The word from EV Grieve is that after getting bombed twice, someone is trying hard to prevent the thrice with surveillance of the block, just to keep a public mural safe. Outrageous! We’re not sure if all these cameras are real or connected to anything, but the Hole Gallery just told ANIMAL that they had nothing to do with installing them — it was the doing of Tony Goldman, property owner of the building. Looks like vandals may have a new target at the wall that’s not Kenny Scharf. (Photo: EVGrieve)

Despite some of Russia’s most respected cultural figures, curators and historians testifying in support of Voina activist Oleg Vorotnikov, the artist has been sentenced to another month in prison, just like Voina’s president. They are being held until February 24th without bail. Read more »

Blogger Portraits Exaggerate Our Fears of Daylight

Photographer Gabriela Herman’s Bloggers project “puts faces to URLs” and those faces are laptop-lit, popping out of the night and heavily-curtained rooms. That’s less documentary and more chiaroscuro. Most of our blogging and masturbating-to-pornography environments aren’t identical. I think?

German sculptor Marcel Walldorf’s Petra (2010) has the German law enforcers in a huff. Of course, the striking detail we’re all staring at is the riot baton propped against the wall over there. Read more »