tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68813490305354165622024-03-13T15:03:00.896-04:00Central Park Portrait ExchangeA series of portrait exchanges with professional portrait drawers in Manhattan's Central Park.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-73735282508582976002024-01-19T10:54:00.006-05:002024-01-20T07:20:47.221-05:00Central Park Portrait Exchange Round-Up
<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kwjyigEPr0B9WIB4TvNGQx2VSphaulkJrBkMQfoDpZywnkTTTTuE7P2FvX5IwDWCR207BziWR60NvN6V6698jMEFWMqQOKOihBVMQBT94IxtIO-b0VrbFtUuPCdC2tT5VruezSNrdNqXXDFOJi5Fixf8oD8oyfwrqd1B8W-93yAEhd1Oq9zqB0mvLwOX/s1600/Walsh%20and%20Xiang%20in%20the%20Park.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1195" data-original-width="1600" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kwjyigEPr0B9WIB4TvNGQx2VSphaulkJrBkMQfoDpZywnkTTTTuE7P2FvX5IwDWCR207BziWR60NvN6V6698jMEFWMqQOKOihBVMQBT94IxtIO-b0VrbFtUuPCdC2tT5VruezSNrdNqXXDFOJi5Fixf8oD8oyfwrqd1B8W-93yAEhd1Oq9zqB0mvLwOX/w640-h478/Walsh%20and%20Xiang%20in%20the%20Park.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artists Peter Walsh and Xiang Yue Chuan during the onsite exhibition in Central Park in New York City. Photo by Tim Murray.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">The Central Park Portrait Exchange was a series of portrait exchanges with
professional portrait drawers in New York City's Central Park that took place
between 2010 and 2012. </span><p></p>
<p>To learn more about the Exchange, click in the “Pages” menu to see the
drawings, photos of each exchange and a short explanation of how and why the Exchange
came into being.</p>
<p><b>Here are some of the Blog Highlights:</b></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/07/finally-video-post-for-central-park.html"><span style="color: blue;">Finally! A Video Post for the Central Park Portrait Exchange</span></a></span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/p/drawings.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Drawings </span></a></span></p><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/p/photos.html"><span style="color: blue;">Photos from the Exchanges</span></a></span></p><br /><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Commentary </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/10/update-on-public-space-issues-for.html"><span style="color: blue;">Update on the Public Space Issues for Occupy Wall Street:
Liberty Square </span></a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/12/edict-of-1853.html"><span style="color: blue;">The Edict of 1853</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-does-art-project-like-central-park.html"><span style="color: blue;">How does an art project like the Central Park Portrait
Exchange come into being?</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/11/non-monetary-exchange-part-two.html"><span style="color: blue;">Non-Monetary Exchange, Part Two</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/06/brian-haw-and-fight-for-public-space.html"><span style="color: blue;">Brian Haw and the Fight for Public Space</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/02/glabella-philtrum-tragus-caruncle-do.html"><span style="color: blue;">Glabella, Philtrum, Tragus, Caruncle: Do Faces Matter?</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Legal Situation</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1994950512"><span style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/05/appeals-court-rules-against-artists-in.html"><span style="color: blue;">Appeals Court Rules Against Artists in Dua v. City of New
York Department of Parks Suit</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/07/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-forces-artists-to.html"><span style="color: blue;">NYC Mayor Bloomberg Forces Artists to Run for Their
Livelihoods</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/09/artists-peter-walsh-and-joel-kaye.html"><span style="color: blue;">Artists Peter Walsh and Joel Kaye Testify, Hearing to
Continue Wednesday</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/08/private-real-estate-and-public-parks.html"><span style="color: blue;">Private Real Estate and Public Parks</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Artists</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/07/session-four-artashes-karslian-and.html"><span style="color: blue;">Session Four: Artashes Karslian and Peter Walsh </span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/08/session-seven-sharif-sadiq-and-peter.html"><span style="color: blue;">Session Seven: Sharif Sadiq and Peter Walsh</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/08/session-eight-amon-azizov-and-peter.html"><span style="color: blue;">Session Eight: Amon Azizov and Peter Walsh</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/09/session-nine-gao-min-and-peter-walsh.html"><span style="color: blue;">Session Nine: Gao Min and Peter Walsh</span></a></span></p>
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<p>Organized by artist Peter Walsh, the exchange featured artists Wei Chen, Ji
Yin Jin, Artashes Karslian, Li Qun, Lin Ruo, Dean Lu, Qiao Fu, Ren Jien-Guo,
Jorge Rivera, Sharif Sadiq, Peter Walsh, Xiang Yue Chuan, Dario Zapata and
Zhuang Xuemin.</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-81522094751191821342014-03-07T13:16:00.000-05:002014-03-07T13:17:29.314-05:00Portrait Exchange Exhibited at P74 Gallery in SloveniaThe Central Park Portrait Exchange was featured in the exhibition "P<b>rotests: 6 Case Studies</b>" at Ljubljana's <b>P74 Gallery</b> in Slovenia. The show highlighted a selection of artist protests over a 60 year period and included works by <b>France Kralj</b> (1953), <b>Marko Pogačnik</b> (1966), <b>Antonio Manuel</b> (1970), <b>Goran Đorđević </b>(1979), <b>Peter Walsh</b> (2010-2012), <b>Sašo Stanojkovik</b> (2007-2012). Curated by <b>Tadej Pogačar</b>, the show was up from November 26 through December 17, 2013.<br />
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Special thanks go out to T<b>adej Pogačar</b> and the staff at <b>P74</b>, and of course to the artists who participated in the project including <b>Amon Azizov</b>, <b>Wei Chen,</b> <b>Qiao Fu</b>, <b>Gao Min</b>, <b>Guo Kun Sheug</b>, <b>Artashes Karslian</b>, <b>Ji Yin Jin</b>, <b>Li Qun,</b> <b>Lin Ruo</b>, <b>Dean Lu</b>, <b>Ren Jien-Guo</b>, <b>Jorge Rivera</b>, <b>Sharif Sadiq</b>, <b>Xiang Yue Chuan</b>, <b>Dario Zapata </b>and <b>Zhuang Xuemin</b>. Thanks also to all of the great individuals who helped make the project possible including <b>Roberto Guerra</b>, <b>Kathy Brew</b>, <b>Robert Lederman</b>, <b>Deidre Hoguet</b>, <b>Louise Ma</b>, <b>Miriam Eusebio</b>, <b>Robin Randisi</b> and <b>Alex Ramirez-Mallis</b>.<br />
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For more information go to:
<a href="http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/archives/1316">http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/archives/1316</a>
Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-81534036692447330782013-11-24T16:50:00.000-05:002013-11-25T09:42:36.810-05:00Park Artists Take Case to the U.S. Supreme Court<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Following on the heels of an appeals court loss in September, the artist-plaintiffs suing the City of New York over rules regulating art vendors in city parks are petitioning the United States Supreme Court to hear the their appeal. Robert Lederman, the lead plaintiff in the case and president of the street art vendors’ organization A.R.T.I.S.T., released a statement vowing “We intend to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court at the earliest possible date, and feel confident that the many errors in both the appeals court ruling and the lower court ruling will be overturned.”<br />
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As they move to petition the Supreme Court, it appears that Lederman and his attorney Julie Milner may be approaching this latest appeal from a new direction based on the court’s ruling that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor Edward Skylar could avoid being deposed in the case. According to Lederman, the decision makes it “virtually impossible to obtain a deposition from any government official.” In addition, Lederman has stated that “If allowed to stand, this ruling would protect police officials, mayors, agency commissioners, governors, senators or even the US President from ever having to face a sworn deposition. Even the lowest level government officials would be able to cite this ruling in order to avoid giving a sworn deposition.”
