Posts Tagged ‘New York’
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Tags:art, exhibition, Moma, New York, Object Matter, para-photographer, Pop Art, Robert Heinecken, The Museum of Modern Art, traffic magazine
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Friday, June 13th, 2014
Tags:360°, bar, cocktail, High Line, hypnotic, le bain, lounge, meatpacking, New York, roof terrace, roof top terrace, Standard hotel, sunset, view
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Friday, June 13th, 2014



MORRISON HOTEL GALLERY
Morrison Hotel Gallery and Dream Downtown hotel in Soho present rotating exhibitions of fine art music photography. This space is a celebration of the greatest music photographers and the artists they captured through their lenses over the last sixty years. All of the limited edition, hand signed artwork is available for purchase.
Here some picture of Kurt Cobain signed by photographer Jesse Frohman
Photos report by Pascal GILLET
WWW.MORRISONHOTELGALLERY.COM
— Kurt Cobain, Standing with Evian Bottle
© JESSE FROHMAN, 1993
Shot before MTV Unplugged session with Nirvana at the Omni Hotel in NYC.
60×80, Black and White, Archival Digital Print, Limited Edition, Signed
— Kurt Cobain, Smoking B Pink
© JESSE FROHMAN, 1993
60×80, Color, Type: Archival Digital Print, Limited Edition, Signed
— Kurt Cobain, Looking Up
© JESSE FROHMAN
Black and White, Archival Digital Print, Limited Edition
Tags:artwork, exhibition, hotel, Jesse Frohman, kurt Kobain, limited edition, morrison hotel gallery, music photography, New York, nyc, Ph-D dream hotel, Soho, traffic magazine
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Thursday, June 12th, 2014


COMME DES GARCONS store in NY
At the first sight, a vast field of scaffoldings pipes on the frontage building for refurbishment! Who notices the beautiful store located in the trendy heart of the meatpacking district in New York… by luck, aficionados surf on familiar grounds and know exactly where they have to go, as the store is just amazing. It’s worth it!
Photos by Pascal GILLET
Tags:Comme des Garçons, Design, fashion, meatpacking, modern, New York, store
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

TAG OF THE DAY
Tag of the day, somewhere in New York… Sense of humour or reality, art form or intox, question or answer? The city of massive consumerism is full of tag messages sometimes cynical…
Photo by PASCAL GILLET
Tags:city, New York, tag of the day, Tags, traffic magazine
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
Tags:Architecture, graphic, lines, New York, New York City, nyc, skyscrappers, space, traffic magazine
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
Tags:Andy Wahrol, Claes Oldengurg, Jeff KOONS, Marisol Escobar, Matthew Barney, Moma, New York, Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, traffic magazine
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2014




THE ELM in Williamsburg
King & Grove (the lifestyle hotel brand) has partnered with Michelin-starred chef Paul Liebrandt, to open The Elm in Williamsburg, considered by many’s as one of the best new restaurants of 2013. If you go there, try the brunch and a glance at the swimming-pool during warmer days!
Photo by Pascal Gillet
THE ELM
160 North 12th Street
Brooklyn NY 11249
WWW.KINGANDGROVE.COM
Tags:brunch, fooding, king & grove, New York, Paul Liebrandt, the elm, traffic magazine, williamsburg
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014



MEATPACKING high line
Following the freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side… The High Line design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations (Project Lead), Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and planting designer Piet Oudolf.
Photo by Pascal Gillet
Tags:Diller Scofidio + Renfro, freight rail line, James Corner Field Operations, meatpacking, New York, Piet Oudolf, public space, The High Line, traffic magazine
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014




COMME DES GARCONS in meatpacking, NY
Stroll down to 22nd Street then pass through the huge pivoting door and jagged aluminum tunnel into the cavernous home of Comme Des Garçons…
Photo by Pascal Gillet
COMME DES GARCONS
520 W 22nd St
New York, NY 10011
WWW.COMME-DES-GARCONS.COM
Tags:cavernous home, Comme des Garçons, fashion, meatpacking, New York, store, traffic magazine, trendy
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
Tags:Architecture, Central Park, Manhattan, Moma, New York, sculpture garden, traffic magazine, Yoshio Taniguchi
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2014

