InfoAnda - Secret underground art show thrills New York

Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case
Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They

Taiwan denies boycotting Australian film festival
Thursday, August 6, 2009

AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e

Merkel's support dips, regional ally resigns International
Thursday, September 3, 2009

By Sarah Marsh and Noah Barkin

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German

Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who

Asian markets mixed after Wall Street rally
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an

China vows to wipe out tainted animal feed | International | | 1 November 2008
China to help Taiwan amid global crisis | 21 December 2008
Australian fire zone declared a crime scene | 9 February 2009

Iran in talks with Brazil to resolve nuclear deadlock | | 16 May 2010

Forum Views () Forum Replies ()

Read more with google mobile : Secret underground art show thrills New York

Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition World Secret underground art show thrills New York AFP - 2 hours 44 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Secret underground art show thrills New York NEW YORK (AFP) - – It's the hottest, most talked about art show in New York -- and almost no one even knows where it is. With a huge space and 103 of the hippest contemporary artists participating, "The Underbelly Project" sounds like a powerhouse production at the Met or MoMA. But while the Big Apple may have seen most things in the art world, this is different. Illegally located somewhere deep underground in an abandoned station of the New York Subway system, "Underbelly" consists of graffiti art by a who's who of the street genre's leading exponents. Starting in 2009, they worked clandestinely, with almost military discipline, to elude the authorities, navigate pitch-black tunnels, paint, and resurface. Their work completed, the artists sealed access to the subterranean complex and abandoned their mysterious outpourings. The show's website, www.theunderbellyproject.com, has for the last week displayed nothing more than a brief written introduction against the flashing background of empty tunnels. It "defies every norm of the gallery scene," wrote Jasper Rees, one of the few outsiders allowed to glimpse the phantom show and who revealed its existence October 31 in The New York Times. "Collectors can't buy the art," Rees says. "The public can't see it. And the only people with a chance of stumbling across it are the urban explorers who prowl the city's hidden infrastructure or employees of the Metropolitan Transport Authority." Photos posted by the Times and on street art blogs show dramatic, wild works executed in appalling conditions of dust, damp and darkness broken only by camping lanterns. Slogans like "We own the night" give way to abstract creations, surreal human forms, and ghoulish apparitions of rats and skulls. But what created an instant legend was the idea of entombing the work. "Even if any of us wanted to go back (and I do), even if we could remember how to get there (and I don't), we can't," writes Michael "RJ" Rushmore, who was taken to photograph the site, for his blog vandalog.com. "'The Underbelly Project' has become a time capsule." A guessing game is underway across art websites about the location of this ultimate underground experience. Many New Yorkers are unaware of the archipelago of abandoned stations, platforms and tracks, or trackless tunnels running parallel to the visible Subway system. There are nine complete stations alone, according to the website Abandoned Stations. Charles Seaton, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transport Authority, or MTA, confirmed to AFP only that "it is a closed station. All I can tell you is that it's in Brooklyn." The war between the MTA and graffiti vandals has been going on for decades. Spraying of subway trains got so out of control in the 1970s and '80s that many carriages were almost inundated in "tags." "Tagging" continues today, but the MTA immediately pulls those cars out of service, starving would-be artists of the notoriety they crave. And