Artist Josephine Meckseper Questions Modern Consumption With Two Massive Oil Pumps in Midtown Manhattan

Artist Josephine Meckseper Questions Modern Consumption With Two Massive Oil Pumps in Midtown Manhattan

If you pass through Midtown in the next couple of months, you may notice something that seems a bit out of place: a pair of 25-foot tall oil pumps. The new industrial structures are part of artist Josephine Meckseper's installation called the "Manhattan Oil Project," which consists of two monumental, kinectic sculptures that strike conversation about American business, wealth, and consumerism. The project is supported by The Shubert Organization, The Last Lot and is presented by Art Production Fund.
 

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Inhabitat’s Awesome Eco Art Picks from the SCOPE New York Art Fair

Inhabitat’s Awesome Eco Art Picks from the SCOPE New York Art Fair

This year's Armory Arts Week has just come to a close, and Inhabitat was on hand to check out all the art happenings and great galleries. Each year, galleries and artists from all over the world invade several venues in Manhattan, bringing the most innovative art to New Yorkers and visitors alike. We've rounded up some of our favorite artists who expertly use upcycled and natural materials in their work exhibited at the SCOPE New York art fair.
 

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Cycle Two of the Centre-Fuge Public Art Project is Now on View in the East Village!

Cycle Two of the Centre-Fuge Public Art Project is Now on View in the East Village!

The second gallery from the Centre-Fuge Public Art Project is now on view in the East Village! What was once a drab construction trailer on the corner of East 1st Street and 1st Avenue has been taken over by seven artists who busily painted, pasted, and sprayed their work onto the trailer this past weekend. The project attempts to re-beautify the neighborhood and encourage a sense of community amidst the intrusive construction caused by preparations for the Second Avenue Subway line. Centre-fuge is organized by active culture-pushers Pebbles Russell and Jonathan Neville and is dedicated to long-time community artist and neighbor Mike Hamm.
 

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Artists Use Dirt, Dust and Grime as Their Medium for a New Exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design

Artists Use Dirt, Dust and Grime as Their Medium for a New Exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design

“Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design,” at the Museum of Art and Design in Columbus Circle explores the use of otherwise impermanent or ignored materials as a medium. The artists in the exhibition use dirt as paint, ash as molding material, and spun dust to create fragile sculptures.
 

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John Chamberlain’s Recycled Car Parts Sculptures Now On View at the Guggenheim Museum

John Chamberlain’s Recycled Car Parts Sculptures Now On View at the Guggenheim Museum

The Upper East Side’s Guggenheim Museum is honoring American Abstract Expressionist sculptor John Chamberlain with a retrospective exhibition until May 13th. Chamberlain, who recently passed away, had the innate ability to transform disused cars into sculptures that appear to be feather-light. The incredible exhibition highlights a comprehensive collection of the artist's work from the 1950s to his last works made in 2011.
 

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Frieze Art Fair Comes to New York With a Temporary Pavilion by SO-IL that Snakes Along the East River

Frieze Art Fair Comes to New York With a Temporary Pavilion by SO-IL that Snakes Along the East River

London’s Frieze Art Fair will be making its first presence State-side May 4-7, 2012 in New York City, bringing galleries from around the world to the area for a weekend. Like the British Fair, the New York edition will take place in an innovative temporary

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Andre Woolery Creates Massive Portraits of Black Icons From Thousands of Push Pins

Andre Woolery Creates Massive Portraits of Black Icons From Thousands of Push Pins

Creating art can sometimes be a painstaking process. Nobody knows this better than the Harlem based artist, Andre Woolery, whose poor fingertips push hard to make his amazing artwork. His incredible pieces, on view at the TriBeCa Frontrunner Gallery until the end of today in the aptly-named exhibit "Bruised Thumbs," are massive portraits of black icons such as President Obama and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z made entirely out of thumbtacks! Hundreds of thousands of tiny push pins are carefully pressed into enormous canvases to create powerful images of pain, process, and history.
 

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Charles Spurrier Creates Patterned 3D Paintings From Thousands of Pieces of Reclaimed Plastic

Charles Spurrier Creates Patterned 3D Paintings From Thousands of Pieces of Reclaimed Plastic

We often hear one man's trash is another man's treasure. With Charles Spurrier's eye-catching canvases, tiny pieces of recycled material are worked, painted, and pieced together into seamless designs that resemble anything but their original form. New York-based Spurrier collects almost any material imaginable for his artworks, including laundry detergent bottle caps, packing tape, milk crates, and plastic shelving. He cuts and shapes the found materials, then stacks them to create hypnotic patterns that resemble intricate quilts or tapestries that jump off the wall.
 

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300 New York City Water Towers to be Transformed into Art by the Likes of Thom Yorke and Jay-Z

300 New York City Water Towers to be Transformed into Art by the Likes of Thom Yorke and Jay-Z

Water tanks on the tops of buildings are a New York City icon, and starting in the spring of 2013, 300 of these tanks will be transformed into public art installations for all New Yorkers to enjoy from afar. The Water Tank Project has already enlisted big names like Jay-Z and Thom Yorke to design towers, and the group will also be holding open calls, asking talented artists from around the globe to submit their work to be immortalized in this unique public art project. All of the chosen artworks must aim to increase public awareness of the need for water conservation.
 