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<a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130926/upper-east-side/federal-court-upholds-city-rule-regulating-art-vendors-parks">Federal Court Upholds City Rule Regulating Art Vendors in Parks</a>
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Victoria Bekiempis, DNAinfo New York, September 26, 2013
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<a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/09/25/61479.htm">Appeal Is a Washout for NYC Street Art Activist</a>
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Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Service, Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/171012116/In-artist-case-Court-Limits-Right-to-Depose-Government-Officials">In artist case, Court Limits Right to Depose Government Officials</a>
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Robert Lederman, President of ARTIST, Friday, September 27, 2013<br />
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/170930046/Decision-and-Order-WEB">Appeals Court Decision</a>
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Judges Cabranes, Hall and Chin, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Court House at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan.</td></tr>
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In a setback to artists and sellers of books and other "expressive matter" in New York City's public parks, Federal Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the Southern District of New York has upheld revised Parks Department rules created in 2010 that limit the space available for the vending of materials protected by the first amendment. Judge Sullivan awarded summary judgement to the city in Lederman v. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, 10 Civ. 4800, dismissing artists' claims that the rules were a pretext for driving artists out of the parks.<br />
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Vowing to appeal the case to the Second Circuit of the United States Appeals Court, Robert Lederman, one of the plaintiff's in the artist's suit, stated, “We disagree with the ruling in every detail and expect that the appeals court will reverse
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Judge Sullivan's decision is not entirely surprising. In <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/07/judge-denies-temporary-injunction.html" target="_blank">July of 2010 he denied the artists a preliminary injunction</a> blocking the implementation of the revised park rules, stating that the rules did not appear to violate the first amendment and that the artists were unlikely to prevail on the merits of their claims. In addition, at an earlier <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/07/report-on-show-cause-hearing-on-new.html" target="_blank">"Show Cause Hearing" on July 8, 2010</a>, Judge Sullivan, while questioning lawyers for both sides, seemed to indicate that he believed it wasn’t his job to interfere in the city’s management of park rules if ultimately they had a right to regulate the time, place and manner of vending of the "expressive matter vendors" selling first amendment materials. In Monday's ruling, Judge Sullivan appears to have accepted at face value the Parks Department assertions that the artists had "ample other avenues to sell their wares."<br />
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However, the ruling does seem to leave the door open for the artists to appeal on a variety of issues. What issues the artists and their lawyers choose to include in their appeal remains to be seen.<br />
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The full decision is available here:
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/108588627/SJ-1-Oct-2012">
http://www.scribd.com/doc/108588627/SJ-1-Oct-2012</a><br />
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More on the ruling:<br />
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<i><b>OpposingViews.com, Tue, October 02, 2012</b></i><br />
<b>NYC Art Activists Must Find New Vending Turf
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By Courthouse News<br />
<a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/nyc-art-activists-must-find-new-vending-turf" target="_blank">http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/nyc-art-activists-must-find-new-vending-turf </a><br />
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<br />Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-30139510980972218682012-06-18T14:55:00.001-04:002024-01-18T22:12:59.268-05:00Saturday in the Park<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artists Peter Walsh and Xiang Yue Chuan enjoying the show on a beautiful day in the park. Photo by Tim Murray.</td></tr>
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The Central Park Portrait Exchange was shown in its entirety for the first time this Saturday, June 16, 2012 on a gloriously beautiful early summer day in Manhattan’s Central Park. Artists, well-wishers, tourists and park visitors came out to see the work and discuss the project. The 15 sets of drawings were set up in a portable exhibit under a majestic oak tree in the same small plaza where many of the drawings had been completed. The Parks Department police, also known as PEP officers (Parks Enforcement Patrol), did not hinder the exhibition in any way. <br />
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Many of the participating Portrait Exchange artists were in the park Saturday including Xiang Yue Chuan, Dario Zapata, Artashes Karslian, Wei Chen, Jorge Rivera, Peter Walsh and Sharif Sadiq and those that could easily take a break from their work dropped by to see the display. <br />
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Special thanks go out to all the artists working in the park and to Tim Murray who shot video and still photography. Below is small slideshow of snapshots from the day. More photos are on the way soon and a short documentary of the day should be available later this summer.<br />
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterwalshprojects/albums/72157630162009494" title="CPPE Exhibition, Mobile Photos"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/5238/7387302632_e905240d3a_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="CPPE Exhibition, Mobile Photos"/></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-34531203546552318202012-06-10T08:56:00.002-04:002012-06-10T09:12:58.894-04:00Central Park Portrait Exchange Exhibition! Saturday, June 16, 10am-2pm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WF5dAuj1ntE/T9SToWlxQvI/AAAAAAAAAH8/uR-v5c-mxOw/s1600/15ConstructCPPE.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WF5dAuj1ntE/T9SToWlxQvI/AAAAAAAAAH8/uR-v5c-mxOw/s640/15ConstructCPPE.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br />
Finally! All 15 sets of original drawings made as part of the <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Central Park Portrait Exchange</a> will be exhibited for one day only on Saturday, June 16 from 10am till 2pm - on site in the southeast corner of Central Park, 60th Street at Grand Army Plaza.<br />
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Participating artists include Amon Azizov, Wei Chen, Qiao Fu, Gao Min, Artashes Karslian, Ji Yin Jin, Li Qun, Lin Ruo, Dean Lu, Ren Jien-Guo, Jorge Rivera, Sharif Sadiq, Peter Walsh, Xiang Yue Chuan, Dario Zapata and Zhuang Xuemin.<br />
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Click here for the Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/446269535391455/" target="_blank">event page.</a><br />
See the map below, or click here for a <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=203826417178493442426.0004c21d7256d4dc96d73&msa=0&ll=40.765161,-73.972817&spn=0.001948,0.00394" target="_blank">map</a>.<br />
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"The drawings will go up in a great shaded spot just a few yards from where many of the Central Park portrait artists - like Xiang Yue Chuan and Dario Zapata - set up and work every day," says organizer Peter Walsh. "But why is space available? Because the new park rules have made this perfect location 'illegal' for artists." The <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2012/05/portrait-exchange-exhibition-on-way.html" target="_blank">one day "pop-up" exhibition</a> can set up only because the portrait exchange drawings will be marked "For Display Only, Not For Sale."<br />
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Artists have sued the Parks Department in federal and state court. Oral arguments on the City’s motion for summary judgment in the federal lawsuit will be heard by judge Richard J. Sullivan on Thursday, June 28 at 2:30pm at the Federal Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in Manhattan.<br />
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<small>View <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=203826417178493442426.0004c21d7256d4dc96d73&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=40.764564,-73.973141&spn=0.00195,0.003433&z=18&source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;">Central Park Portrait Exchange Exhibition</a> in a larger map</small>Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-54242610424312955692012-05-30T17:46:00.001-04:002012-06-09T13:26:03.989-04:00Portrait Exchange Exhibition on the Way!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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The thirty original drawings from the <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Central Park Portrait Exchange</a> will be shown soon in a one day pop-up exhibition in Manhattan’s Central Park. The portable display is designed to emerge from a milk crate on wheels and unfold into an elegant display that gives park visitors – and the participating artists themselves – a chance to finally see all fifteen pairs of portrait exchanges simultaneously. <br />
