Pittsburgh police finally got around to doing their part and started firing tear gas at activists this afternoon, thereby transforming the G-20 demonstrations into real protests worthy of photo ops and breaking news segments. |SkyNews|
Artist Dumps on Posh UES Gallery
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- “Yard” by Allan Kaprow
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- “Yard” by Allan Kaprow
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- “Yard” by Allan Kaprow
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- “Yard” by Allan Kaprow
Nearly 50 years his mountain of car tires and tarpaper was dumped in an art gallery’s backyard, a “reinvention” of Allan Kaprow’s “Environment Yard” has opened on the Upper East Side. The pile of 1,200 tires and body bags, created by performance artist William Pope.L, is the premiere show at Hauser & Wirth’s New York gallery, located at the site of Kaprow’s original installation, 32 East 69th Street. On view through October 24, the “Allan Kaprow YARD” exhibition also includes reinventions by artists Josiah McElheny and Sharon Hayes, a “massive photo projection at the Queens Museum of Art” and an installation of hand-painted signs at the New York Marble Cemetary respectively.
Photos by 16 Miles of String
A raid of an Italian mafia guy’s home turned up something rather out of the ordinary, even for a mobster: a crocodile! Authorities say that the beast, likely imported illegally from Latin America, was used to…wait for it…scare the living shit out of people! Antonio Cristofaro, the aforementioned mafia guy, was charged with illegal possession of animals, which could become the Italian equivalent of the American RICO statutes, apparently. |CNN|
New Yorkers don’t like their hand being forced, even if it’s their messiah who’s doing the forcing, and according to a new Marist poll: “Of registered voters across the political spectrum, 62 percent say that Obama should stay out of the governor’s race.” |DailyIntel|
You may recall last year when Randy Quaid and his wife Evi, a former Helmut Newton model, wreaked havoc on the Broadway production of Lone Star Love by bitching about everything, spying on his co-workers, and flashing his cod piece around constantly on stage, among other things, leading the show’s producers to shut the whole thing down during out of town previews. Quaid was also kicked out of the Actor’s Equity union for life and his wife had a restraining order filed against her by the private detective she hired to spy on her husband’s Lone Star Love castmates. Now the Quaids are wanted by the law for a string of incidents in which they allegedly stiffed pricey hotels by bailing without paying the bill. Read more »
Never ones to disappoint, nimble activists from Greenpeace repelled off Pittsburgh’s West End Bridge earlier today and hung a massive “road sign” style banner warning of “Climate Destruction Ahead.” It’s just one of many protests the environmental group has planned to coincide with the meeting of the G20. Fun fact: G20 member countries represent around 90 per cent of global gross national product and 80 per cent of world trade.
Photo by Greenpeace
No, this is no a painted apple. It’s some sort of apple genetic mutation, picked by a British man named Ken Morrish off of a tree in his garden. The Daily Mail reports that the apple has turned Morrish into a bit of a celebrity in his town and he’s now crushing all sorts of ass. Well, not really, but lots of people are coming over to his house to get a glimpse of his mysterious fruit. |Daily Mail|
A collective of medical weed proponents in LA are suing the city over a moratorium on dispensaries they claim is “unconstitutionally vague” and attempts to supercede state law. |LAT|
Not even CUNY’s nice schools are safe from the city’s nastiest bloodsucking insects: “John Jay College of Criminal Justice is shutting down one of its buildings because of bedbugs. The college hopes to reopen the building, at 445 West 59th Street, by Tuesday morning after it is treated by an extermination service.” |CityRoom|
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