On a recent day, brightly colored artists' renderings were arrayed on easels across the front of the Town Council chambers, contrasting with the stony faces of the council members as they braced for the public's turn to talk.
Meanwhile, there are things worth examining here, including Michael Cline's oddly anachronistic, surrealistically enigmatic painting "Founder's Day"; tiny colored pencil drawings of erupting volcanoes by Violet Hopkins; Ralf Ziervogel's vast, finely inked cartoon titled "Young German Art," with hundreds of grotesque little people violently abusing themselves or one another.
The sun was never so part of the earth's essence and beauty as when its golden meniscus quivered at the edge of Arty's balcony, at the top of his sliding glass doors, and his condo, furnished at last with that marriage of wicker and cushions, filled with the light of a dying day, which colored the clouds and restored to the sky all the pastoral visions of the earliest era.
Sam's girlfriend is LaTonya Dinkins Felicia Wilsonn), flashing day-glo colored short shorts to match day-glo dangling earrings.
The plan was to remove as many as possible before the city's cleaning crews could clip them, store them in red, Valentine's Day-colored nylon bags, and, eventually, reattach each lock onto a public-art sculpture, a specially made "tree" to which all future love locks will be latched.
One day ivory-colored plugs that look like candle wax are plastered on the trunk, a sign the tree is pumping out resin to try to halt a drilling bug.
ABOUT 20 people were hunched over tables at the Museum Mile street fair on Fifth Avenue Tuesday evening, colored markers in hand, writing notations on a map, like seafarers planning a journey.
This is typical Depression fare: easy on the stomach and on the homemaker, to be poured straight from a can, and, in deference to the festive day, holiday-colored in red and green.
Unable to contain their collecting habit, the Scholls have branched out into installation work: the Day-Glo colored "Zobop" stairs to their second floor are by Jim Lambie, as is a door in the former "football" room, which now houses conceptual and video art.
Whether tossing Day-Glo colored marshmallows into each other's mouths, pouring phosphorescent paint onto drums in order to produce special "eruptive" effects (which are sometimes captured on a framed piece of canvas), or bringing a member of the audience onstage for an extended act of good-natured humiliation, Blue Man Group knows how to keep its audience wildly entertained.
On a recent morning, Ms. Mulvihill sat in a chair, arms extended, doing stretches with a Day-Glo-colored ball.