PIN UP and SUPER HEROES
Impossible to escape Pin-Up and Superheroes iconic representations in America… movies, museums, tee-shirts, accessories or even in the street!
They’re everywhere! They pass through out the Pulp Culture of the years 1920th and emerged to the pantheon of the Pop Culture. Godlike, they reflect part of our history in the 20th century.
Here in the New York streets, near MOMA.
Photo by Pascal Gillet
Tags:America, comics, godlike, Moma, New York, pin up, super heroes, traffic magazine
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
Tags:5 Pointz, Banksy, Graffitis, New York, Queens, traffic magazine, USA
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
Tags:Brooklyn, chocolate, culinary, mast brothers chocolate, Michael Mast, New York, pleasure, rick Mast, traffic magazine
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Thursday, April 17th, 2014



MINI MALL MARKET in brooklyn
If you’re around, step in Mini Mall Market and go straight to the back!
Then, in front of your amazed eyes, expect a real surprise for those who are fan of big racing machine!
In fact this is not really my case, therefore taking time for a flash back memory on some of the most mythical films: Easy Rider, Back to the future, Batman or even K2000… I feel like i’m going to see Hooper’s shadow! Rest in peace Dennis.
Photo by Pascal Gillet
Mini-Mall Market
218 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tags:Back to the future, Batman, Brooklyn, David Hasselhoff, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, K2000, mini mall market, New York, nyc, racing machine, traffic magazine
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Thursday, April 17th, 2014



DI PALOS little italy
One hundred years old, DI PALO’S traditional italian grocery store, located in Little Italy, NY city.
Over there, it smells like in a real Italian. Once you’ve been patient enough for waiting your turn, you will be able to taste and choose some of the best amazing italian products ever, such delicious goat, sheep and cow cheeses (mozzarella, ricotta, pecorino…) Don’t forget amazing salumi, mortadella and prosciutto… for those who like it!
A tasty and friendly classic Little Italy experience !
Photo by Pascal Gillet
Di Palo’s
200 Grand St
New York, NY 10013
b/t Mulberry St & Mott St.
Tags:best italian, Di Palos, experience, fooding, grocery, italian food, little italy, New York, NY city, traffic magazine
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Tags:Comme des Garçons, DOVER STREET MARKET, jacquemus, New York, Pierre Mornet, Prada, Rei Kawakubo, shopping, Simone Rocha, traffic magazine
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Monday, December 23rd, 2013



Nicopanda Pop Up
In an act of holiday defiance, newly appointed Diesel art director Nicola Formichetti’s studio has been transformed into a Nicopanda pop up store open for the holiday season. Envisioned by Formichetti’s assistant Prince Franco, the shop merges downtown culture, fashion, and performance into a collaborative space inspired by Franco’s childhood trips to laser tag arenas. Nicopanda inspired graffiti illuminated by black lights envelop the entire studio, creating a neon haven for downtown culture that offsets the neutral area of Tribeca. Along with the newly designed holiday Nicopanda gear, visitors can pick up last minute gifts from downtown designers such as Forfex, Illesteva and Baron Von Fancy. Performances by musicians such as Ian Isiah and Princess Nokia (Wavy Spice) as well as an in house production studio available to shoppers are just two ways in which the Nicopanda team is turning an otherwise linear activity into an all-encompassing event.
Photo and report by Leila Samïi
Tags:baron von fancy, Diesel, forfex, ian isiah, illesteva, New York, Nicola Formichetti, nicopanda, nyc, prince franco, tribeca, wavy spice
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013




SEBASTIAN GROSS OSSA homeland
Recently, I visited my friend Sebastian Gross and his painting studio in Brooklyn to check out a serie he had been working on. Upon walking in, I was greeted by his cat and a glass of prosecco. I spoke to Ossa, regarding his number one influence, german artist Neo Rauch (whose work echoes industrial evolution in urban landscapes) as well as painting influences (deriving from Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism), style ranging whenever devised and felt necessary. Within his studio process, Ossa uses real time photographs taken on location, particularly of those in his life and scales them on his stretched canvas. He then creates a luminous atmosphere of great heights, improvised activities, industrial layouts, branding and advertisement overload (his signature is Anti-Gravity), various architectures, and Fifth-Element like vehicles, including flying FedEx automobiles and spaceships (for the thread of conversation regarding modern civilization).
— Born in Chile, Sebastian Gross Ossa now works and lives in the neighborhood of Williamsburg, located in Brooklyn, NY.
— He was previously represented by Pablo’s Birthday art gallery located in downtown Manhattan.
Words and report by Taylor Ghrist
WWW.GROSSOSSA.COM
Tags:art, Brooklyn, bushwick, Chile, Neo Rauch, New York, pablo's birthday, painting, sebastian gross osso, studio life, Taylor Ghrist, traffic magazine
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013


