“Your Neighbor’s Steps”
June 28, 2008 by alex
While flying to San Francisco on Virgin America (my new favorite airline, btw) I stopped to watch this show on Current.TV about Brooklyn graffiti artists in New Orleans called Your Neighbor’s Steps:
A New Orleans art collective works to establish installations in areas hardest hit by Katrina, attracting people to see the art and thus see the devastation. We follow a New York artist to New Orleans where he makes a piece for this organization and sees the devastation first hand for the first time.
The show culminates with a piece that I immediately recognized from Union street near us in Brooklyn. In fact, it was a piece that I had taken a picture of last year on November 26th as part of my Take One A Day project:
The show was entertaining and interestingly shot. On that note, can anyone recommend any other shows on Current. I feel like there may be some interesting stuff there but don’t know anyone who watches it (which is strange since I think our friends are probably part of their target demographic, but that’s a problem for another day).
Anyway, it was nice to unexpectedly get the history on a piece of art that I really liked and it definitely peaked my curiosity about the network for the first time.
Tags: art, brooklyn, graffiti
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