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Here are 3 videos from 26th Street yesterday in Chelsea. The press release describes the golf cart thusly:

Carzy Roy-Al is a customized golf cart that will be on display in our second gallery space. The cart will revolve tirelessly on a spinning platform, evoking a car showroom or late-night infomercial. “Enough to satisfy all your consumer whims and needs!” Scharf explains. Don’t miss Carzy Roy-Al and Kenny Scharf, KING of the 3rd annual Art Parade, on September 8, 2007 in Soho. Scharf will also take the car out in Chelsea on Saturdays, handing out donuts to all.

In the last video, the guys in the cart are engaging some people upstairs who are yelling at them for making so much noise. I know there are some recording studios on that street, so maybe they were trying to record some music.

I wonder if the artist and his minions had a permit for that? If someone at a political demonstration uses a bullhorn, the NYPD throws the person with it in jail right away. They make an exception if the person talks about religion a lot, somehow reasoning that it’s more “first amendment-y.”

“Time Flies” mural installation, photograph by Hrag Vartanian

Groundswell Community Mural Project’s annual benefit — drinks, snacks, and silent and live art auctions — happens at 511 Gallery in Chelsea next Tuesday. Come join us and say “hi!” If you would like to learn more about what they do, conveniently, we just published an ArtCal Zine feature by Hrag Vartanian on their latest mural in Bushwick.

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Apparently having a car wash at the end of the lap pool is a selling point.

Continuing the MTAA tribute theme, here are two photos I took at the MTAA world headquarters/studio on Friday night of this work, described as

“Some Group Assemble Required (SGAR)” is participatory sculpture first shown at the Good Bad Art Collective, Brooklyn in 2001 and again at the Cranbrook Art Museum in 2002. The work involves plastic models (originally multiple Dodge Chargers but now, possibly, B52 Bombers or Space Shuttles), hot glue, grey paint, a plywood table, beer and your company.

See more photos of the evening here.

video still from Michael Sarff’s “Kingdom” 2007

This is the cool place to be tonight. MTAA says:

Please join us for the launch of our once a month DIY exhibition space.

60 North 6th Street, 2nd floor
Brooklyn, NY, 11211
L train to Bedford Avenue
3 Blocks west on North 6th – just shy of Kent
(directions)

On the second Friday of each month, from 8PM to 11PM, the artist collective MTAA convert their N. 6th St. Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art.

The OTO project begins on October 12 with “Again Transporter,” new works by Michael Sarff. Michael Sarff, under the pseudonym Mark River, is half of the ongoing artist collaboration MTAA.

Upcoming shows at Over The Opening

November 09 – Marisa Olson
December 14 – Mikey Koller
February 08 – RSG

More information.

Update: Williamsburg galleries stay open late tonight too.

I snapped this at the opening of his show last night at Canada, and met his mother named Kik!

We have a painting with another version of this little creature here at home.

Riot was rocking the crown of thorns thing as she stands in front of “Girl in Water with Tussin” tonight at the 31 Grand opening of Adam Stennett’s show. It was standing room only, but I was able to look at the paintings enough to know that they are really beautiful and he has incredible technique. My favorite was “Girl in Bathtub.”