See “the scaled down infinite” in Austrian filmmaker/artist Clemens Wirth’s third installment of Macro Kingdom. This immaculate, intense zoom on sprouting embryos, growing crystals and iced-mushrooms’ reaching tendrils is part of an ongoing visual poem sure to umph macro fetishists. Read more »
While her peers were getting beaten up and arrested in Egypt, the Meryl Streep of media, Christiane Amanpour, scored an interview with then President Hosni Mubarak and here she is, less than two weeks later, riding tough through the streets of Manhattan… on a bike. And it’s not like she was running errands. The anchor just finished a luncheon with fancy news hags at media hangout Michael’s.
Glenn Beck doesn’t want you to Google because “Google is deeply in bed with the US government” and that’s why all those other countries are banning it, good for them. Lamest attempt to censor the Internet ever, FOX.
Imprisoned Voina artist Oleg Vorotnikov’s appeal over the illegal terms his arrest was rejected yesterday; Leonid Nikolaev’s hearing was delayed. Voina artist have now been in Russia’s notorious central prison for more than 3 months pre-trial. Not Oleg’s “fuck ‘em!” power fist, televised from his cage to the court. Read more »
“I actually put ice in my beer.” Those were the words uttered by the mayor at the Brooklyn Brewery on Monday as patrons looked on in horror reports the New York Post. The beer making venue was celebrating its expansion when the coddled billionaire—who turned 69—explained his appreciation for watered down suds. At least he admitted it’s an odd rich guy tradition that’s all his own. “I’ve always done it. I don’t think it comes from Boston.”
Unfortunate fish crowd below a shrinking ice hole in a St. Petersburg pond, scrambling for oxygen. Happy Valentine’s Day? (Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky)
Mainly this: “Horseman of Apocalypse Shows up in Cairo?” While the people of Egypt were busy protesting, Fox Nation reports that the theological construct signifying the end times and the return of Jesus Christ, appeared amongst the predominantly Muslim crowd—hint, hint! Read more »
In response to the National Portrait Gallery censoring A Fire in My Belly, Chelsea’s PPOW Gallery rounds up NYC artist David Wojnarowicz’s other “transmutation of suffering into wisdom” and Catholic-themed works. There’s a heavy Alejandro Jodorowsky vibe to the show. Read more »
Out of the dozen or so smiling black media personalities featured on this Black History month poster hanging at a McDonald’s in the LES, why is DJ Funkmaster Flex the only person scowling? His mugshot, anything, would have been a better look. Read more »
It’s not just countries in North Africa and the Middle East that have been emboldened by the success of protesters in Egypt. On Sunday, throngs of women all across Italy demonstrated to demand the resignation of hooker-loving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for being corrupt and presumably, way too much like their husbands. (Photo: emi emi/flickr)
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