The Brooklyn Museum is showing off some new prints given to them by photographer Dash Snow and his dealer, Javier Peres. Expectedly, this latest body of work continues the artist’s long-running experimentation with semen and other adult themes. Read more »
Focusing on America’s consumer culture since after 9/11 when shopping was deemed patriotic, photographer Brian Ulrich shoots images of stores and shoppers in disparate states of glory and decay. On Thursday, Ulrich opens “Thrift and Dark Stores,” an exhibition of CopiaJulie Saul Gallery in Chelsea. The show opens from 6 to 8 PM and is on view through July 3 at 535 West 22nd Street. Click the images above for a selection from the photographer’s Thrift and Dark Stores series.
An interactive graffiti piece was installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney that features the work of filmmaker Lukasz Karluk and artists: KissKiss, DMOTE, Kid Zoom, Numskull, Ben Frost, Roach, John Doe, Bennet and Creon. The aptly named ‘Time Bomb‘ exhibit is a multimedia collaboration that captured artists on time lapse video painting a single canvass. The footage was then transformed into what’s creative accomplice KissKiss describes as a “fluid form of the painting which reveals the layers of work.” As for the interactive part, when people move around near the canvas, they can cause ripples. Whee!
Titan Worldwide, which sells potentially blinding ads on MTA busses as well as commuter trains and stations, came up $7.5 million short in mandatory payments to the cash-strapped MTA, citing a 25% drop in ad sales this year. “Warner Brothers came to us and said, ‘We want the same exact schedule as last year but we’re going to pay 20 percent less or you’re not going to get it.’” |NYT|
October’s New York International Art & Design Fair has been cancelled by London-based organizers Brian and Anna Haughton, who also canceled the Asian Art Fair in March and “almost certainly lost money” on their fine art fair at the Park Avenue Armory earlier this month. |ATG|
Watch as these soccer fans maintain the time honored tradition of acting fucking crazy and they’re not even in the stadium yet. From what we can piece together from Google translate, about 2,000 supporters from opposing teams converged outside the Monumental Stadium in Lima, Perui before a game on Sunday. Both sides became especially angered when the police arrived to stop them from throwing rocks at each other. They quickly found a common enemy and for 30 minutes battled the law, sending nine officers to the hospital and miraculously leading to only eight arrests. |LaVozdeGalicia|
Celebrity jewelers report that in an attempt to look rich during the recession, rappers are buying cheaper jewels, metals, diamonds and even cubic zirconias. Since the faux-bling dealers won’t name anyone, only recession rapper Rick Ross gets called out by 50 Cent: “Everything that you see has to absolutely be fake.” |WSJ|
With temporary bollards to ward off traffic and new street furniture to entice people off the sidewalk, parts of Broadway went car-free on Sunday. New Yorkers and tourists alike filled the newly pedestrianized spaces stretching seven blocks through Times Square and Herald Square. Contrasting the overwhelming support from people enjoying the public space, critics in cars bashed the change. “I think it’s really stupid. It’s going to mess up all the traffic in midtown,” one cabbie claimed. Read more »
Today, President Obama nominated Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayora as his Supreme Cout pick and its already got Conservatives in a tizzy. The right wingy New Republic is even going so far as to say she was only chosen because she has a vagina and can dance salsa: “This is someone who clearly was picked because she’s a woman and Hispanic, not because she was the best qualified.” |ThinkProgress|
With 124 guards watching them, nearly 200 prisoners will race the premier penal version of the Tour de France next month. Although the ride is intended to instill positive values, one convicted rider notably points out that “it’s a kind of escape for us, a chance to break away from the daily reality of prison.” |Guardian|
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