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Built by project organizer and artist Peter Walsh, the “exhibition-in-a-box” will set up directly across the street from Grand Army Plaza’s Sherman monument in the southeast corner of Central Park on a spot that has recently become “off-limits” to artist vendors because of controversial new park rules instituted in 2010. Those rules have sparked several <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2012/05/federal-judge-to-review-new-materials.html" target="_blank">artist lawsuits</a> against the city in both state and federal courts. Those new rules do not apply to the upcoming display of the Central Park Portrait Exchange since they explicitly impact only “expressive matter vendors” selling art in New York City parks and do not apply to artists who, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/walshpeter/d/95346329-Sullivan-Comment-on-Display-Only" target="_blank">as Federal Judge Richard J. Sullivan said at a court hearing in July of 2010</a>, wish to participate in the “marketplace of ideas” by just displaying art. <br />
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Says Walsh: “This is an opportunity for a group of artists to reoccupy a part of the commons that is increasingly under attack from well-heeled interlopers who seek to reduce the varied ways in which a public park can be used by ordinary people. I can’t wait to talk to people in the park and see how they respond to the drawings. Showing art in an open public place creates incredible dialogues that go beyond what is shared in the cloistered space of galleries and museums.”<br />
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The date for the one-day show will be announced soon. For details of the ongoing construction of the exhibition, see the photo slideshow below.<br />
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In a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/93667042/Letter-to-Judge-Sullivan-to-Supplement-Record-14-May-2011" target="_blank">May 14, 2012 letter</a> to Judge Sullivan requesting permission to file the new materials, the artists’ attorney Julie Milner claimed that the City’s new position on buskers and entertainers was directly at odds with papers filed in federal court by the city. According to Milner, “this raises an issue of material fact of whether artists are targeted for enforcement not equally applied to similarly situated individuals.” The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that laws be enforced consistently for individuals in similar circumstances.<br />
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Reached for <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/federal_judge_t.php" target="_blank">comment</a> yesterday by Village Voice reporter Victoria Bekiempis, the City’s attorney Sheryl Neufeld stated "The plaintiffs are just engaging in wishful thinking. There is nothing in today's order that supports their belief that the judge has given their contentions credence."<br />
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In a May 14, 2012 email, Robert Lederman, an artist plaintiff in the federal case and president of the street artists organization A.R.T.I.S.T., described the City’s new take on park rules enforcement as “explosive” and “a complete reversal of the City’s previous legal position.”<br />
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Judge Sullivan has scheduled oral arguments on the City’s motion for summary judgment for Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 2:30p.m. at the Federal Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street.<br />
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See also:<br />
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Judge Sullivan’s Order:<br />
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/93817802">http://www.scribd.com/doc/93817802</a><br />
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Artists’ Letter to Judge Sullivan:<br />
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/93667042/Letter-to-Judge-Sullivan-to-Supplement-Record-14-May-2011">http://www.scribd.com/doc/93667042/Letter-to-Judge-Sullivan-to-Supplement-Record-14-May-2011</a><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/federal_judge_t.php" target="_blank">“Federal Judge To Decide if Artists Can Play in The Park”</a><br />
Village Voice, Victoria Bekiempis, Tuesday, May 15 2012Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-9043296149035286042012-05-12T07:56:00.020-04:002012-05-15T16:39:41.644-04:00Parks’ Decision to Allow Performers in Park Could Aid Artists’ SuitThe New York City Parks Department has reversed course on its policy of holding entertainers and musicians performing in city parks accountable to the same restrictive rules and regulations affecting visual artists. <br />
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In an <a href="http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2012/05/10/parks-department-reverses-course-on-performance-crackdown-at-washington-square-park/" target="_blank">article on the Washington Square Park Blog</a>, Parks Spokesperson Phil Abramson announced that “Busking and entertainers are not subject to the expressive matter vending rule,” adding, “They must still abide by other park rules though such as they cannot block benches or paths, play with amplified sound, etc.” The victory for park goers and performers could aid visual artists in their ongoing suit in federal court against new expressive matter vending rules promulgated by the Parks Department beginning in 2010.<br />
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According to an article published by email on May 11, 2012 by Robert Lederman, president of the street artists’ organization A.R.T.I.S.T and a plaintiff in the visual artists suit, “The Parks Dept is now violating their entire rule revision by reversing the legal position they stated throughout the Federal lawsuit (that the rules were equally enforced against musicians and performers as well as visual artists).”<br />
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<b>Why does the policy reversal matter?</b><br />
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As defendants in the lawsuit, the Parks Department needs to show that they are not targeting particular classes of people or selectively enforcing the new parks rules on vending. If they allow performers to operate in park spaces outside of the same rules that they enforce against visual artists, they will likely be in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. That clause states "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."<br />
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More info:<br />
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<a href="http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2012/05/city-backs-down-on-artists-musicans-in.html" target="_blank">"City Backs Down On Artists & Musicians In Washington Square Park" </a><br />
<i>A Walk in the Park</i>, May 14, 2012, by Geoffrey Croft<br />
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<a href="http://washingtonsquareparkblog.com/2012/05/10/parks-department-reverses-course-on-performance-crackdown-at-washington-square-park/" target="_blank">"City Reverses Course on Performance Crackdown at Washington Square Park – No More Ticketing and Fining of “Entertainers and Buskers”"</a><br />
Washington Square Park Blog, May 11, 2012Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-349457979869530072011-12-08T13:41:00.001-05:002011-12-09T12:00:35.185-05:00Musicians Booted from Washington Square ParkNew York City Parks Department PEP officers have begun issuing tickets to musicians and other performers who ask for donations in Manhattan’s famed Washington Square Park. The park has been a meeting place for street musicians and their fans since it became a haven for the emerging folk music movement in the 1940s, more than 60 years ago.<br />
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For comprehensive coverage of the situation see Geoffrey Croft’s <b>A Walk In the Park</b> blog post <a href="http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2011/12/bloomberg-cracks-down-on-performers-in.html">“Bloomberg $ Cracks Down On Performers In Washington Square Park Ticket Blitz.”</a> The post includes a dozen links to other articles.<br />
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<b>Why now?</b><br />
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Although none of the major news outlets such as the <b>New York Times</b> have acknowledged it, the crackdown appears to be in direct response to street art vendors’ legal suits against the Bloomberg Administration’s new rules on “expressive matter” vending in public parks. The new rules have been in effect since July 2011 when a panel of state appellate judges vacated a temporary restraining order blocking the city from implementing the rules.<br />
