... Dear Mr. ...., The officer is 100% wrong. Based on our 2001 Federal court case, artists need no Park permit. For proof that artists need no permit in any...
[NOTE: FOIL requests are the main way to force NYC agencies to give up information on vending laws, enforcement etc] NY Times July 2, 2007 Survey Finds Action...
Visual image fatigue as an explanation for bad art sales by Robert Lederman Here's a theory of mine in response to the question: Why are art sales so bad in...
There are now hundreds of websites similar to Youtube where anyone can post videos. This page http://www.ovguide.com/ has links to most of them. Under the menu...
[I want to add an unconfirmed note to this NY times article on police survelliance. It has been reported to me that an undercover NYPD officer was posing as a...
Last Sunday I complained to some SoHo street artists about them playing music (guitar, drums and harmonica) and singing on the street at 8 AM. That's 8 AM,...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCstreetfurniture/ Interested in understanding the City of New York's sinister plan to privatize all public space with an...
re: firefighters video debunks Giuliani myth The firefighters video is a brilliant and long overdue job of telling the story the media covered up since 9/11....
enforcement heads up.... According to reports from the scene, earlier today, Friday 7/13/07, 9 NYPD officers and a lawyer for the NYPD went through Union Sq...
Bloomberg attempt to privatize traffic access below 86th St fails... This would have had a very bad financial effect on street artists, both due to their own...
UPDATE: Plan to destroy street artists rights by Robert Lederman Yesterday 7/19/07 Councilmember Gerson held his latest meeting with vendors concerning his...
Even if you can't attend this rally, please take a moment to sign the petition. I'm out of town but I just signed the petition and previously emailed my...
Is it illegal to set up under a scaffold? In response to this often repeated question... Many artists have been threatened or summonsed by the NYPD for setting...
Why put signs on your display? Every living thing on this Earth has a means of self defense. Many use colors, odors or body language to "warn" predators or...
Dear members of ARTIST, There is still time to be heard on this. The permit for photography rule will not become law until after August 3. If it passes this...
Two articles of interest from today's NY Times... One on quilt art (a good example of an art form the NYPD, DCA and Parks Dept would very likely not consider...
Chances are if you sell in SoHo you know the collector who put on this show... http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2007/07/28/entertainment/dpt-gallery27.txt ...
See Associated Press article below comments on how NYC is about to institute a permit requirement for photography... Please take a moment to think about the...
From the opening page of the Mayor's Office of Film... http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/index/index.shtml ... which occurred on July 18 and the ensuing...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/advisories/wkndtraf.html Weekend Traffic Advisory Friday August 3, 2007 to Sunday August 5, 2007 As part of its...
GOOD NEWS City Agrees to Rewrite Proposed Rules on Photography Permits Congratulations to every ARTIST member who wrote the Mayor's Office of Film on this,...
Two interesting arts articles from todays Times... NY Times August 4, 2007 An Artist and His Sub Surrender in Brooklyn By RANDY KENNEDY At slack tide off Red...
NY Times August 11, 2007 With Fixtures of War as Their Canvas, Muralists Add Beauty to Baghdad By STEPHEN FARRELL BAGHDAD, Aug. 10 Dead blocks, they call them,...
NOTE: Whether street artists are exposed near their homes or sell in an area that has been sprayed with these poisons they are being affected. Be especially...
Phone booth advertising kiosks-NY Times [Interesting how the NY Times publishes the article below, seemingly an attack on sidewalk advertising, yet fails to ...
China Business Jan 5, 2007 Turning canvas into cash in China By Robert Hartmann HONG KONG - As the Chinese become increasingly affluent, a market for art is...
Nevada street artist wins appeal case modeled on ARTIST cases Nevada artist Steve White is to be congratulated. He spent years fighting to win the same rights...
The National Lawyers Guild report on government tactics to chill freedom of speech (see link below) has just been released. Well worth reading if living in a...
