“Here Be Dragons and the New York Times came together to capture the birth of a new large-scale street art installation in New York. Renowned French artist JR, famous for posting massive photographs in urban environments, attempts to create a poetic awareness of New York’s storied history as a city of immigrants. The monumental portrait was conceived as a cover for the New York Times Magazine’s Walking New York issue. The virtual reality experience, ‘Walking New York,’ was codirected by Chris Milk, JR and Zach Richter and takes viewers through the making of
the cover, a photograph of the 150-foot-tall portrait of a recent immigrant to New York City that was wheat pasted across the Flatiron pedestrian plaza.”