After pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, artist and political troublemaker Ai Weiwei has canceled his upcoming restropective at the UCCA because “the timing is sensitive and politically they feel it is not suitable at the moment.” It’s also not suitable to search for “Egypt” in China at the moment, ahem ahem.
Finally, there’s a place “where the divine & the divinely appointed meet” and the Hirsts, Gates and Putins of the world can co-mingle their souls and privates! Artist collective Happy Famous Artists wishes you a Happy Valentine’s Day with their next project Leadership Dating. Trailer below. Read more »
Like other billionaires, Mayor Bloomberg needs his private time (and jet). That’s totally understandable. Refusing to disclose weekend jaunts as massive blizzards wallop the city, however, isn’t. The Wall Street Journal attempted to find him using FAA flight records, and apparently, the Dassault Falcon 900EX he travels on really likes Bermuda. Read more »
Renegade art group Voina has been nominated and shortlisted for the contemporary art State Prize Innovation for their June 2010 Work of Visual Art – the epic graffiti bombing of a major St Petersburg draw bridge with a “Giant Galactic Space Dick” that rose promptly at 2:00 am in front of the offices of Russia’s KGB incarnate Federal Security Service… and stayed in a rude salute for hours. In a impassioned statement sent to ANIMAL, fugitive Voina artist Alexei Plutser-Sarno condemns the nomination: Read more »
Lady Gaga arrived in a box truck (along with Terry Richardson) and was then carried down the red carpet in an egg.
A tourist’s POV of NYC reveals our very distinct roofs/local graffiti writers’ expansive canvas. (Image: catfiabane)
After failing to secure a conviction against Buju Banton in the first trial, federal prosecutors have developed a new legal strategy: hit him with additional charges. The reggae champion’s retrial begins Monday and defense attorney David Oscar Markus will now have to defend him against attempting to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and using a communication facility in the commission of an act, in addition to the original charges reports the Jamaica Gleaner.
Subject to Change gathers NY-based artists responding to “society in a constant flux,” all the change, the exponential frenzy, globalization, overpopulation, loss and gain… manifested through painting, print, sculpture, video, day-glo Native American ancestors and toy boats. Tally your losses and gains, tick tock, tick tock. “Subject to Change,” Various Artists, Feb 11 – Mar 18 (Opening Reception 6pm), FATHOM+HATCH, NYC
You might consider sending our former vice-president some sort of “thinking about you in this time of difficulty” greeting card because of all the hardship he’s facing, and all the painful memories he’s probably reliving, right now, in his underground bunker, with nothing but a tub of lard and a bacon smoothie to comfort him. Poor guy! Read more »
In late January, NYC-based artist calling himself Outré worked with a funny named photographer named tomachface on “Family Jewels,” (above) a series of public art panels parodying Jennifer Kotter’s 1993 “MTA Jewels” (below), an installation in the pedestrian tunnel of 14th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues and no one really noticed. Read more »
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