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Here's a color image of the new Rivington St. work by street artist Swoon. The photo was shot at night, hence the yellow-orange tint to the image.

Background Note
There's some fresh work by the artist Swoon on Rivington St., between Bowery and Chrystie, in that interzone between Nolita/Soho and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Brooklyn-based Swoon is our favorite New York street artist. This work, which depicts an African-American boy with first pumped, continues Swoon's series of life-size cut-out wheat-paste images of people engaged in everyday activities on the streets of the city.

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There's some fresh work by the artist Swoon on Rivington St., between Bowery and Chrystie, in that interzone between Nolita/Soho and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Brooklyn-based Swoon is our favorite New York street artist. This work, which depicts an African-American boy with first pumped, continues Swoon's series of life-size cut-out wheat-paste images of people engaged in everyday activities on the streets of the city.

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Here we've got the work of several street artists and writers, including that of a couple of the underground's brightest stars - Shepard Fairey and Swoon. Here's the breakdown: The black-and-white motorcycle cop paste-up holding the Andre the Giant icon is the work of Shephard Fairey (of Obey / Giant Has a Posse, Swindle Magazine, etc.). The wheat-paste paper cut-out of the man on the bicycle is by Brooklyn artist Swoon. Underneath are some wheate-paste cut outs and tags of several other artists and writers. Nice to all this work serendepitously aggregated in one location in downtown Manhattan.

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Swoon is a New York City street artist whose work is instantly recognizable to residents of certain neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, where much of her work can be found. Last Friday, Swoon and her art were featured in a lengthy New York Times' article by Kirk Semple about street art. Though Swoon's work gets it widest exposure via the exterior nooks and sides of buildings in SoHo, Chinatown and the Lower East Side, she is an accomplished, professional artist who has exhibited her art at galleries in the United States and Europe. These images of Swoon's work on Ludlow Street just north of Canal St. in the Lower East Side depict children playing ball. (See Kids Play 1 and Kids Play 2.) Swoon's brilliant and original works are meticulous, life-size paper cutouts of people slapped up with wheat paste on blank walls. As noted on this Web site previously (See below: Street Art by Swoon | 03.31.04), the images are sometimes illustrated on, and carved out of, Chinese newspapers and show people engaged in everyday activities at street level.

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Swoon is a New York City street artist whose work is instantly recognizable to residents of certain neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, where much of her work can be found. Last Friday, Swoon and her art were featured in a lengthy New York Times' article by Kirk Semple about street art. Though Swoon's work gets it widest exposure via the exterior nooks and sides of buildings in SoHo, Chinatown and the Lower East Side, she is an accomplished, professional artist who has exhibited her art at galleries in the United States and Europe. These images of Swoon's work on Ludlow Street just north of Canal St. in the Lower East Side depict children playing ball. (See Kids Play 2 and Kids Play 3.) Swoon's brilliant and original works are meticulous, life-size paper cutouts of people slapped up with wheat paste on blank walls. As noted on this Web site previously (See below: Street Art by Swoon | 03.31.04), the images are sometimes illustrated on, and carved out of, Chinese newspapers and show people engaged in everyday activities at street level.

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Swoon is a New York City street artist whose work is instantly recognizable to residents of certain neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, where much of her work can be found. Last Friday, Swoon and her art were featured in a lengthy New York Times' article by Kirk Semple about street art. Though Swoon's work gets it widest exposure via the exterior nooks and sides of buildings in SoHo, Chinatown and the Lower East Side, she is an accomplished, professional artist who has exhibited her art at galleries in the United States and Europe. These images of Swoon's work on Ludlow Street just north of Canal St. in the Lower East Side depict children playing ball. (See Kids Play 1 and Kids Play 3.) Swoon's brilliant and original works are meticulous, life-size paper cutouts of people slapped up with wheat paste on blank walls. As noted on this Web site previously (See below: Street Art by Swoon | 03.31.04), the images are sometimes illustrated on, and carved out of, Chinese newspapers and show people engaged in everyday activities at street level.

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This is the work of the New York-based artist Swoon, whose street art can be found plastered on buildings throughout downtown Manhattan neighborhoods like SoHo, Chinatown, TriBeCa and the Lower East Side. Usually Swoon's images depict people engaged in some street-level activity. Here a man is riding a bicycle. The pictures are typicaly drawn and painted over old newsprint, usually local Chinese newspapers, and then plastered onto some exterior surface. Another one of Swoon's famous images shows a guy sitting on a milk crate.