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Only Two More Days to See BIG’s Pulsing 10-Foot Tall LED Heart Sculpture in Times Square!

Only Two More Days to See BIG’s Pulsing 10-Foot Tall LED Heart Sculpture in Times Square!

You know how the saying goes: the more, the merrier! The Bjarke Ingels Group translated this idea into a physical reality for their latest project in New York City, a bright pink, 10-foot tall pulsing heart sculpture in the middle of Times Square New York. The hovering heart appears inside a cube of 400 clear acrylic rods that catch the brilliant LED lights of the beating heart. Activated by the warmth from visitors hands, the heart grows brighter as more people join together. If you want to make the heart glow, you better hurry, as the interactive installation ends this Wednesday, February 29.
 

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12 x 12 Exhibition Announces Winning Designers to Create Furniture from Demolished NYC Buildings

12 x 12 Exhibition Announces Winning Designers to Create Furniture from Demolished NYC Buildings

Sawkill Lumber has just announced the 12 designers who have been selected to participate in the first ever 12 x 12 design exhibition this spring. Debuting at Design Week in May this year, the exhibition will feature twelve unique pieces of furniture created

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Make Your Own Upcycled Art During an Interactive Vayable Tour

Make Your Own Upcycled Art During an Interactive Vayable Tour

New York is chock full of inspirational elements and objects, and artist Robert B. wants you to channel this into your very own recycled art. For his latest Vayable experience, Robert will take you and up to 19 of your closest friends on a journey around the

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Will Ryman’s Epic Installations are Made From Thousands of Bottle Caps, Paint Brushes & Nails

Will Ryman’s Epic Installations are Made From Thousands of Bottle Caps, Paint Brushes & Nails

Both locations of Chelsea’s Paul Kasmin Gallery are currently home to three oversized installations by NYC-based artist Will Ryman. Each room in the galleries is overtaken by a piece of epic proportions. Using paint brushes, bottle caps, rubber soles, and nails as his materials, Ryman creates surreal figures and environments using every day objects.
 

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Last Weekend to See the Beautiful Living Terrarium Exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden!

Last Weekend to See the Beautiful Living Terrarium Exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden!

The trees may be bare and the flowers aren't in bloom, but that doesn't mean Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a waste in the winter. Inside the Garden's Steinhardt Conservatory, already lush with greenery, a new terrarium exhibit brings new life with dozens of intricate miniature plant worlds. Created by Jennifer Williams, the Garden's curator of interior displays, the delicate terrariums are currently on display alongside artworks by the Brooklyn-based artist Jae Hi Ahn. Ahn uses simple artificial materials like plastic tubes and wires to build flowing installations that evoke organic forms and plants, which pay tribute to the natural world encapsulated in the terrariums. The exhibit ends this Sunday, February 26, so don't miss it!
 

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Fashion Designer Joann Berman Creates Trippy 3D Furniture from Vintage Sofas in Queens

Fashion Designer Joann Berman Creates Trippy 3D Furniture from Vintage Sofas in Queens

Native New Yorker Joann Berman has dressed the likes of Michael Jackson, Diddy, Salt-n-Pepa and Jodeci, but now she's focusing on a client that's a little bit closer to home - your home, that is. The fashion designer's trippy aesthetic and talent for transforming old into new earned her the moniker "the reigning queen of reconstruction," and now she has turned her sights to furniture design with a bevy of bespoke chaises, couches and sidechairs in retina-searing hues. Screened with 3D images that will have you wondering exactly what kind of mushrooms were in your marsala, the custom-made line is made of upcycled vintage furniture that is printed in Long Island City, Queens. We recently visited JoJo at her Bushwick, Brooklyn studios to find out more about these one-of-a-kind treasures.
 

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Artist Gwyneth Leech Draws on 800 Used Coffee Cups to Create a Playful Hanging Art Installation

Artist Gwyneth Leech Draws on 800 Used Coffee Cups to Create a Playful Hanging Art Installation

Each day, New Yorkers consume massive amounts of coffee, toted in disposable paper cups -- and each day for the past few months, one artist has been transforming those cups into art. For five days a week since last September, Gwyneth Leech has been busily hand drawing on her used cups which she collected over the last several years. Sitting in the glass prow at the busy Flatiron Building, Leech has created both a performance and recycle-art installation for the public to enjoy as they make their way to work. More than 800 cups showcase her drawings ranging from playful colored dots to detailed city scenes.
 