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During the ongoing suits in both state and federal courts, visual artists have accused the city of selective enforcement of the rules. Ticketing musicians and other performers is likely an attempt to send a message to the courts that this is not true.<br />
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<b>What’s different about this new crackdown on artists and musicians?</b><br />
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For the first time in the battle over the new rules, the city is issuing tickets enforcing a new rule that makes it illegal for artists, musicians and performers to operate within fifty foot of monuments (including park features like Washington Square Park’s fountain) and within five foot of park benches. <br />
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According to an email distributed on December 7, 2011 by artist <b>Robert Lederman</b>, who is the President of the street artists organization <b>A.R.T.I.S.T.</b> and a plaintiff in the federal court case against the city, “In Washington Square Park, as in many other NYC Parks, 50 feet from a monument alone precludes the entire park from First Amendment activity. The arch, the fountain and all statues and plaques are considered monuments. PEP officers have stated on video that in WSP there is no place for an artist or performer to legally set up, under these new rules.”<br />
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<b>So what?</b><br />
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Officials and attorneys representing the New York City Department of Parks have repeatedly stated in both state and federal court that artists who are unable to secure an authorized “green medallion” spot created by the new rules in Central Park, Union Square Park, Battery Park and the High Line can simply decamp to other parks and locations. What the new crackdown against musicians and performers in Washington Square Park suggests is that those city officials and attorneys have been misrepresenting the scope and restrictiveness of the new rules. It should be interesting to see how the judges in those cases (Federal District Court<b> Judge Richard J. Sullivan</b> and <b>Justice Milton A. Tingling, Jr. </b>of the New York State Supreme Court) respond to evidence that they have been misled.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Update:</b></div><br />
Community Board 2 will be holding a "Washington Square Park Speak Out" on Monday, December 19th at 6:30pm at NYU's Kimmel Center, 60 WSP South, 8th floor. If you want to email comments, send them to <a href="mailto:washingtonsquareparkspeakout@gmail.com">washingtonsquareparkspeakout@gmail.com</a>.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-66817912581075365792011-11-16T11:51:00.000-05:002011-12-08T13:27:09.896-05:00Judge Refuses to Extend Temporary Restraining Order at Zuccotti ParkNew York State Supreme Court Judge Michael D. Stallman has refused to extend a Temporary Restraining Order blocking New York City's eviction of Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan. In doing so the judge essentially ruled that the new rules imposed after the arrival of Occupy Wall Street by the parks owners, Brookfield Properties, are "reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions permitted under the First Amendment."<br />
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In his decision, Judge Stallman stated: "To the extent that City law prohibits the erection of structures, the use of gas or other combustible materials, and the accumulation of garbage and human waste in public places, enforcement of the law and the owner's rules appears reasonable to permit the owner to maintain its space in a hygienic, safe, and lawful condition, and to prevent it from being liable by the City or others for violations of law, or in tort. It also permits public access by those who live and work in the area who are the intended beneficiaries of this zoning bonus."<br />
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See the full text of the decision <a href="http://www.courts.state.ny.us/press/OWS111511.pdf">here</a>.<br />
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Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-86336418390592921722011-10-03T19:48:00.000-04:002011-12-08T13:27:09.898-05:00Update on the Public Space Issues for Occupy Wall Street: Liberty Square<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liberty Square / Zuccotti Park on the morning of Thursday, September 29, 2011. Lunching office workers in the foreground, Occupy Wall Street protesters in the center of the park.</td></tr>
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I spoke today with Professor Jerold S. Kayden, Harvard Professor and author of the book <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Privately-Owned-Public-Space/The-Municipal-Art-Society-of-New-York/e/9780471362579?itm=1&usri=privately%2Bowned%2Bpublic">“Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience.”</a> Professor Kayden graciously led me through the sometimes arcane business of New York City’s incentive zoning rules and regulations. Here’s what I found out from our conversation and from Professor Kayden’s book.<br />
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Zuccotti Park, known as Liberty Square by the<a href="http://occupywallst.org/"> Occupy Wall Street</a> protesters, is considered a “special permit plaza.” Technically speaking, unlike previously reported, it’s probably not a “bonus” plaza, where the original developers secured extra floor space at One Liberty Plaza, the fifty four floor skyscraper just to the north of the park. Bonus office space at that building likely was allowed by the creation of the public space around the building itself. Instead the special permit plaza likely came into being in exchange for other zoning concessions authorized by the Department of City Planning.<br />
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Regardless, according to Kayden, the park’s owner Brookfield Office Properties likely agreed to provide a “physical place located on private property to which the owner has granted legally binding rights of access and use to members of the public, most often in return for something of value from the city” (Kayden, Privately Owned Public Space, p.21), that “value” in this case being a zoning concession.<br />
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So can Brookfield ask the protesters to leave?<br />
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No and Yes.<br />
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“The Zoning Resolution requires privately owned public spaces to host ‘public use,’ but never expressly defines limits, if any, an owner may impose upon such public use. The Department of City Planning has taken the position that an owner may prescribe ‘reasonable’ rules of conduct. In determining the definition of reasonable, the Department has looked to the rules of conduct applicable in City-owned parks for general guidance.” (Kayden, POPS, p.38.) Note that these are very similar to the kind of “time, place and manner” restrictions that the city is using against artists working in public parks and that are at the heart of artists’ current lawsuit against the Parks Department in the Lederman federal case.<br />
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Professor Kayden believes that creating a rule of conduct that says “no political protests” is unlikely to be considered “reasonable” under these terms, but that this is not a First Amendment issue. The park is still privately owned and says Kayden, “in all likelihood, it would be an uphill climb to maintain that Brookfield Office Properties is a governmental actor subject to the full provisions of the First Amendment.” (See American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company v. Delores Scott Sullivan, 526 U.S. 40 (1999) for a court ruling on standards for what constitutes “state action” by a private owner.)<br />
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However, while Brookfield likely can’t ask Occupy New York to leave Zuccotti Park because they are using the park for a political protest, they may be able to ask them to leave for other reasons. For example, if the park becomes unusable by anyone other than protestors, they could essentially be asked to leave so that others could use the park. Or, if they were creating too much noise, sleeping in the park, or acting in other manners that might block the use of the park by other park goers or community members, these might indeed constitute violations of reasonable rules.<br />
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Finally, according to Professor Kayden there is little case law established on what constitutes “reasonable” rules when applied to privately owned public spaces, and certainly none about political protesters using those spaces, so there are no clear guidelines about how a court might rule if action was taken by the park’s owners. <br />
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In the end, the situation at Liberty Square may be shaped more by public relation issues than by the legal issues. Neither Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of the public space known as Zuccotti Park, nor the New York Police Department are likely to want to be perceived as initiating a crackdown against protesters that would be watched around the world and could potentially spark even larger protests.<br />
