A: Is for Art that makes a Statement!

Remember when you went to the circus and the clowns make you balloon animals? New York street artist Joshua Allen Harris has taken that art to a new level. His polar bears, dogs and giraffe are all making a splash on the internet, magazines and u-tube. Seeing the possibilities in subway exhaust, tape and garbage bags, Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate. Plastic bags and bottles do more than spread pollution, they also get you a lot of recognition. His plastic polar bear is the symbol of climate change! Churning out eco-art in the format of recycled and reusable plastic bags and scraps sewn into different shapes and displayed over subways are making a stand. The white polar bear (which looks like a puppy) has drawn a lot of attention as it springs to life as it inflates when the train passes. The animated creativity reminds onlookers the fate of these majestic bears as they face extinction threat owning to Climate Change and Global Warming. Ever since the polar bear became a hit with New York’s residents Harris has come up with more creative forms and figures including a Centaur, some mythical creates and a Loch-Ness monster too! Jump below and click on the videos to have a look at this amazing art form!

Starting October 20th through November 9th Zaha Hadid brings Chanel's Mobil Art Space to Central Park. Zaha Hadid is a world famous architecture firm who has created a spacecraft/ inflatable pavilion which will sit in the Rumsey Playfield, at 5th Ave and 69th Street. This mobile art exhibit is 7,500-square-feet of texhibits changing installations created by some of the leading international contemporary artists, such as Nobuyoshi Araki, the Blue Noses, Daniel Buren, Sophie Calle, Wim Delvoye, Sylvie Fleury, Yang Fudong, Subodh Gupta, Y.Z. Kami, Yoko Ono and Pierre & Gilles. The concept of the project was designed by CHANEL’s Karl Lagerfeld, as a way to display the iconic “2.55” leather handbag originally designed by Coco Chanel. Zaha Hadid was selected as the architect for her reminiscent style of Coco Chanel of today, not in fashion, but in architecture”. The shape of the 20-foot-tall pavilion derives its inspiration from natural and organic forms.
First opening in Hong Kong in February 2008, it is on a two-year global tour. After New York, Mobile Art has plans to go to London and Moscow. Placing a futuristic work of architecture and outstanding works of contemporary art in an historic setting in the heart of Central melds the vision of fashion, history and beauty.

Art that makes a statement is art that should be cherished. One makes a statement for ecology and the other blends culture, creating surprise from one continent to the other impacting our collective subconscious. Now this is art to be enjoyed and that is a F.A.C.T.