Yayoi Kusama New York exhibition: I Who Have Arrived in Heaven at David Zwirner gallery.
Following the success of installations at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art and The Tate Modern, Yayoi Kusama joins the David Zwirner gallery for her exhibit I Who Have Arrived in Heaven. The exhibit spans over all three of the gallery’s spaces and includes twenty-seven new large-scale paintings, two infinity rooms and a video installation entitled Manhattan Suicide Addict. From the biomorphic shapes presented in the paintings to the polka dot laden tentacle formations in the second infinity room, the exhibit functions as an animated playground in which the viewer can consider their own existence in relation to their surroundings. Transcending pop art and minimalism, Kusama’s frenetic work fulfills the question of life and death by means of alluding to autobiographical content and exploring ones place within a given cosmic realm.
Words and picture by LEILA SAMII
David Zwirner Gallery
525 W 19th St
New York, NY 10011
November 8 – December 21, 2013
WWW.DAVIDZWIRNER.COM
Tags:Art Exhibit, Chelsea, David Zwirner, gallery, I Who Have Arrived in Heaven, New York, traffic magazine, Yayoi Kusama
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Tuesday, November 5th, 2013





BG BOOM Dusan Reljin — Fashion photographer Dusan Reljin fuses past and present in his latest project, BG BOOM-Dusan Reljin, on display at Milk Gallery. The exhibit harmonizes two sides of Reljin’s life, that of a New York fashion photographer and his upbringing in Serbia, melding them equally into a series of provocative photographs. Each photograph functioning as a collage of its own, the numbered series layers neon images of the wreckage from the 1999 NATO bombing’s in Belgrade with sensual images of some of today’s top models, including Jessica Stam, Daria Werbowy, and Eva Herzigova. The series altogether expresses the dark contrast of Reljin’s life, albeit in a manner that hides the horror of the bombings and screams fashion editorial shoot.
Words and report by Leila Samii
Milk Studios
450 West 15th St.
New York, NY
WWW.MILKSTUDIOS.COM
Tags:BG BOOM, Daria Werbowy, Dusan Reljin, Eva Herzigova, Jessica Stam, Milk Studios, New York, ny, photographer, photography, Serbia, traffic magazine
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Monday, October 7th, 2013


PAOLA PIVI, GALERIE PERROTIN
Housed in the new Madison Avenue home of internationally acclaimed Galerie Perrotin, Paola Pivi’s eight whimsically positioned neon plumed life-size bears welcome visitors into art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin’s world of contemporary wonder. The inaugural exhibition for the gallery in New York, Paola Pivi’s “Ok, you are better than me, so what?” embodies the audacious nature of the artist. Known for her Dada-esque technique, Paola Pivi has taken a room full of bears, alarming under realistic circumstances, and has transformed it into a showcase of playfully animated creatures. As a possible homage to the landmark space, which used to be the headquarters of the Bank of New York, Pivi continues the exhibit to the basement floor with “Money machine (true blue, baby I love you)”, a blue stainless steel box that spits out cash and coins on the hour.
Words and pictures by Leila Samïi
Galerie Perrotin
909 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
September 18th – October 26th
WWW.PERROTIN.COM
Tags:baby I love you, galerie perrotin, leila samïi, madison avenue, Money machine, New York, Ok, paola pivi, traffic magazine, true blue, you are better than me so what
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Monday, September 23rd, 2013