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Peter WalshPeter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-25744434209396192282011-09-30T12:54:00.002-04:002011-12-08T13:27:09.899-05:00Privately Owned Public Space? “Occupy Wall Street” Real Estate Questions<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainy Morning at Liberty Square: Occupy Wall Street HQ</td></tr>
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For almost two weeks hundreds of protesters calling themselves “<a href="https://occupywallst.org/">Occupy Wall Street</a>” have been camped out in an open air plaza located between Wall Street and the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. The protesters have set up information tables, a library, a General Assembly area, a kitchen, a media center and a space for protest sign making. Known as Liberty Square by the protestors and named Zuccotti Park by Brookfield Office Properties after its chairman John C. Zuccotti, the plaza is a “POPS”: a privately owned public space. <br />
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What’s a POPS and what does this mean for the protesters?<br />
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In the case of Liberty Square, Brookfield Office Properties owns the land and maintains the park, but the plaza is considered open to the public. The go-to reference here is the book “<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Privately-Owned-Public-Space/The-Municipal-Art-Society-of-New-York/e/9780471362579?itm=1&usri=privately%2Bowned%2Bpublic">Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience</a>”, by Harvard professor Jerold S. Kayden, which was published by the New York City Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society of New York in 2000. The <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/pops/pops.shtml">Department of City Planning website</a> also has some helpful background information. There are currently over 500 POPS in the city and they all are outgrowths of the 1961 Zoning Resolution (and various later amendments). The goal of that resolution was to allow real estate developers to build bigger than normally allowed by city zoning regulations (including, according to the DCP, “relief from certain height and setback restrictions”) and in exchange the developers have been contractually required to provide new publically accessible spaces.<br />
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Practically speaking, in 1968 Brookfield Office Properties essentially “bought” the right to build an additional 500,000 square feet of office space at its 54 story building One Liberty Plaza, just to the north of the park, in exchange for agreeing to build and maintain a public space. For some more on this deal see this recent <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/park-gives-wall-st-protesters-a-place-to-call-home/?scp=1&sq=zuccotti&st=cse">New York Times article</a>. <br />
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So what laws shape the use of Liberty Square/Zuccotti Park? <br />
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According to Professor Kayden’s book, when a POPS deal goes down, the developers agree to provide legally binding rights of access to members of the public in exchange for the value they get from the relaxation of specific zoning regulations. Can Brookfield Office Properties tell the protesters to get out? It all depends on what is in the various legal documents they signed with the city. <br />
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Calls are in to the NYC Department of City Planning and also to Professor Kayden and we hope to have more detailed information soon.<br />
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Special thanks to Geoffrey Croft of <a href="http://nycparkadvocates.org/">NYC Park Advocates</a> for the tip on Professor Kayden's book.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-14100855968609477192011-09-03T17:20:00.000-04:002011-09-03T17:20:09.712-04:00Session Nine: Gao Min and Peter Walsh<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gao Min and Peter Walsh on Wien Walk in Central Park, September 3, 2011. Photo by Wei Chen</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Shaded by the cool oak canopy of Central Park’s Wein Walk, artists Gao Min and Peter Walsh finished their exchange of drawings this morning – number fifteen in the ongoing series of portrait exchanges in the <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/">Central Park Portrait Exchange</a>. The session had been interrupted three weeks earlier when a brisk trade of art patrons prevented Walsh from beginning his drawing. Gao had a line of customers!<br />
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Sitting for his portrait this morning Gao laughed, “It’s been a long time since I’ve sat for someone else. It’s hard! When I was a student at art school in China we would sit for each other, but it’s been years.” Gao is a former art professor and former director of the Division of Western Arts in the Department of Fine Arts at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_University">Southwest-China University</a>, a large school located in Chongqing, China. Among his many achievements is his college level instructional art book “Color,” which has gone through 13 editions in China.<br />
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“I’ve been drawing in Central Park for sixteen years,” he says, “though mainly now I come on weekends. Aside from the extra money, I come because of the faces. So many faces to draw!” During the week Gao works in a commercial art studio. Trained in the realist drawing tradition (both Chinese and Western), Gao also paints at home and is experimenting with new works that he has yet to release to the public. To see older works, go to his website <a href="http://gaominart.com/">here</a>.<br />
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Some thoughts from Peter Walsh:<br />
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“Ouch. I try not to see the Central Park Portrait Exchange as a competitive form, but when my work is placed next to someone as talented as Gao Min, it’s hard not to feel the pain!<br />
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I was excited to complete this exchange because I had first met Min in New York State court in September of 2010 when we both testified against the New York City Parks Department by authenticating our videos of artists being abused by new park rules that forced them to sprint into Central Park at 6am every morning. Click <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/09/hearing-on-injunction-against-new-park.html">here</a> and <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/09/artists-peter-walsh-and-joel-kaye.html">here</a> for details. Min’s disturbing video was appropriately called “<a href="http://youtu.be/ErKznfN80pU">Artist or Race Cow?</a>”; mine was “<a href="http://youtu.be/5cbTEeEAAo4">NYC Mayor Bloomberg Forces Artists to Run for their Livelihoods.</a>”<br />
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That said, although my rough drawing of Min pales next to his elegant one of me, I did capture some part of a likeness of him. “It’s fine,” says Min, “you’re good enough to work here in the park if you wanted to. People will pay.”<br />
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I’ll take that as a thumbs up! Thanks, Min.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-62623721790878209022011-08-21T07:38:00.002-04:002011-08-21T08:53:27.908-04:00Whose Park Is It? Artist Lederman Arrested Protesting at Panel Discussion<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Lederman Protesting at Panel Discussion held at the Museum of the City of New York. Photo courtesy of "A Walk in the Park".</td></tr>
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Carrying a hand-painted sign that said “PARK PRIVATIZATION IS A REAL ESTATE SCAM - IT IS ALL ABOUT RAISING PROPERTY VALUES FOR THE MAYOR’S WEALTIEST FRIENDS,” artist Robert Lederman was arrested recently while protesting at a Parks panel discussion that featured New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and other supporters of the unelected “public/private partnerships” that increasingly control the administration of New York City’s parks. <br />
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Lederman is the president of the street artists organization A.R.T.I.S.T and is currently suing the Parks Department in Federal Court over new rules that restrict artists’ right to work in city parks.<br />
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Here’s the news coverage, including video of Lederman’s arrest.<br />
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Videos of the protest and arrest:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWooZKyDy0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAWooZKyDy0</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFWHAc_-XQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFWHAc_-XQ</a><br />
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<a href="http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2011/08/night-of-protests-at-museum-park.html">“Night Of Protests At Museum Park Funding Forum”</a><br />
A Walk in the Park, by Geoffrey Croft, August 13, 2011<br />
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<a href="http://parkslope.patch.com/blog_posts/which-park-is-it-anyway">“Which Park Is It, Anyway?”</a><br />
