Something’s really not right about Jeremy Dower’s cute series of pet portraits. These furry, melty, stringy and sometimes dead dogs are rendered with Dower’s signature surreal touch, drawn on cotton rags and digitally adjusted until they look like tripped out Kawaii. See the wrinkled little mugs adrift in swirling distortion at his solo show: “Canis Mortuus Familiaris,” Jeremy Dower, Apr 14 – May 7, Bold Hype Gallery, NYC
Health officials in Los Angeles say that a breakout of Legionnaires’ disease amongst partygoers at the Playboy Mansion can directly be traced to the hot tub. Ew.
Sad news folks. Fox News’ lead conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck is not only leaving the network, but also the Tristate area. He sold his house in Connecticut and has no plans of gracing the city with his new endeavors. “The last thing I will be doing, I will be leaving New York City. As we build a new media I’m not building it in New York,” said the pouty talking head. Makes sense, Bumblefuck, America is much more conducive to his kind of programming anyway.
Copyright infringement now earns you a mandatory date with Happy Tree Friends. If this light instructional sets the standard on what YouTube wants us to think about Fair Use, then it’s really, really complicated, kids, so just don’t remix if you don’t have an attorney… It’s bad, m’kay? Read more »
Yesterday at 11am, two Catholics “disguised” in sunglasses ran inside the museum of contemporary art in Avignon, France, assaulted the guards and attacked Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ with hammers, icepicks and spraypaint, destroying the 1987 photo of a plastic crucifix soaking in a glass of the artist’s urine. Thou shall not have watersports in the crucifixion fetish pageant! Read more »
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For Public SculptureSound, artist Narcelio Grud installed these instruments for tapping, beating and otherwise ambient-music-emitting by regular folks walking ’round the city. The strategically aimed DIY speakers get them jamming to each other from different corners of the intersection. Read more »
MOCA ‘Streets’ Exhibit Incomplete Without Merch
The Art in the Streets exhibit now comes with graffiti fashions. Ten MOCA x Levi’s jean jackets feature MOCA-exhibited Andre, Chaz Bojorquez, CRASH, KR, Neckface, Lady Pink, REVOK, Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf (yes, it’s the mural) and Keith Haring (sans consent, obviously). Read more »
Xooang Choi’s Naked, Sweet Terrors
Seoul artist Xooang Choi’s realistic polymer clay figures are, for the large part, nude and nightmarish: Couples sown to each other skin to skin, a bald belle hemmed with a silk blood-red bow and stretched tangles of tongues. (NSFW) Read more »
Earlier this week, Ricky Gervais hit the circuit to to promote his new HBO special, Talking Funny. The comedian appeared on the Late Show and David Letterman told him there was nothing wrong with his now infamous Golden Globe jokes. Last night, Jon Stewart basically said the same. Read more »
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