Norbert Brunner at Claire Oliver, Because You Are Great

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Claire Oliver Gallery announces Fuck Luck, an inaugural American exhibition of Austrian artist Norbert Brunner, featuring “juxtaposing” of “large scale crystal embedded mirrors with iconic photo-portraits” that invite the viewer to (metaphorically) step into the work and do some positive self-evaluation, which should be easy when you’re reflected and bejeweled with “you are great” and “I am.” Fuck Luck is a mixed media sculpture exhibition. Good vibes.

Fuck Luck, Norbert Brunner, March 11 – April 10, Artists’ Reception March 11, 6-8pm, Claire Oliver Gallery, Manhattan

I’m Not a Real Hipster, Because I Can’t Drink PBR

I’ve never been a drinker, mostly because ½ of a Red Stripe gets me gone, and I end up on the floor screaming at people to get me french fries from Wendy’s while wearing nothing but a monocle.

Apparently, this isn’t uncommon and many Asian people get shafted (and not in the good way), because they lack the enzyme that allows them to metabolize the acetaldehyde in alcohol. If throwing back liquor were at all fun for me, even only 5% fun, I’d probably continue to do it; but it is 100% of a bad time, every time. Read more »

Surveillance Drones Will Keep America Safe, Eventually Enslave Its Citizens

Well, it looks like the Coast Guard is keeping its word and will start deploying drones over the Gulf of Mexico. The unmanned aerial vehicles that have become a hallmark of wartime insurgent-hunting in the Middle East—Pakistan in particular—will be used for “drug surveillance and rescue efforts,” according to UPI. Yea, until they get their next assignment. Maybe this author is onto something.

Sofi Zezmer at the Mike Weiss Gallery: Something Plastic This Way Thumps

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Mike Weiss Gallery presents Sofi Zezmer‘s Remote Control and her manmade microorganisms. There’s something unsettling about these deliberately wadded plastic odds and ends, but if you want to see colorful cable ties, funnels, drinking straws and bicycle helmets form “irrational Duchampian hybrids of mechanical and biological systems” that comment on “consumption, mass production and overflow,” float on over to Mike Weiss and see this Frankenstein-MacGyver hoopla. But don’t blame us if you get neon nightmares of this thing buzzing around your room trying to eat you.

“Remote Control,” Sofie Zezmer, February 27 – April 3, Mike Weiss Gallery, Manhattan

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It’s The Real Funny This Week…Thanks To Charles Hamilton

Hip hop sketch comedy group ‘The Real‘ may have just discovered a new strategy for being funny: stay off camera. For their latest jaunt, they dug up punch victim, unsuccessful battle rapper, and fictional storyteller Charles Hamilton, who then proceeds to rip on himself and provide what their previous videos haven’t: laughs!

That Businessman Is Planning to Paint Over Banksy’s Giant Rat

The Telegraph contradicts BBC, reporting that developer Billy Palmer who bought the Liverpool pub donning Banksy’s 30-foot tall machine-gun toting rat actually has no plans to keep the art work. Read more »

Despite the sunny weather, access to beaches, and high concentration of blonds, LA isn’t as easy-living as everyone thinks. Also, this income figure is just depressing: “Los Angeles County has 250,000 millionaires among its 10 million residents.”

Tarantino Buys the New Beverly Cinema: Now What?

Quentin Tarantino has just purchased New Beverly Cinema, saving the struggling moviehouse from becoming a Super Cuts. The landmark is one of Los Angeles’s few cool culture hubs, but is it in danger of being smothered with Grindhouse kitsch or will the new landlord leave some breathing room for auteurs and masters? Read more »

What Price Liberty?

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Hey you never know? All you need is a dollar and a dream. You’ve got to be in it to win it. And now, you could win a life changing jackpot and then buy various New York City landmarks. Perhaps you’ve seen some of the executions around town from this new campaign for Mega Millions? God, they’re depressing. Read more »

Are you kidding me? Gothamist: All Officers Acquitted In Subway Sodomy Trial. Nice work Charlie Hynes!