pic

What’s a holiday without a gram-able pic these days, right?  Want to know where to find the best Valentine’s backdrops in New York City?  If so, you’ve come to the right place.  This heart and love themed list of NYC street art will have you falling in love with all the free public art around the city!  Tag me @stylishlystella if you happen to post one of these on social media!

Love Wall 

Location:  Landmark Diner 158 Grand st. off of Lafayette St. in SOHO

 

Flour Shop

Location  177 Lafayette St.  (right around the corner from the love wall featured above!)

 

 

LOVE Sculpture by Robert Indiana

Location:  1359 Ave Of The Americas by W 55th St.  (Midtown West)

Heart wall #lovewall

Location: There are several.  192 Mott St, Mott and Prince, Lasso Pizza, Lasso Kenmare st., Freeman’s alley (LES), St. Marks and 1st Ave. and others..

 

 

Baby, I’m Yours

Location: 173 7TH Ave. South, West Village at the Baby Brasa restaurant

 

Einstein i heart ny (for those of you in love with this city)

Location:  212 8th Ave

 

Flower entrance

Location: 100 E 13th St at the Cote shop

If you like this also click here for other NYC flowery facades!

 

Be Mine

Location: Mott and Prince

 

 photo from arts,timessquare.nyc

At the Crossroads (Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition)

Location:  1560 Broadway (Times Square)

 

Did I miss any Valentines themed street art?  What would you have added to the list?  I know, I didn’t venture outside of Manhattan’s borough for this list..  What’s your favorite?

For more blog posts on NYC street art click here.

To see my edited list of other favorite NYC street art, click here and download the new art pigeon app!

 

Portia Munson The Artist Who Displays Hoarded Collections As Art

Juliet LOVES pink.  So it is with great amusement and girly fun that she and I have explored a pink pop-up, and a pink restaurant in NYC. Recently, the Flag Art Foundation featured Portia Munson’s “Pink Project” and so off we went, (her dressed in pink of course) to explore and see it for ourselves.

The exhibit explored artworks that array ordinary objects within containers, a theme that artist, Portia Munson readily played with.  In the past, we had seen her pink objects exhibited in a glass coffin and also perfectly lined up on a pink table, OCD style.  This time though, her exhibitting format took over a room.  A pink bedroom!  Juliet could not have been more thrilled looking around at all the pink gloriousness.

She brought her Barbie doll (also dressed in pink for the occasion) and showed  her around.  Out loud, she dreamed of living there and said, “Mommy, I wanna live here.”  Here she is after I explained she couldn’t.

haha!  We stayed in this room, playing I spy for quite some time.  It was the girliest sensory overload one could imagine.  thousands of discarded pink objects ranging from toys, to fashions, to stuffed animals and shoes, filled every crevice, every corner.

It was truly amazing to see!  The canopy for this pink bedroom was made up of pink children’s onesies of all kinds which made me wonder how many items of pink clothing Juliet has gone through at the ripe old age of 5.

The artist actually sewed all of these clothes to create this tented effect.

From reading about Portia’s passion for pink, I understood that she was exploring the marketing of femininity and questioning how culturally loaded the color was.

Leaving the exhibit, I started questioning where the line between hoarding and collecting for art’s sake was drawn.

Check out her last NYC exhibit called, “The Garden” below.

 

What do you think?  Is this hoarding or art?