The nonprofit art and design group BOFFO is holding a fund-raiser called “The Narcissists Ball,” which has the tag line “A self-love of epic proportions.” The night is all about you. Bid on commissioned portraits of your beautiful face in a silent auction featuring over 40 artists like Eve Fowler, Olek, Anthony Goicolea and Sandro Kopp, to name just a few. So dress to impress yourself. Read More
Our friends the Looons, who yarnbombed a tree down the block from Observer HQ, have taken their work to the big-time, and it’s not even that big of a piece. Unlike Olek’s huge Wall Street bull sweater or some of the other big yarnbombings out there, this was a fairly simple task, bombing an Aeron office chair. That chair happened to belong to a Good Morning America cohost, though, so now middle America is hip to trend. While this may mean the end of this venerable art form, watching George Stephanopoulos get giddy about some string is pretty funny. Read More
While on our way to lunch yesterday, The Observer passed by a most unusual tree on West 44th Street, a block from the mothership. And no, it was not strange simply because trees are such a rarity in Midtown. Even in the sweltering heat, it had on a sweater. After our sweat-clogged mind cleared, The Observer realized it is, in fact, unusual for a tree to be wearing a sweater, even in November. No, this tree had been yarnbombed. Read More
