Parting Shot: Open Season
Holiday spirits and New Year’s resolutions mean nothing to Bugs and Daffy, who continue their beef on the street.
Photo by Jake Dobkin
It wouldn’t be right to end the year without Skillz’s annual “Rap Up.” Listen to the ’09 version over here or download it now before it disappears back into obscurity like its author. Bonus: Links to almost a decade’s worth of previous ones after the jump. |Nah Right| Read more »
Here’s everything you’ll ever need to know about the new, more eco-friendly Times Square ball that is scheduled to drop into the belly of the beast at midnight. IInhabitat|
For her latest piece of her ongoing project, Daily Drop Cap, artist Jessica Hische has set out to bring some textual healing to the world. Each day, as advertised, the New York based typographer and illustrator posts a new hand-crafted illustrative initial. Read more »
PR Award of the Year Goes To…Weed
What a year it’s been for medical weed. No other substance has enjoyed such a huge amount of favorable press across a wide spectrum of media outlets, even managing to look good on traditionally slanted networks like Fox, repeatedly. Equally impressive, are the string of political victories on the local, state, and federal level. There’s been so many positive mentions that Americans may even finally be warming up to the idea of regulating the good herb like alcohol and booze, which is good for patients and partygoers alike, as well as the economy, as it can generate lots of much needed revenue. Let’s take a quick look back at the public relations coup that the ganja pulled off in 2009. Read more »
Who’s Having Their Period Today?
Twitter gives the world access to people’s most mundane details and it’s amazing how many women love to announce to the world that, yes, they’re on the rag. Here are today’s brave, bloated over-sharers. Read more »
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- “Planet X” by Stephanie Gutheil
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- “Ol Mischtechnik Leinwand” by Stephani Gutheil
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- “Kopftheater II” by Stephani Gutheil
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- “Wasserman” by Stephani Gutheil
Massive piles of shit, goat-headed monsters, intestinal explosions and other atrocities speckle the canvases of Stefanie Gutheil. Drawing inspiration from her “excessive imagination” and caricatured neighbors, the Berlin-based artist layers these pieces with paint, fabric and pieces of metal. Next month, Chelsea’s Mike Weiss Gallery will unveil a selection of Gutheil’s scenes, some dreamlike, others nightmarish, with the opening of “Kopftheater,” which translates to “theater of the mind.”
“Kopftheater,” January 14 – February 20, Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 West 24th Street
Not surprisingly, the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at a U.S. base in Afghanistan yesterday that killed 8 CIA agents. The bomber somehow snuck onto the base and detonated his bomb-vest inside of the compound’s fitness center. |LA Times|
Artist Sends First Palestinian To the Moon
Next month, artist Larissa Sansour will unveil an exhibit at Jack the Pelican Presents centered around the theme of launching the first Palestinian to the moon. It will include a showing of her latest film, A Space Exodus, described as a Middle Eastern adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Read more »
Remember yesterday when Dick Cheney basically called Obama a huge gaping vagina because he doesn’t go around constantly trying to strike the fear of God into people over terrorism like the Bush/Cheney folk did so well? Well, uncharacteristically, the Obama White House hit back. Hard. Read more »
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