ParkSlopePatch, by Johanna Clearfield, August 12, 2011<br />
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<a href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/08/2945592/revenue-generating-park-good-thing-commissioner-benepe-says-it-depen">“Is the revenue-generating park a good thing? Commissioner Benepe says it ‘depends on who’s in charge’”</a><br />
Capital New York, by Dan Rosenblum, August 11, 2011<br />
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<a href="http://www.thevillager.com/villager_433/activistsis.html">“Activist is arrested at a panel about private funding for parks”</a><br />
The Villager, by Albert Amateau, August 11, 2011Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-70135705562160156452011-08-08T07:52:00.002-04:002011-08-08T08:06:38.324-04:00Session Eight: Amon Azizov and Peter Walsh<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amon Azizov on Wien Walk in Central Park. Photo Peter Walsh</td></tr>
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As he waits patiently for his customers in Central Park under Wien Walk's majestic oaks and plane trees - the mothers from New Jersey and Upstate New York bringing their tween children, the middle-aged tourists from Ohio, the young lovers from the Bronx - artist Amon Azizov feeds the squirrels peanuts from a bag.<br />
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Dressed in a denim jacket with the collar turned up against the sun and a cap riding low on his head, Mr. Azizov is prepared for a long day drawing in the open air. Every item in his kit, from the lightweight painting easel, to his worn brushes which sport just the right spring in the bristles, to the Velcro he uses to quickly transform his sample portraits of figures like Nelson Mandela into a workstation, suggests a man committed to using the fewest materials to achieve the highest ends. He has the aura of a sea captain or a mountain climber.<br />
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Originally from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he trained as an artist and was a member of the Soviet Union Artists Union, Mr. Azizov uses the “brush technique” like his fellow former soviet <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/07/session-four-artashes-karslian-and.html">Artashes Karslian</a> working just a few yards down the path on Wien Walk. “I’ve been working here in Central Park for about seven year now,” he says. Mr. Azizov and Peter Walsh exchanged portraits on Saturday morning, August 8th, 2011.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amon Azizov and Peter Walsh exchange portraits.</td></tr>
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Some comments from Peter Walsh:<br />
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“Amon and I were introduced by Artashes, who explained the portrait exchange to him in Russian. But I found his English to be quite good. He asked that I draw first and he second. My own drawing went quickly and I was able to catch a good likeness but make a rather bad drawing. I fell to some of the most basic errors of portraiture: I had trouble setting the eyes and I cropped the back of Amon’s head where I should have given it room. Being an amateur, I was rusty.<br />
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Amon took a bit longer to do his portrait of me, which is quite good and has the clean, airbrushed finish that the brush technique produces. First he laid in the over-all structure of my head and then he methodically dropped in each of the parts: my mouth and nose, then my right eye, then my left, then my left ear, then my shirt.<br />
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When he’s not doing portraits, Amon is a sculptor. “I’ve developed my own technique that relies on sheet metal. No clay or other sculpting materials,” he says. “For example, about two years ago a completed a 16-foot tall giraffe.”<br />
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I was pleased to learn that we live fairly close to each other in Brooklyn, Amon at the Newkirk stop on the Q train and me at the Church Avenue stop on the F. Not so surprising I suppose as the neighborhoods have many Russian speakers and communities from across the former Soviet territories. Between us lie several great Central Asian restaurants on Ditmas Avenue such as <a href="http://www.eatingintranslation.com/2009/03/caf%C3%A9-afsona.html">Restaurant Afsona</a> (Uzbeki) and <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-sim-sim-brooklyn">Café Sim-Sim</a> (Azerbaijani).<br />
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The drawings will be posted soon.<br />
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NOTE: I also began an exchange with Min Gao, a very talented Chinese artist who also shot some important video footage that has been used in court to defend artists working in New York City’s parks. But business picked up quickly and customers were waiting so I wasn’t able to do my portrait of Gao. We’ll complete the exchange soon.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-57854226744697316152011-07-27T06:14:00.003-04:002024-01-18T22:24:02.872-05:00Finally! A Video Post for the Central Park Portrait ExchangeFinally! Over a year into the portrait exchange and I've finally produced a video post for the blog.<br />
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What took so long? Too many stories to tell! <br />
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I've been struggling to sort out what needed to be said and to figure out how to keep a clean narrative that can convey the rich complexity of all that has been going on. There's the story of the portrait exchange itself. There's the story of the ongoing legal battle of artists versus the city and the Parks Department. There are the stories of each artist working in the park and my story as the organizer too. There are stories about drawing and the different portrait techniques being used. There's the story about where each artist came from and how they trained. And more.<br />
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In the end, I decided to start with the story I began with when I originally imagined the portrait exchange. What makes art valuable? What happens when two artists meet and engage each other in a reciprocal artistic exchange using the same materials at the same time and place under the same conditions? It's both a competitive and a collaborative situation. What will these portraits look like together as more and more exchanges are completed?<br />
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Here is the first of what I hope will be several videos.<br />
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My thanks go out to all the artists who have participated so far (and to those who will participate in the future too!). Also special thanks to Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra for their impressive video footage, to Louise Ma for her cheerful willingness to lend a hand and to help with Mandarin translation on the spot in the park, to all the photographers who have helped so far including Alex Ramirez-Mallis and to all my friends and allies who helped vet the video before I set it loose in the world, including Christopher Quirk, Hope Ginsburg, Deidre Hoguet and Emily Walsh.<br />
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Peter WalshPeter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-46796135097941020972011-06-30T11:33:00.000-04:002011-12-08T13:25:15.454-05:00Ai Wei Wei Confirmed as Central Park Portrait ArtistChinese artist and dissident Ai Wei Wei was confirmed today by the New York Times as having been a portrait artist in Central Park during his sojourn in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the same moment, New York City officials continue to <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/06/public-space-battle-in-nyc-grows-city.html">crackdown on artists</a> working in Central Park, directly across the street from where New York City Mayor Michael <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/arts/design/ai-weiwei-sculpture-near-plaza-hotel-review.html">Bloomberg himself unveiled Ai Wei Wei’s "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads"</a>.<br />
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In an<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/28/nyregion/for-chinese-artists-shattered-dreams-despite-freedom.html?pagewanted=1"> article from 1991 about the death of portrait artist Lin Lin</a> in Times Square, Times reporter Richard Bernstein, who identifies Ai Wei Wei as "a painter and sculptor who was one of the first young Chinese artists to come to this country" says "A typical day might include several hours in the afternoon drawing portraits in Central Park, Mr. Ai said. Then, a portrait artist might travel down to 34th Street to work for a few hours in the early evening outside Macy's. Later at night, he might venture over to Times Square, where, despite the dangers of the neighborhood, there are often many prospective customers late into the night."<br />
