85-year-old Anthony Marshall, who was recently convicted of stealing millions from his mother Brooke Astor’s estate in her final days, has been sentenced to one to three years in prison, though legal experts think he’ll only spend eight months in the clink. Maybe he can swap swords with Bernie Kerik on the inside. |NY Times|
In a shocking move of bravery on behalf of a historically spineless City Council, the legislative body says it will override Mayor Bloomberg’s grace period veto for parking violations. |DNAinfo|
The Brooklyn Academy of Music tauntingly times one of their brightest exhibitions for the dark days of winter. Next month, artist Penelope Umbrico will unveil “5,537,594 Suns From Flickr,” an installation of solar shots appropriated and cropped off the photo sharing website. Like other collections by the Brooklyn-based artist, from TV reflections on Craiglist to broken monitors on Ebay, “Suns from the Internet” is an ongoing project as the internet continues producing piles of strikingly similar photos.
“Leonards for Leonard & 5,537,594 Suns From Flickr (Partial) 5/30/09,” January 6 – March 14, 2010, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Detail of “Suns From Flickr” by Penelope Umbrico
We’re not really sure how playing “Seal Slalom” is going to help save baby seals from brutish, mass slaughtering Canadians, but PETA is convinced otherwise. Armchair activism at its worst? Yes! |PETA|
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 »
In January, artist Michael Landy will reopen South London Gallery as a dumpster for the arts. The British artist, known for pulverizing all his possessions in his 2001 “Break Down,” will curate a collection of unwanted works as a “monument to creative failure.” Over the course of six weeks, Landy’s 2000-cubic foot “Art Bin” will be filled up with the best of the worst art submissions and then destroyed.
Image via South London Gallery
Although it’ll take months to deploy 30,000 additional US troops into Afghanistan, the military has already dispatched a deadly fleet to the theater of combat: drones. Hopefully these aren’t the easily hackable ones. |AP|
Banksy has offered up some new work for London street art preservationists to fight over. Not long after last illicit piece was cut down and spirited away by hopeful collectors, the elusive artist has painted four works along Regent’s Canal in Camden that include a dapperly dressed rat, a boy fishing for sloppy tags, and the waterlogged declaration, “I don’t believe in global warming.” Banksy also appropriated a decades old ROBBO piece for another painting which manages to wipe out some 80′s-era graffiti and ugly grey buffs all at once.
Photos by Romanywg
Did you vote for your favorite charity via J.P. Morgan Chase & Company’s Facebook contest? Us either, but if you know someone that did, it was a total fraud. At least three groups who were ranking “among the top 100 vote-getters” were disqualified by last minute changes in the rules reports the New York Times. Read more »
Oh hey did you hear the Senate passed a health care reform bill last night at 1am? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s a shit bill that everybody hates, but hey they did SOMETHING, so now they can all go home for Christmas and brag about that. Oh, and then there’s this: Read more »
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