Filmed by Chris Mulhern, New York City based skateboard company 5BORO recently released their 2011 holiday clip. Things have come a long way, in terms of skateboarding short films. The video includes beautiful buttery footage from around various New York City neighborhoods. Oh yeah, and the skateboarding is pretty impressive, too. Check out the film after the jump. Thanks to our brothers at Rad Collector for turning us on to this.

Last Thursday, Chloe Early opened her exhibit “Feathers and Wax” at the Joshua Liner Gallery.

Working in oils on linen and aluminum panel, Chloe Early has developed a unique style that is simultaneously lush and raw. The romantic and the gritty meet in her paintings, which tease out a distinctively poetic worldview through the juxtaposition of extremes. At their core is a sensitivity to lyrical feelings and themes—love, beauty, innocence, softness—which collide with more worldly symbols of aggression and degradation, such as bullets, bombs, urban refuse, and ruins.

Chloe Early– Feathers and Wax
Joshua Liner Gallery
548 West 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
October 20 to November 19, 2011

More looks after the jump.

Photography by Jacob Breinholt for Curated.

In place of the JR mural that went up in June of this year, Faile has now taken over the notorious space on Houston Street, next to Billy’s antiques. The Brooklyn based troupe, Faile, is the latest of a long line of greats to put up work in that spot. Other recent pieces have included Kenny Scharff, Shepard Fairey and Os Gemeos. More looks after the jump.

Photography by Jacob Breinholt for Curated.

Japanese artist Yutaka Sone is currently exhibiting a piece titled “Little Manhattan” at the David Zwirner Gallery. Sone’s piece is a scale model of the island of Manhattan, carved from a single block of marble. The sculpture will be on display through October 29, 2011.

“Little Manhattan”
Sept. 20 – Oct. 29, 2011
David Zwirner Gallery
533 West. 19th St.
New York, NY

More looks after the jump.

On the heels of her private installation at Primary Wave, Olek opened a solo show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery last Thursday entitled “The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal.” The exhibition includes Olek’s interpretation of various famous pieces ranging from the work of Picasso to that of Banksy. Olek also mixed up the color scheme a bit this time around. Instead of exclusively using the brilliant pinks and purples, she created several pieces in a monochromatic camo.  More looks after the jump.

August 10—27, 2011

Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011

Photography: Jacob Breinholt for Curated

Considering that the Bowery is essentially the cradle of NYC tattooing – consider that legends Samuel O’Reilly and Charlie Wagner occupied 11 Chatham Square for near on 70 years – it is a great delight to see top quality tattooing resume in the area. Kings Avenue has opened a new location in the thick of gentrification. A slice of old New York in the midst of new.

Full press release and examples of work by the super talented Mr. Mike Rubendall after the jump.

Opening tomorrow, RE:FORM SCHOOL brings art to a recently closed Nolita school (I know, a bit too much NoLita this morning) in support of American School reform.  The pop-up gallery will be open to the public over the course of the holiday weekend (i.e. through October 11, 2010), showcasing works by the likes of Shepard Fairey, Chris Johnson, Jo Jackson, Swoon, Ron English, FAILE, Maya Hayuk and WK Interact.

Above: Re:form School Pushpin Animation by Nicole Emmons and Danielle Ash.

Full information about the event after the jump.

My buddy Tim Brodhagen hit the Nixon Art Mosh with the ICU last week. His report gets at the full scope of the event.

“The Nixon Art Mosh landed in New York City once again bringing together the unique mix of art, photography, music and action sports that the event has become synonymous with. In the latest episode of Highsnobiety TV we tour Art Mosh’s Chelsea location and speak with the artists and personalities behind the Art Mosh movement. Check out interviews with Mos Def, NinjaSonik, Ray Barbee, Ellen Stagg, Michael Halsband, Mark Cunningham, Danny Davis, Kassia Meador and more on the first stop of the event’s second tour around the globe.”

Some of you may have heard of David Byrne in association with Talking Heads, others because of his recent conversion of the Battery Maritime Building, a century-old ferry terminal in Manhattan, into a giant instrument.

Now Wallpaper reports about him getting together with the NYC Department of Transportation. The artist got together with the Department to create overall nine bike racks that are installed in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

"Byrne submitted ideas to the DOT of graphic shapes, inspired by specific locations throughout the city: the Ladies Mile (a high heel), the Villager (a dog), the Wall Street (a dollar sign) and so on.

The functioning racks came about when Byrne was chosen to be on the panel for an open competition held by the DOT for people to design novelty bike racks. Byrne himself sent in his series of drawings as examples and the DOT replied saying they’d happily install them. The designs were realised in the same square-shaped piping that the regular NYC bike racks are made from so people would identify them as bike racks rather than public art.

The racks have become minor landmarks in themselves. Up for just a year, they’re then going to be sold through Pace/MacGill Gallery, who represent Byrne’s artistic endeavours."

On your next NYC trip you might want to consider taking a David Byrne bike rack tour!

Yesterday, NYC"s Bicycle Film Festival kicked off. This weekend, the festival celebrates all aspects of bikes via art and film. A number of events are scheduled and the festival siteoffers a comprehensive introduction to all the fun. Check it out here, and take a look atthe main flier after the jump.