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Today's article on <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/a-chinese-dissident-views-new-york/?hp">Ai's New York City photos at the Asia Society</a> states "Mr. Ai worked as a street artist while he lived in New York, charging $15 to $25 for a portrait in Times Square." As usual, the Times, which has consistently taken the city's side in the current dispute between artists and the Parks Department, avoids stating that Ai worked in the parks, even though their own archive confirms it.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-41126522351722677302011-06-23T15:52:00.000-04:002011-12-08T13:27:09.900-05:00Brian Haw and the Fight for Public Space<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brian Haw (middle) with Peter Walsh (left) and Zuky Serper (right) at Parliament Square, London, November 2, 2004. Photo: Susan Kelly.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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Peace to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/world/europe/21haw.html?scp=2&sq=brian%20Haw&st=cse">Brian Haw</a> (1949-2011).<br />
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Coming up out of the tube into London’s bright mid-day sun, I wheeled my election cart up into Parliament Square, Big Ben’s Clock Tower looming over me as I struggled to get my bearings. Immediately I was welcomed politely to a patch of park sidewalk across the street from Parliament by a scruffy, sharp-minded man in a winter coat and a cap covered with political buttons like the hull of a ship is encrusted by barnacles. It was November 2, 2004, Election Day in the U.S. presidential election, and Brian Haw had already been on site for three years. Brian, armed with a cheap bullhorn and a forest of hand-lettered signs, was a one-person campaign against the Iraq War. He kindly gave me tips on the lay of the land as I set up a voting booth for <a href="http://www.plebiscite2004.org/">Plebiscite2004</a>, ostensibly an art project, that I had been running for about a month in the run-up to the election. <br />
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This post is not about that project or U.S. elections or the War in Iraq. Instead, I’d like to honor Brian as a defender of the right of ordinary people to make use of public spaces in vigorous, difficult and honorable ways, as opposed to notions of public spaces as being white-washed “neutral spaces” or “quiet zones” or even worse, public-private real estate to be sold off to the highest bidder. <br />
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Like the current and on-going court battle over artists’ rights to work and sell in New York City’s parks, Brian’s extended legal fight over his right to use a park sidewalk in London and to speak his views publicly gets at the heart of what we want democracy to be. For example, what does it mean that across the street from where Ai Wei Wei’s <a href="http://www.hifructose.com/the-blog/1542-ai-wei-weis-zodiac-heads.html">"Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads"</a> is now installed in front of Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has instituted a crack-down on artists’ ability to interact with the public. This is not meant to conflate the seriousness of Ai’s detention with the ability of a small group of artists to make a living, but rather to point out that the fight for public space and freedom of action is being played out across the world – in London as well as Beijing, in New York as well as Cairo.<br />
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It takes people like Brian Haw and Robert Lederman, the repeatedly arrested president of the New York City based street artists’ group A.R.T.I.S.T., being willing to fight on the street and in the courts to be able to keep the “public” in public space.<br />
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Every art action on the street entails a negotiation over the right to be there. On that day in London in 2004, Brain Haw used his experience to help me defend my own right to be there as City of London police officers pressured me to move. Literally I was given a choice: be arrested if I stayed on one side of a crack in the sidewalk, or be fine if I moved to the other side (in this case, into the jurisdiction of the City of Westminster). Here in New York for the same political art project, I had to get the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) to intercede on my behalf in order to set up in front of the Unisphere in Queens’ <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/vt_flushing_meadows/vt_flushing_meadows_park.html">Flushing Meadows Corona Park</a>. The street is the front line of the push between regular people and the authorities – no matter where you are. <br />
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For more on Brian’s life and times and his court battles, see these links:<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/world/europe/21haw.html?scp=2&sq=brian%20Haw&st=cse">Brian Haw, New York Times Obituary</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Haw">Brian Haw, Wikipedia</a><br />
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<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201162081348694801.html">Brian Haw, Al Jazeera Obituary</a>Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-85163322788494745702011-06-09T13:02:00.000-04:002011-12-08T13:18:58.167-05:00Public Space Battle in NYC Grows: City Actions Now Extend Beyond Artists to Include Musicians and NewspapersAs scorching summer temperatures hit Manhattan, sparring over what a person can do in New York City’s public parks has heated up too.<br />
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<b>In May</b> a panel of New York State Appeals Court judges allowed new park rules to go into effect, dramatically restricting where artists can work and sell in four busy city parks, pending the outcome of an artists’ lawsuit against the city’s Parks Department. <br />
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See: <br />
<a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202494374942&Panel_Finds_Vendor_Restrictions_Do_Not_Violate_Free_Speech_Rights&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1">“Panel Finds Vendor Restrictions Do Not Violate Free Speech Rights”</a> New York Law Journal, May 18, 2011.<br />
<a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/05/appeals-court-rules-against-artists-in.html">"Appeals Court Rules Against Artists in Dua v. City of New York Department of Parks Suit,"</a> Cental Park Portrait Exchange, May 18, 2011.<br />
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<b>Meanwhile </b>the Parks Department ordered it’s Parks Enforcement Patrol (PEP) officers to expand enforcement of restrictions beyond artist vendors to include musicians in newly created “Quiet Zones,” including near the crowded and popular Bethesda Fountain in the heart of Central Park.<br />
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See:<br />
<a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/please_clear_the_aria_5Ih5ZOpqdHAUPUKWmwK8xJ#ixzz1OnV0ytVe">“Musicians chased from Central Park,”</a> New York Post, May 28, 2011.<br />
<a href="http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2011/05/musician-crackdown-at-central-parks.html">“Musician Crackdown At Central Park's Bethesda Fountain,”</a> A Walk in the Park, May 29, 2011.<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/musicians-protest-quiet-zones-in-central-park.html">“No Radios by the Fountain, Please! Or Cellos!,”</a> New York Times, June 5, 2011.<br />
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<b>Concurrently,</b> Robert Lederman, president of the street artists organization A.R.T.I.S.T and an artist/plaintiff in a second suit against the city, in federal court, reports that new depositions of PEP officials confirm that sellers of newspapers such as the New York Times, New York Post and the Daily News are now officially banned from selling from temporary stands in parks such as Union Square. Those news-sellers would be forced to compete for the same restricted locations used by artists.<br />
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See:<br />
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/57395932/Why-Bloomberg-is-Eviciting-Newspaper-Vendors-From-4-NYC-Parks">“Why Bloomberg is Evicting Newspaper Vendors From 4 NYC Parks,”</a> Robert Lederman, June 8, 2011.<br />
<a href="http://www.thevillager.com/villager_424/artvendors.html">“Art vendors spots restricted at Union Square, High Line,”</a> The Villager, Volume 81, Number 2: June 9 to 15, 2011.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-23248948809104463692011-05-31T22:04:00.000-04:002011-12-08T13:18:58.169-05:00NYC Begins Crackdown on Musicians in Central Park<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The New York City Parks Department has begun a crack down against musicians<span> </span>performing at Central Park’s famed Bethesda Fountain, targeting a classical harpist, a father of nine singing spirituals and a double-bass player who loves Bach, <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/please_clear_the_aria_5Ih5ZOpqdHAUPUKWmwK8xJ">according to the New York Post</a>. </div><div class="MsoNormal">“Is this in preparation for a new 30 table bar/food concession the City is quietly planning to install five feet away?” asks the blog <a href="http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2011/05/musician-crackdown-at-central-parks.html">A Walk in the Park</a>.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The news comes on the heels of a <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/05/appeals-court-rules-against-artists-in.html">recent New York State appeals court decision</a> that removed a temporary injunction protecting artists and other expressive matter vendors working in four Manhattan parks from new park rules limiting their right to work and sell in public parks.</div><div class="MsoNormal">According to the Post, “When asked about the music crackdown, a spokesman for the Central Park Conservancy, the cash-flush nonprofit that runs the park for the city, said: ‘The fountain is a place for quiet reflection.’”</div><div class="MsoNormal">The battle over public space in New York City will continue soon in federal court as artists take their case back to a courtroom in the United States District Court’s Southern District of New York.</div>Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-50597603182850464442011-05-29T09:59:00.001-04:002011-12-08T13:18:58.170-05:005:55am: Sunday in the Park or Horse Race?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artists waiting to race into Central Park's Wien Walk, 5:55am, Sunday, May 29, 2011</td></tr>
