NYC///ART FREAKS ON PARADE…

September 11th, 2007

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In downtown NYC the freaks come out during the day, especially when the annual DEITCH PROJECTS ART PARADE (in association with Creative Time and Paper Magazine) comes to town. Beginning at Houston St this past Saturday, September 8th, the mile-long conga line of freaks, geeks, hipsters, and artists including ESPO, Tauba Auerbach, Friends With You, EV Day, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Asuka Ohsawa, and Kenny Scharf (the parade’s first “King”) made its way down West Broadway to the gallery on Grand Street in a procession of floats, portable sculptures, costumed dance troupes, and painted ladies that made even the most hardened winos take pause. Luckily, our man on the scene ERIK FOSS (aka: Stuntboy) made the scene, camera in hand. HAVE A LOOK:

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Paper Magazine’s sugar daddy, David Hershkovits is pretty in pink…

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The Cobrasnake slithers up to Paper Mag’s Kim Hastreiter…

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