Dear ARTIST members, I'm forwarding you the following very angry exchange about SoHo vending so that you can understand how an artist who doesn't sell there...
They are going to eliminate pay phones so as to make street furniture the exclusive place on public property for ads. Vendors, you're next. Daily News 12 13 04...
By Shelley Murphy, Boston Globe Staff | December 24, 2004 Strike up the band, pull out the magic tricks, and practice that mime routine: The shows will go...
Is your art display "congesting" a NYC park? Not if Mike Bloomberg and the Central Park Conservancy collect your art.... NY Times January 12, 2005 PUBLIC LIVES...
Con Artists By Robert Lederman For more than a decade elements of the SoHo Alliance have tried unsuccessfully to rid SoHo of street artists while posing to the...
The moral of the story below from today's Gotham Gazette is vendors cannot ever trust NYC officials. Whenever vendors forget this simple fact they get screwed....
NY Press 1/26 - 2/8 /05 http://www.nypress.com/ http://www.nypress.com/18/4/pagetwo/newshole7.cfm BLOOMBERG'S SIDEWALK SALE By Robert Lederman, President of...
[Please forward this to all artists who work in SoHo] The following letter was sent to me earlier today by a longtime SoHo street artist, LA Willette. LA had...
Below is another letter from an artist who lives in Gerson's district and feels betrayed by his lies. Below the letters are a few of many newsclips from The...
Feb 8 Committee(s) on: Consumer Affairs Time: 1:00 PM Location: Council Chambers - City Hall Chairperson(s): Philip Reed Details: Int. 390 - By Council Members...
First Amendment No Big Deal, Students Say U.S. National - AP 2/1/05 By BEN FELLER, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON - The way many high school students see it,...
Below is Larry White's letter attacking Gerson as it appears in this week's Villager newspaper. Below it is my response. Please read and understand both....
Never be taken in by the explanations city officials use to justify the need for new vending restrictions when they claim artists and vendors "commercialize"...
[NOTE to artists: In response to my request in 2003, Christo and his wife wrote a letter to Mayor Bloomberg asking him not to take action against street...
THE VILLAGER Volume 74, Number 40 | February 9 - 15, 2005 Street artists fear Gerson will paint them into a corner Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert Artist...
First Amendment Center http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=14807 News Story NYC transit photo ban proposal draws skepticism By David L. Hudson Jr....
Have an opinion on the proposed new restrictions aimed at artists or a question? Contact me at: artistpres@... Robert Lederman THE VILLAGER Volume 74,...
As the media slobbers over Christo's 23 mile long art installation in Central Park consider some facts that are being left out of the media coverage: 1. The...
[A NY Times article on street artists, vendors and The Gates follows my comments] Dear ARTIST listmember, I've got a question for you. It's been my experience...
The two letters below appear in the new issue of The Villager published today, 2/16/05 Want to help stop Gerson's plan to eliminate street artists from SoHo? ...
To whomever it may concern: I am a long time member of A.R.T.I.S.T. and I am vehemently against government at any level (reference Alan Gerson's proposals)...
Bloomberg Park Scandal by Robert Lederman How big of a hypocrite are Mike Bloomberg and the Central Park Conservancy (CPC), the elitist sponsors of Christo's...
This Christo/Central Park Conservancy/Bloomberg fiasco is taking on some amazing twists. Today, 2/17/05, a representative of Christo's German publisher...
Have you written to the Villager yet? This is how we can defeat Gerson's plan to eliminate street artists before he even makes his proposal in March. Address...
[SEE NY POST ARTICLE BELOW "THE GATES OF SELL" and Village Voice article on The Gates and Intro # 160 below that] NY Post exposes Christo threat against...
VILLAGE VOICE Closing 'The Gates' to Intro #160 Christo Challenges Bloomberg on Art in the Parks by James Westcott March 12 - 18, 2003 In February 2005,...
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