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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'chashama'

May 8, 2008

Chashama and Chris Rubino team up to present, "The Center of Something," an exhibit centered around the artist's "take on New York as a destination for both visiting and living." Since Chashama is in Times Square, the exhibit itself will become a temporary tourist attraction itself. But will the locals or the tourists be the ones flocking to it?The exhibit is modeled after the dozens of stores in the neighborhood selling the same inane......

Continue Reading "Art Imitates Tourism in Times Square"

March 8, 2008

Large faces loom over Times Square every day, so why not yours? Join the ranks of over-sized famous faces with a 50-foot-high version of your own face hanging 48 stories above the tourists. The chashama gallery is currently running Raul Vincent Enriquez's "I in the Sky" project, which the artist says is about making eye contact (something most New Yorkers avoid). The Brooklyn artist recently told Wired, "We just need more eye contact; it's what......

Continue Reading "Get Your Eye in the Sky Above Times Square"

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