In its final days, Le Corbusier exhibition: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes takes visitors on a retrospective journey through the influential oeuvre of Swiss born architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965). The first major exhibition to honor Le Corbusier at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibit showcases Jeanneret’s megalomaniacal work as an architect, interior designer, writer, artist, city planner, and photographer. From Jeanneret’s animated urban plans for Algiers to the precise model for the iconic Villa Savoye, guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen emphasized Le Corbusier’s focus on the modular dialogue between the interior and exterior in all of the pieces on display. Pieces such as the seashells Jeanneret collected from his seaside property on the gulf of Monte Carlo, juxtaposed with the French mountaintop chapel at Ronchamp whose sculpted concrete roof largely resembles a shell itself distinctly exemplify the architects fascination with the interplay between indoor space and its natural surroundings.
The exhibit was on view at MoMA through September 23rd before moving to Barcelona and Madrid next year.
Words and photographs by Leila Samii
MOMA
11 W 53rd St
New York, NY 10019
USA
Tags:Architecture, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Design, Jean-Louis Cohen, Le Corbusier, Moma, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, traffic magazine, Villa Savoye
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013






Architecture and ray of light effecs at the MOMA museum, New York city.
MOMA
11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019
Photo. Charles Mercier
Tags:Architecture, Manhattan, Midtown, Moma, Muséum, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, traffic magazine
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Friday, October 12th, 2012






Le Venus over Manhattan est LE nouvel espace New Yorkais dédié à l’art. Situé sur Madison avenue, dans le même building que la fameuse Gagosian gallery, ce lieu d’échange artistique proposera des évènements hors normes grâce à des collaborations avec des artistes, des marchands, des collectionneurs, des conservateurs et d’autres institutions liées à ce domaine. Il a ouvert ses portes il y a quelques mois et présente son troisième show sans demi mesure. Peter Coffin, artiste emblématique de l’art contemporain américain (représenté par Perrotin) est à l’honneur et nous dévoile ses récents travaux à travers une exposition intitulée A,E,I,O,U à la hauteur de son talent, on peut le dire : énorme… Entre son (un haut parleur diffuse des cris d’animaux en boucle), vidéo (la projection d’un feu de bois défile sur un mur), sculpture, dessin et (genre de) peinture, le cheminement entre chacune de ses oeuvres se savoure tandis que nos sens s’éveillent les uns après les autres (ou tous en même temps).
Il s’agit d’une vraie bouffée d’air frais où l’humour ne manque pas d’air !
Peter Coffin – A,E,I,O,U
September 21th – November 2nd 2012
Venus over Manhattan
980 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, USA
venusovermanhattan.com
Photo. Manon Gorgé
Tags:AEIOU, art, emmanuel perrotin, galerie, New York, Peter coffin, traffic magazine, Venus over Manhattan
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Tags:market, New York, Pop Souk
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Monday, November 7th, 2011











5 POINTZ NY
Considéré comme “la Mecque du graffiti”, le 5 Pointz (Aerosol Art Center) est un lieu d’exposition unique à ciel ouvert où les graffeurs du monde entier viennent poser leurs empreintes. Située dans le Queens à Long Island et sur prés de 20 000 m², l’ ancienne usine désaffectée accueille et loue des ateliers à des centaines d’ artistes. Ouvert au public, cet immense espace, sur lequel il est désormais difficile de voir la couleur des murs d’origine, est devenu un lieu incontournable des visiteurs de New York. Créé en 1993 pour lutter contre le vandalisme urbain, si le 5 Pointz n’a pas réussi ce pari, il aura le mérite d’avoir valoriser l’art de rue.
Regarded as “the Mecca of graffiti”, 5 Pointz (Aerosol Art Center) is a unique exhibition in open space where graffiti artists from all over the world ask their footprints. Located in the Queens in Long Island city, spread on 20 000m², the old abandoned factory hosts workshops and rents hundreds of artists. Open to the public, this huge space, on which it is now difficult to see the original color of the walls, has become a must for visitors to New York. Established in 1993 to fight against urban vandalism, if the 5 Pointz failed this challenge, it will enhance the merit of street art.
Photo. Manon Gorgé
Tags:5 Pointz, Aerosol Art Center, Long Island city, New York, Queens
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011


Diane Arbus (New York, 1923-1971) a révolutionné l’art de la photographie ; l’audace de sa thématique, aussi bien que son approche photographique ont donné naissance à une œuvre souvent choquante par sa pureté, par cette inébranlable célébration des choses telles qu’elles sont. Par son talent à rendre étrange ce que nous considérons comme extrêmement familier, mais aussi à dévoiler le familier à l’intérieur de l’exotique, la photographe ouvre de nouvelles perspectives à la compréhension que nous avons de nous-mêmes…
Tags:Diane Arbus, Jeu de Paume museum, New York, photographie
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