As someone who once had to sit in Bushwick’s public library due to high speed issues, I’ll be the first to say that today’s kids are little bastards, but getting the police involved? A librarian from the UWS says absolutely.
Friday, Voina artist Oleg Vorotnikov’s case was once again rejected by a politically motivated court. His lawyer’s complaints of police misconduct and unlawful terms of incarceration were rejected as Oleg attempted to hear the hearing through a malfunctioning video intercom. Details and video of Kasper below. Read more »
Her name is Rachel Sterne and she was chosen to be NYC’s Chief Digital Officer, whatever that means. As far as her qualifications go, she’s hot 27, the CEO of crowdsourcing news site GroundReport and teaches social media at Columbia Business School, but more importantly, has a Flickr, a Facebook and a Twitter. See the interview she gave about the changing face of media on Vimeo below: Read more »
This is the part where I would normally bitch about epic biter hack Hirst and say “How dare he offer a £20,000 ($31,916) a year to a skilled artist assistant!” Yet, this isn’t a matter of how much he can afford to pay or whether one of his hundred elves deserves a bigger cut of the millions he makes from their labor. Read more »
Has NYC Lost Its Character?
That’s the question the Wall Street Journal is asking. The paper cites the closing of CBGB, the Disneyization of Times Square, the eviction of Shoot the Freak in Coney Island, and the shuttering of OTB as just a few examples of the city losing its edge and possibly its character along with it. A source from the 90s said the same thing about the disappearance of weed spots in the East Village, lack of cool clubs in the LES, and sharp reduction of gang shootings in Harlem. (Photo: John Penley/NYU’s Tamiment Library/flickr)
While it’s common knowledge that the New York Post often rips off story ideas from local blogs—just ask editors from Gothamist, EV Grieve, New York Shitty, Vanishing New York, Sheepshead Bites* and a handful of others—their latest article on the bombing of the Bowery mural, which was basically lifted from several ANIMAL posts, was particularly egregious. Read more »
Earlier this evening, Twitter went nuts when Keith Olbermann said something during his program. You’ll never guess what it was!
Parting Shot: Shadowy
Ellis Gallagher, an artist who’s suing the city for the right to draw on the sidewalks with chalk and not be arrested, is having an exhibit at Brooklyn’s Mighty Tanaka gallery and it’s starting right about now! (Photo: SMKjr/flickr)
Photographer, artist, and unofficial LES mayor, Clayton Patterson, recalls the time he illegally painted the wall on Houston Street and the Bowery in 1990. He tells The VIllager that “it had been empty for quite a long time,” and then one day, he “just decided to take it over.” Read more »
Since Jeff Koons sent a cease and desist letter to SF’s Park Life gallery for selling bookends shaped like the balloon dogs which he obviously invented, the gallery lawyered up and swung back with legal zingers galore in a federal complaint starting with “As virtually any clown can attest, no one owns the idea of making a balloon dog, and the shape created by twisting a balloon into a dog-like form is part of the public domain.” Read more »
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