{"id":941,"date":"2019-10-08T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/?p=941"},"modified":"2020-10-22T03:53:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:53:28","slug":"it-makes-you-want-to-look-up-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/it-makes-you-want-to-look-up-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"IT MAKES YOU WANT TO LOOK UP, The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"941\" class=\"elementor elementor-941\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-65f03de8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"65f03de8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c9df158\" data-id=\"5c9df158\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f94e8f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f94e8f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;It makes people look up&#8221;: the street artists taking over scaffolding.<\/h2>\n\n<p>Construction work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York<\/a> City is practically a proverb \u2013 there\u2019s always loud drilling and banging on a set of scaffolding somewhere.<\/p>\n\n<p>But while New Yorkers might see the green-painted plywood construction slabs practically everywhere \u2013 the city has over 300 miles of street-level construction \u2013 one initiative is hoping to beautify the blahs and paint them red, yellow, blue and green with the help of some local artists, for a new project called <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/dcla\/publicart\/citycanvas.page\">City Canvas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Strangely, it isn\u2019t on canvas, but wood. 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