Yarn Bombed Van in Williamsburg

What a spectacle! My husband and I spent an afternoon in Williamsburg in Brooklyn Saturday. The place was buzzing--the sidewalks were animated with 20-30 year olds looking like ads for Abercombie and Fitch. 

One thing about New York is that you cannot keep up with all the artistic activities going on, so you never know when you're going to stumble onto some big event. The crazy crochet-coverd van is part of an Absolute Vodka art-space-transformation. The artist's name is Olek. You may enjoy her website.

 

An Early December Noon in the Grand Concourse: A Painting by Stone Roberts

Do you think this is photograph? It's a painting! Its part of the larger painting below called An Early December Noon in the Grand Concourse. The painting is huge (next picture), and yet the tiniest of details are visible. Look at the woman's cell phone in her hands and the label on the trash can behind her. 

This stunning painting is on the 3rd floor of the Museum of the City of New York--a truly engaging museum that I highly recommend you visit. You can see the whole museum in three hours or less, and chances are you'll have the place to yourself. Be sure to have lunch there, and do take the docent tour.

 The young boy in the picture below moved out of the way when he saw I had my camera out, but I asked him to stay to help show the scale of the painting. He was fine with that and giggled with his mother about it afterwords.