Photo: Hope and Promise by Jamel Shabazz. Photo by Luna Park. Courtesy of Art in Ad Places.
“People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are ‘The Advertisers’ and they are laughing at you,” Banksy wrote in his 2004 book, Cut It Out.
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People intuitively sense this kind of neg, their egos becoming more increasingly defensive and critical while simultaneously entertaining the lengths advertisers will go to win them over. In the court of public opinion, the attention we are willing to give them serves as costs paid.
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Art in Ad Places, a New York City public service campaign, understands this, and has taken the high road by transforming the landscape with public art. Every week throughout 2017, the organization partners with a contemporary artist, installing their works in payphone kiosks across the city in order to reimagine the way we see the world.
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Photo: Caterpillar by Mab Graves. Photo by Luna Park. Courtesy of Art in Ad Places.
Photo: HOODED by Myles Loftin. Photo by Luna Park. Courtesy of Art in Ad Places.