Our Gallery Insider is on vacation this week, so to help her out, we’ve enlisted artist and photographer Michael Neff (whose work is pictured above) to give us the lowdown on gallery openings this week. After the jump, Michael tells us about David Shrigley, the Hunter MFA Thesis Exhibition, the NY Photo Festival, and Andrew WK.

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Tired of seeking out fun new activities for you and your crew? Let the activities come to you! My social life would be nonexistent if not for the plethora of e-mail alerts I receive every week in my inbox.

One of my longtime favorite lists is Hipster Travel, written by my pal Evan, who I met years ago at an (now defunct) organized social drinking club. (Don’t judge - it’s where I met all my NYC friends!)

Sign up for Hipster Travel and you’ll be sent a weekly e-mail that is chock full of activities, ranging from gallery listings and dance parties to food festivals and free alcohol events. Evan searches for the week’s best offerings and compiles them into one massive e-mail that usually takes me 10 minutes to read. (Mostly because I’m adding so many events to my calendar.)

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As Anthony mentioned in his last post, neighborbee hired artist Hani Shihada to draw the neighborbee logo on 115th and Broadway in the Columbia University/Morningside Heights neighborhood.

The neighborbee marketing team took some photos and video of the event, which we’ve edited together to show you how the whole thing unfolded. Enjoy the video below, and stop by and see the art if you’re in the neighborhood!

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Over the past week, there’s been a lot of press surrounding street artist Keith Haring, whose 50th birthday would have been on May 4th. Haring died from AIDS-related illnesses in 1990 at age 31 and devoted his life to creating art in public spaces around New York City, living up to his belief that art should be accessible to all.

I first remember seeing Keith Haring’s artwork as a teenager in the early 1990s, when it was animated for MTV’s use in public service announcements about AIDS, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was at an all-time high.

For your own tour of Keith Haring artwork around NYC, start here at neighborbeeblog! Last week I wrote about walking tours. In keeping with that theme, here’s where you can stroll about and see Keith Haring’s work –for free– all over New York City.

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Hello Bee fans!

neighborbee is hosting its first marketing/community event this Saturday, May 10th! We hired a local artist, Hani Shihada, to draw our logo in front of Columbia University (113th and Broadway) from 1pm to 3pm.

Mr. Shihada has been executing his unique form of art all over the world for almost 20 years. His portfolio includes pieces created for corporate and institutional use, private collections, films, retail decor, and public art. His beautiful work has been covered in The New Yorker and New York Times, as well as publications in Japan and Miami. In fact, the residents of Miami Beach love his work so much that he was made an honorary citizen of the city.

Members of the neighborbee team (including myself) will be at the event, handing out honey sticks and introducing neighborbee to members of the community. Morningside Heights is going to be neighborbee’s original launch neighborhood, so we thought it was only appropriate that we spread the word there first!

We’d love to see you, so please stop by– and bring your friends!

Cheers,

Anthony

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At last, I’m back to my duly appointed rounds in the art world. This week I took time out of my busy schedule of posing for statues and writing beautiful love poems, and went to see Lots of Things Like This at Apex Art . The show was curated by Dave Eggers of McSweeney’s and A Heart Breaking Work Of Staggering Genius fame, which is no small footnote to make. As a writer he’s good, but as an organizer and editor he’s phenomenal. He has an fantastic eye for mixing art and comedy, just like how I have an eye for the finer things in life like RingDings and smooth jazz music.

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As cities go, New York is pretty good in terms of public art. Sure, historically there have been some issues—Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc was removed from the financial district in the 1980’s for a litany of absurd reasons, but the city also allowed Cai Guo-Quiang (currently having a retrospective at the Guggenheim) to explode fireworks in a ring above Central Park, and Roxy Paine’s conjoined gleaming silvery trees brought a bit of wonder to the bleak landscape of Madison Square Park in winter.

This July, Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, in cooperation with The Public Art Fund and NYC, is bringing a spectacular new project to Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan—4 waterfalls. Some spewing out of tall scaffolding, and one, sure to be my favorite, will be cascading from beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. A waterfall coming out of a bridge—how crazy can you get?!

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It seems that beautiful weather is here for good, so there’s no better time to walk from gallery to gallery in search of the best art, best people watching, and best open bar. This week, our anonymous Gallery Insider gives the rundown on events celebrating the work of Louise Lawler, Stuart Hawkins, Delia Brown, Christopher Wool, Robert Therrien, Neo Rauch, and Anish Kapoor.

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Takashi Murakami’s work is not the first to cross industries–industrial production, advertising, fashion, and, oh, yes, art.  The thing is, in this day and age, Murakami’s work is the epitome of what an artist’s career can become–an all-encompassing practice created by a team rather than the sweat of a single individual. While some may take issue with this method of art making, when you look at Murakami’s work you realize that it must truly take an army to achieve the sheer volume and material perfection his work exhibits at every turn. The collaborative effort to realize a single vision is very much a historical concept; how else would Henry Ford have built the first car, any cathedral have been created, or Baron Haussmann created airy avenues through the medieval rat-maze of Paris.  Murakami’s work is just another significant chapter in this lineage.

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There’s a spring chill in the air this week, which means that you should probably a.) drink for free and b.) go someplace inside. Combine both of those and you’ve got yourself some gallery openings! Our Gallery Insider is an anonymous gallery employee, and she’s here to give you the inside scoop on where to go and what (and who) to see each week. After the jump, our Insider opinion on Josephine Meckseper and David Altmejd.

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