Apple Stand (“Big Apple” art exhibit, 2025)
New York City artist Olivia Rose did an “Apple Stand” art exhibit at Blankmag Books at 17 Eldridge Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, in November 2025. The exhibit was all about “The Big Apple,” New York City’s famous nickname. Many apples were engraved with pictures of the front pages of the New York (NY) Post newspaper.
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originalrose
November 10, 2025
APPLE STAND opens this Thursday Nov 13th, 6–9 PM at 17 Eldridge Street @blankmagbooks_nyc . Food by Chicken Darryl + Hard Apple Cider on deck. Zine, shirts, collectibles and art available for purchase.
APPLE STAND is my tribute to New York’s pomme de guerre, “The Big Apple,” told through ephemera, collected artifacts, and iconic tabloid covers, spotlighting one of New York’s defining talent: the art of the self-brand.
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mflorenzini
November 10, 2025
I got a sneak preview of Olivia Rose’s @originalrose show Apple Stand @blankmagbooks_nyc Opens Thursday the 13th.
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Kirsten Fleming
@KirFlem
Incredible work by artist Olivia Rose whose “Apple Stand” exhibit at 17 Eldridge St features iconic @nypost front pages on red Apples. It’s running thru nov 19. Gotta see these babies up close.
9:22 PM · Nov 13, 2025
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claytonles
November 14, 2025
Opening @blankmagbooks_nyc @livlern @kato_browne @93frankie23 @frankschopshop @frnksply @livingproofinc
(Video from the opening of the “Apple Stand” exhibit.—ed.)
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Quirky NYC artist celebrates the Big Apple with tribute to the biggest apple of all — The Post
By Asia Grace
Published Nov. 14, 2025, 6:30 p.m. ET
Olivia Rose spent most of Thursday morning knee-deep in Red Delicious apples.
The Manhattanite, an artist, was busy engraving 80 pieces of the produce with iconic New York Post front-page displays — from the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral crowning on Nov. 4 — for a Tribeca exhibition she called “Apple Stand.”
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Rose chose to spotlight the crisp, juicy delights in her ode to NYC after learning the roots of its eponymous nickname, which was a popular expression for jazz musicians in the 1920s and ’30s who moved onto bigger gigs — “Big Apples” like NYC, in other words — after working in smaller towns.
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nypost
November 15, 2025
Olivia Rose spent most of the morning of November 13 knee-deep in Red Delicious apples. The Manhattanite, an artist, was busy engraving 80 pieces of the produce with iconic New York Post front-page displays — from the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral crowning on November 4 — for a Tribeca exhibition she called “Apple Stand.” Full story at the link in bio. 🎥: @emmyparkphoto
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Upbeat
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM ·
Olivia Rose, a Manhattan-based artist and landscape architect, paid tribute to the Big Apple with a unique project called “Apple Stand.” The artist used a laser engraving machine to carve 80 Red Delicious apples with iconic covers from The Post. Rose explained that it’s her way of “collecting those stories and giving them back to the city.” The 80 pieces, priced at 50 dollars each, symbolize the city’s fingerprint.
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Mr Pål Christiansen
@TheNorskaPaul
Olivia Rose is an artist from Manhattan & been engraving apples with iconic #NYPost front-pages - from the assassination of JFK to Mamdani’s mayoral election - for a Tribeca exhibition she has called “Apple Stand.”😂
Carving covers into the crops she has harvested from an apple orchard upstate, she relies on an $8,000 XTool F2 laser-engraving machine, rather than a knife.
She picks her favorite layouts, uploading the images to a graphics editing system, retouching certain covers for laser precision & then shrinking each image down to 2” to fit onto the face of the apples.
She sells them for $50 each & actually really clever & I’ve added other examples in the comments. 👍 🍎
4:36 PM · Nov 24, 2025