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Architects Reimagine the American Suburb for MoMA’s ‘Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream’ Exhibit

Architects Reimagine the American Suburb for MoMA’s ‘Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream’ Exhibit

The Museum of Modern Art’s new exhibit, “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream,” addresses our nation’s recent challenge of foreclosed homes in our downtrodden economy. The exhibition showcases five architectural teams' solutions to five site-specific neighborhoods across the country which have been greatly affected by foreclosure. Inhabitat was on hand for the press preview to examine the advantages of these proposed solutions which combine affordable housing, community, home ownership, and sustainability. The sites were chosen for their foreclosure rates and amount of publicly held land available, and they were redesigned with regards to The Buell Hypothesis, which seeks to transform the design of suburban America.
 

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HWKN’s Spiky-Armed Bright Blue “Wendy” Wins the 2012 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program

HWKN’s Spiky-Armed Bright Blue “Wendy” Wins the 2012 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program

Every year, we anxiously await the announcement of the winner of MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (YAP) -- the news means that cutting edge summer fun is just around the corner! This year's winning pavilion has just been revealed, and we are thrilled to announce that once again, a local firm has taken the top prize. HWKN created a zany platform and pavilion called Wendy that combines water canons, air cleaning capabilities, and a massively cool, spiky-armed design. During its tenure at the courtyard, this incredible project will remove emissions equivalent to taking 260 cars off the road and will no doubt make the 13th Warm-Up music series one of the best yet.
 

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Floating Harvest Dome Made of Old Umbrellas Set to Take Second Sail Down the Hudson River

Floating Harvest Dome Made of Old Umbrellas Set to Take Second Sail Down the Hudson River

A few months ago, we reported the tragic crashing of a recycled art installation called Harvest Dome into Rikers Island. We have finally heard the great news that reconstruction is in the works and soon the amazing floating artwork made of discarded umbrellas

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David Stark’s Pop-Up Wood Shop Offers Sustainable Wooden Valentines and More!

David Stark’s Pop-Up Wood Shop Offers Sustainable Wooden Valentines and More!

Shopping in New York is an art in and of itself. Designer David Stark's newest pop-up store is part gallery, part studio, filled with his hand crafted wooden treats just in time for Valentine's Day. For the next three weeks, Nina Freudenberger has handed over her posh Nolita shop, Haus Interior to her friend Stark who has packed it to the brim with unique gifts, toys, home accessories, and more, many of which are made from leftover wood from his design studio. There is something for everyone in this fun little Wood Shop, but you better hurry as these timber trinkets are flying off the shelves!
 

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Centre-Fuge Transforms a Construction Trailer into a Mural-Covered LES Public Gallery

Centre-Fuge Transforms a Construction Trailer into a Mural-Covered LES Public Gallery

With construction serving as an ongoing disturbance to many New Yorkers, the Centre-Fuge Public Art Project has found a way to provide a unique twist on the otherwise bothersome ordeal. A drab grey trailer on East 1st Street is being transformed into raw canvas where a rotating collection of artists will have the opportunity to display their work. The artwork will change every two months, and the year-long project will culminate in a collaborative mural that will be unveiled with the opening of the new Second Avenue subway line. Inhabitat visited the Lower East Side to find out how the first group of artists have transformed the trailer, adding even more spark to the already happening neighborhood.
 

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MoMA PS1 Unveils New Courtyard Performance Dome For Winter Events

MoMA PS1 Unveils New Courtyard Performance Dome For Winter Events

This week, MoMA PS1 unveiled a winter weather friendly performance dome in their iconic courtyard. Known as one of the hottest spots for summer music parties and avant-garde installations, the PS1 courtyard will spend the next few months showcasing a series

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The Outsider Art Fair Brings Upcycled Artworks to New York City

The Outsider Art Fair Brings Upcycled Artworks to New York City

This past weekend, the 20th annual Outsider Art Fair brought art galleries from around the world to Midtown. Highlighting artists with no formal training, the booths celebrated artists who are outside of the cultural main stream. Inhabitat was on hand to enjoy the unique artworks, with many of our favorites made with sustainable and recycled materials! Red Truck Gallery’s Andres Basurto makes beautiful glass skull sculptures entirely from broken bottles. Using specific beer bottles, he assembles the evidence of a night of drinking into the symbol of macabre, a skull.
 

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The Greatest Grid Exhibit Showcases Manhattan’s Transformation From Farmland to City Streetscape

The Greatest Grid Exhibit Showcases Manhattan’s Transformation From Farmland to City Streetscape

The Museum of the City of New York’s latest exhibition celebrates Manhattan’s historic transformation from farmland into the highly organized street system it is today. “The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011,” takes visitors on the journey from the former rocky terrain to our current city streets. Through extensive historical maps, photographs, and paintings, the story of how Manhattan came to be comes alive before your eyes.
 

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Ground Up Designers Create Anti-Gun Violence Public Art Installation for Crow Hill Community Garden

Ground Up Designers Create Anti-Gun Violence Public Art Installation for Crow Hill Community Garden

The Ground Up Designers have an innovative proposal for the Crow Hill Community Garden. Capped by a canopy of colored plastic cuffs that donors can buy at local businesses, the public art garden will help the community join together and bring awareness to

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