Tag: Brooklyn Bridge
German artists Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf, who claimed responsibility for swapping the Brooklyn Bridge’s American flags with flags bleached white, to U.S. officials at the U.S. embassy in Germany. According to CNN, they will be handed over to the NYPD today. The artists maintain that they had no anti-American sentiment in mind with their art project, and merely wanted to bring […]
Last night at around 7pm, protestors marched over the Brooklyn Bridge towards City Hall as a large Palestinian flag reading “Gaza. Boycott Divestment Sanctions” was unfurled from the Manhattan Bridge. The flag was removed by the NYPD approximately 30 minutes later. Reportedly 300 people attended the protest. The "no justice, no peace" chant has made it's […]
Although they gave the New York Times the exclusive on their alleged American flag-swapping endeavor on the Brooklyn Bridge, German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke have also put together a press package for media outlets following up the story. They’re calling the stunt an “art project” entitled White American Flags. Unfortunately, the zip file […]
Looks like Reverend Bud Green was full of shit. German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke came forward to the New York Times from Berlin, claiming that they took down the two American flags and replaced them with two flags bleached white last month. The artists are established trespassers and explorers who “investigate the boundaries of public space in urban environment through different […]
Alright already with the padlocks on the Brooklyn Bridge! The Department of Transportation has been busy removing them — “a whopping 5,600 latches from the 5,989-foot span” clipped off between July 2013 and May 2014. But the insidious trend (which already annoyed the shit out of Paris) continues. A particularly distressed Jen Jones at Women You Should Know recently spoke with […]
The NYPD really wants to find out who was responsible for installing two bleached-white American flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge, undetected, and is taking all sorts of measures to solve the mystery. NBC reports: “Investigators are running license plate numbers, scouring social media, examining cellphone transmissions and collecting DNA as part of their investigation…” The […]
Yesterday morning, New Yorkers noticed that white flags had mysteriously replaced regular American flags on the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. A continuing media frenzy ensued, with every publication taking a slightly different angle on the story, and the lack thereof. Initially, the Wall Street Journal wondered if it was “an art project, a political statement […]
This morning, it was extensively reported that the two American flags which typically sit atop the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge were replaced with white ones. According to a construction worker, they appeared to be bleached versions of the stars and stripes—think Jasper Johns. No one knows who put them there or why, but feel […]
What did you do for 4th of July? Fireworks? Barbecue? Too much video games? Whatever you did, you didn’t hold a candle to one man, who, in a dazzling display of freedom, independence, and the American spirit, rappelled down the side of the Brooklyn Bridge and didn’t even get caught by the cops. The Police are trying […]
Brooklyn Bridge is the Times Square of bridges. Here are a few artifacts that Joe America has left behind in the from of citizen graffiti, as well as local writers. Nothing particularly fancy. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