Seaton said the "Underbelly Project" was not being taken lightly. "Trespassing is against the law, as is vandalism. Anyone caught in connection with this incident is subject to arrest," Seaton warned. That illegality is exactly what drove the "Underbelly Project" as it sought to reclaim graffiti's daredevil roots and, in the words of the project's website, create an "elusive pirate treasure of contemporary art." The show also sought to roll back the commercialization and gentrification of graffiti. This is an age when street artists like JR and Britain's Banksy have global recognition and collectors are pouring in money. Next year, Los Angeles' trendy Museum of Contemporary Art plans a major retrospective of graffiti called "Art in the Streets." And last year, the Cartier Foundation in Paris had its own "Born in the Streets" show. So taking their spray cans four storeys under New York was about as far from the chic gallery scene that "Underbelly's" artists could get. As, Workhorse, one of the two leaders of the project, told Rees: "If you go in there and break your neck, nobody's going to hear you scream." But, like the incomplete map of the Subway system, not everything is straightforward. Although they worked in secret, many of the artists taking part in the project are literally stars in the worldwide graffiti community. LTV Squad.com, another blog, cites a "'who's who' of the art world," including Sane, Swoon, Roa, Posterchild, Faile, F5, Smells, and Cash4. "'The Underbelly Project' is perhaps the biggest, boldest art project of its kind ever created within NYC." That kind of hype is making some graffiti aficionados skeptical. "The artists talked about not making this a mainstream thing with the galleries, but in a sense it falls right into that," said Eric Felisbret, a former tagger who runs the influential www.at149st.com website and who recently published "Graffiti New York," a photo history. "It helps reinforce their street cred and that's what gets buyers interested in this form of art. It builds the mystique," Felisbret told AFP. He added drily: "If they wanted to be secret, they wouldn't have contacted the Times." Photographs of the "Underbelly Project" can be viewed at: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/29/arts/design/20101101-underbelly-ss.html And http://tagbomb2.ltvsquad.com/DisplayPage/ID/24/Sec/Gallery/ Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles Secret underground art show thrills New York AFP - 2 hours 44 minutes ago Book prize on a platter for France's Houellebecq? AFP - Sunday, November 7 Actress Jill Clayburgh dies at 66 AFP - Sunday, November 7 US porn maker to resume filming after HIV scare AFP - Saturday, November 6 US-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Reuters - Saturday, November 6 News Search Top Stories Fed not in the business of inflation: Bernanke Yemen orders arrest of US-born cleric Awlaqi German protesters mobilise against nuclear waste train Kubica tops final practice in Brazilian GP Dell has not ruled out going private, CFO says More Top Stories » ADVERTISEMENT Most Popular Most Viewed Most Recommended World's oldest axe found in Australia Dell has not ruled out going private, CFO says RBS bank plunges back into loss NASA comet fly-by yields rare images from deep space Atom smasher ventures deeper into 'new frontier' More Most Viewed » Alcohol more harmful than heroin, crack cocaine: study Toddler survives seven-floor fall in France Spectacular unknown species found in Amazon Ancient galaxy is more than 13 billion light years away Moon's 'treasure chest' includes silver More Most Recommended » Elsewhere on Yahoo! Financial news on Yahoo! Finance Stars and latest movies Best travel destinations More on Yahoo! News Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Subscribe to our news feeds Top StoriesMy Yahoo!RSS » More news feeds | What are news feeds? Also on Yahoo! Answers Groups Mail Messenger Mobile Travel Finance Movies Sports Games » All Yahoo! Services Site Highlights Singapore Full Coverage Most Popular Entertainment Photos Yahoo! News Network Copyright © 2010 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Community | Intellectual Property Rights Policy | Help

