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The Standard Gets Scary

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It’s a Kenny kinda day. You can hang with Scharf’s Red Scary Guy, originally shown at Paul Kasmin Gallery, while sipping cocktails outside of the Standard High Line until the [...]

Kenny’s Sunshine

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A ray of sunshine amidst the sadness that can be at a hospital for kids, is Kenny Scharf’s smiling flowers and butterflies. Painted across a sprawling rotunda in 2011, Scharf’s [...]

Nara n Niagara

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The closest that I’ll probably get to a real Yoshitomo Nara piece is at a bar in the East Village- only a thin layer of plastic separates my grubby hands [...]

Scharf on Norfolk

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Tucked down on a quiet block of Norfolk Street (this and the blocks east of it are my favorites on the Lower East Side) is a trippy swirling public mural [...]

Scharf’s Squirtz

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There’s just one more week to check out Kenny Scharf‘s sculpture, Squirtz, at The Standard High Line. The eight foot piece is a sculptural representation of Scharf‘s iconic characters that [...]

The Palladium

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Another take over by NYU (who are slowly owning this whole city), was New York’s most famous nightclub, The Palladium. The one time concert hall was built in 1927 and [...]

Kenny Scharf’s Roll Down Gates

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Kenny Scharf is a New York institution! Aside from throwing awesome parties, being an awesome dude and a celebrated artist, Scharf has given back to  this great city, and gone [...]

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