</tbody></table>As the summer drawing season begins, the <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2011/05/appeals-court-rules-against-artists-in.html">removal of a court-ordered restraining order</a> blocking enforcement of new park rules is again forcing artists to fight for limited spaces in New York City's Central Park and three other Manhattan parks. This morning, with a 6:00am nod of the head from a Parks Department PEP officer, a dozen artists sprinted into Central Park's Wien Walk to secure locations. For video of the foot race shot last summer (July 2010), <a href="http://centralparkportraitexchange.blogspot.com/2010/07/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-forces-artists-to.html">click here</a>.<br />
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Then the waiting began again. The park goers and tourists who are these artists' dedicated fans and customers don't really begin arriving in any substantial numbers for about 5 hours. A long day gets longer with the new park rules.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artists waiting for customers in Central Park's Wien Walk, 7:15am, Sunday, May 29, 2011.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-75653356838991263382011-05-18T21:57:00.002-04:002011-12-08T13:18:58.171-05:00Appeals Court Rules Against Artists in Dua v. City of New York Department of Parks SuitA panel of judges from the Appellate Division, First Department of the New York State Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling by Justice Milton A. Tingling denying a preliminary injunction to the artist plaintiffs in the Dua v. City of New York Department of Parks suit. The unanimous decision vacates the current temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of a new set of Park Rules and is a setback for artists working in New York City's Public Parks.<br />
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The new rules will go into effect sometime this week, returning artists to the difficult circumstances experienced last summer between July 19, 2010, when the rules were first implemented and August 25, 2010, when Justice Martin Schoenfeld granted a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of those rules. <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/rules_and_regulations/rr_rules_regulations.html">Click here to see those Rules</a>, (Then click to the right on the link: "Adoption of Rule Amendments and Maps Regarding Expressive Matter Vending [as published in the City Record on June 18, 2010 - PDF, 781 KB]").<br />
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In making their decision, the five judges ruled that the plaintiffs "failed to demonstrate 'a likelihood of success on the merits' of their challenge to the subject regulations, since they failed to show that the regulations violated their rights under the New York State Constitution." To read the decision, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/55775851?access_key=key-2dklchhrw2csis98vj62">click here</a>.<br />
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<b>What next?</b><br />
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No word yet from the Dua artist plaintiffs, but we should know something soon.<br />
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Robert Lederman, President of the street artists' organization A.R.T.I.S.T., vowed today in an email blast to win his own suit in Federal Court against the City Parks Department, Lederman et al. v Parks Department. Mr. Lederman stated that that lawsuit "is proceeding according to schedule."<br />
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For an overview on the legal situation see this article in the <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202494374942&Panel_Finds_Vendor_Restrictions_Do_Not_Violate_Free_Speech_Rights">New York Law Journal</a>.<br />
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Or this article from <a href="http://awalkintheparknyc.blogspot.com/2011/05/temporary-restraining-order-lifted-in.html">A Walk in the Park</a>.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-49684570228784581572011-05-16T15:51:00.000-04:002011-06-11T19:49:23.729-04:00Drawings Installed!: Incident No. 42<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eEHqLtIDT6I/TdF-ANr8UjI/AAAAAAAAAFY/LqRTDHHhcw4/s1600/IR42Window.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eEHqLtIDT6I/TdF-ANr8UjI/AAAAAAAAAFY/LqRTDHHhcw4/s640/IR42Window.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installation of portrait drawings at the Incident Report Viewing Station in Hudson, New York. <br />
Incident No.42 includes the Round Robin (stage left) & Kristopher Perry (stage right). </td></tr>
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The <a href="http://www.incidentreport.info/id138.html">Portrait Drawing Round Robin in Hudson, New York</a> was a big success with seven talented artists donating their time and skill to creating a large grid of 49 drawings. As always with the Round Robins, the artists worked fast and furiously to complete the project in a reasonable amount of time. Each drawing was done in 7 minutes flat! Do the math and you will see that we squeezed the session into a grueling two hours of speed drawing. The drawings are now installed in the <a href="http://www.incidentreport.info/">Incident Report Viewing Station</a> at 348 Warren Street in Hudson.<br />
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Special thanks to the seven participating artists for their wonderful drawings and for their intense focus and good humor during the session. Also a round of applause is due to the Hudson Opera House for their generosity in allowing us to use their workshop space, to Max Goldfarb for inviting us to do the Round Robin in Hudson and to Christopher Quirk and Judy Garvey for their assistance during the session.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881349030535416562.post-30671852645588785342011-04-06T16:08:00.002-04:002011-06-11T19:49:23.731-04:00Drawing Leveled: Portrait Exchange Round Robin In Hudson, New York<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eLPk3bZcueM/TZzHyX3CCDI/AAAAAAAAAFU/zyzNERzcE5s/s1600/09Round+RobinUofTgroup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eLPk3bZcueM/TZzHyX3CCDI/AAAAAAAAAFU/zyzNERzcE5s/s640/09Round+RobinUofTgroup.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artists evaluating a portrait drawing grid at a Round Robin at Sculpture Center in Queens, New York.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The structure of the Central Park Portrait Exchange limits the participating artists to individuals working in the park and artist Peter Walsh, the Exchange organizer. If you've been itching to participate in a portrait exchange yourself, now's your chance! <br />
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Artist Peter Walsh is organizing his fourth Portrait Drawing Round Robin on Easter weekend at Hudson, New York's Hudson Opera House at the invitation of Max Goldfarb of the Incident Report Viewing Station. Too far away? Don't worry, there will be more Round Robins coming up.<br />
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What's a "Portrait Drawing Round Robin" anyway and how does it work?<br />
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Participants get together for a few hours to create portrait drawings of each other and construct a wall sized portrait “matrix” of the completed drawings: portraits of the participants shown horizontally, portraits by them vertically. <br />
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Lots of things go on in this process and the completed grids are truly mesmerizing. The Round Robins create a unique kind of group portraiture that turns the traditional power relationships of portraiture on their head.<br />
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Portrait Drawing Round Robin <br />
<span class="g"><strong><em> </em></strong> at Hudson Opera House<br />
</span><span class="g">327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY<strong><em><br />
</em></strong>Saturday, April 23rd, 2011, 4:30pm - 6:30pm<br />
518-822-1438<br />
info@hudsonoperahouse.org</span> <br />
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Click <a href="http://www.peterwalshprojects.us/RoundRobinPages/RoundRobinIndex.html">here</a> for details on previous round robins.Peter Walshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06013137070897132191noreply@blogger.com0