Other News on Sunday, 7 November 2010
German protesters mobilise against nuclear waste train
NATO: Afghan soldier may have killed 2 NATO troops
Gunmen block roads after Mexican drug lord killed |
Pope warns of 'aggressive' anti-priest culture in Spain
Israel's Barak not optimistic about Iran talks |
French take to the streets again for fading pension protests
Germany minister now warns of terror attack threat |
Kubica tops final practice in Brazilian GP
Top Russian journalist in coma after attack
Mass German anti-nuclear rally against waste shipment |
French pension protest shrinks as unity frays |
Ivory Coast overrules poll result challenges |
Vietnamese police detain government critic: state TV
England taught lesson by clinical All Blacks
Beale inspires Wallabies to rugby win over Wales
Arrests made over Afghan U.N. raid
Obama wins India business
Book prize on a platter for France's Houellebecq?
Portugal hopes to reap benefits from Hu's visit
BP to sign exploration deal with Chinese company: report
China's Hu seals France ties ahead of G20
'Peer pressure' will police currency deal: S.Korea
S.Korea's Lee sees peer pressure enforcing G20 deal
APEC pledges cooperation to protect growth
Leader hails strong Taiwanese economic recovery
Reports Afghan soldier shot foreign troops probed
Myanmar votes in first election in 20 years |
German protesters mobilise against nuclear waste train
U.N. rejects south Sudan calls for peacekeepers
AFP, EFE join forces to fight piracy
Fed not in the business of inflation: Bernanke
Pope warns of Spain's anti-priest culture
Haiti dodges storm disaster as cholera toll rises |
Microsoft CEO sells 1.3 billion dollars in shares in company
Yemen orders arrest of US-born cleric Awlaqi
Bodies of 5 Afghan policemen found in east
Greeks vote in high-stake local elections |
Sister of Dutch Colombian guerrilla urges her to surrender
Awareness About Hinduism Gets Spotlight At Fort Collins
Google Maps embroiled in Central America border dispute
150 Arrested In Protest Of Police Officer Sentencing
French take to the streets again for fading pension protests
U.N. rejects south Sudan calls for peacekeepers |
China resolved to protect intellectual property: minister
Guineans set to vote in presidential run-off |
U.S. won't know pace of Afghan drawdown for months |
Azerbaijan election to extend rule of Aliyev party |
U.S. won't know pace of Afghan drawdown for months
Chinese artist blasts 'inhuman' Communist regime
First openly gay Episcopal bishop to retire in 2013
Volcano causes more flight chaos in Indonesia
United States urges Fiji to return to democracy
Dancing Obama appeals to Indian youth
NATO to keep nuclear weapons
Recalled Japanese envoy returns to Russia
Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate
Australia, US want China to be 'force for good'
Secret underground art show thrills New York
Indian media say Obama visit hitting right notes
Marines' leader: Keep policy on gays in military
World's tallest Jesus looms over Poland
China dissident writer to attend Nobel ceremony
American rancher buys Miracle on Ice gold medal
Clinton calls Myanmar elections sign of repression
Pompeii house collapses into rubble
Myanmar votes in election marred by fraud fears
Gates says US seeks no new bases in Asia
Home crowd expectations for badminton star Lin Dan
Clinton says Myanmar election deeply 'flawed'
Coal India issue could boost future state sales
Obama, Calderon talk after Mexican drug shootout
Get rich quick trumps market reform: analysts
US, Australia pressure Myanmar, Fiji over rights
S.Korea seeks to revive foreign bond tax -Yonhap
Report: China may tighten controls on rare earths
China's Hu calls for Portuguese cooperation on reform agenda
Greeks vote in high-stakes local elections |
Israel set to present Lebanese border plan to U.N. |
MTV Unpacks The EMA Goodie Bags
Iran says nuclear talks could be held in Turkey |
APPA Foods Recalls Chicken Pasta Salad Over Salmonella Contamination Fear
German police clash with anti-nuclear activists |
Baugher Enterprise, Inc. Recalls Baugher's Apple Cider Because of Possible E. Coli Risk
Afghan polls protesters warn of possible violence |
Early voting peaceful in Guinea election |
Apathy and allegations mark Azerbaijan election |
Israel PM heads to New Orleans to meet Biden
Thousands protest in Seoul before G20 summit |
China offers to support Portugal but no debt pledge
Islamist boycott dents Jordan polls |
Oakland residents awaken to broken windows, debris
Volcano travel chaos as ash grounds Indonesia flights
Tens of thousands rally in S.Korea against G20 summit
Korea's Shin wins Mizuno Classic golf
China to spend $4.5bn on domestic mineral exploration
Japan says it will open up economy, seek more FTAs
Greece at new risk of being pushed off euro
Bodies of missing Tenn. mom, Jo Ann Bain, and daughter found
Female Breasts Are Bigger Than Ever
AMD Trinity Accelerated Processing Units Now in Volume Production
The Avengers (2012 film), made the second biggest opening- and single-day gross of all-time
AMD to Start Production of piledriver
Ivy Bridge Quad-Core, Four-Thread Desktop CPUs
Islamists Protest Lady Gaga's Concert in Indonesia
Japan Successfully Broadcasts an 8K Signal Over the Air
ECB boosts loans to 1 trillion Euro to stop credit crunch
Egypt : Mohammed Morsi won with 52 percent
What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up
AMD Launches AMD Embedded R-Series APU Platform
Fed Should not Ignore Emerging Market Crisis
Fed casts shadow over India, emerging markets
Why are Chinese tourists so rude? A few insights

USD EUR - 1 year graph		BlogMeter 1.01