The forgotten nooks and crannies of New York City, rather than the well-known landmarks, act as a muse for photorealistic painter Max Ferguson. “I’m very into the idea of preserving things that are disappearing,” he explained to the Daily News. “Sometimes I will hear or read about something that’s about to be demolished or a store that is about to close after being there 100 years, so I run there.” If you live in New York, be sure to check out his work in a new show called “Urban Intimacy” that opens at Gallery Henoch this Thursday; click through now to preview a few of our favorite pieces.
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Double-decker tour buses are hardly a novel sight in Manhattan, but if you bedazzle the bus with sequins and glittering streamers and load it up with a rowdy, pajama-clad brass band, even the most jaded New Yorker will stop and look. We know because we were there, squeezed in among rowdy musicians atop a bedazzled bus that wound its way through the city streets on Friday afternoon. The traveling performance was part of an effort to drum up publicity and support for a public art installation that two artists want to bring to Central Park. Nope, it’s not The Gates Part II. It’s a miniature floating city called Chili Moon Town.
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