F.A.T. artist Aram Bartholl has hacked us a new way to object the persecution and imprisonment of dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Go here for simple directions on how to flip off sites of companies supporting Chinese cultural events while keeping their mouths conveniently shut about the artist’s arrest. Do it with Ai’s own finger from his Fuck Off! series.
Graffiti author duo, Sacha Jenkins and David Villorente aka CHINO, are dropping their third volume featuring some of the artform’s most treasured work from writers’ blackbooks. The latest iteration, World Piecebook, showcases color-blasted pages dones by over 100 graffiti artists, as the title suggests, from around the world. The hardcover also comes with blank pages interspersed throughout, allowing less talented enthusiasts to rock their best sketches and pretend like they were in the book.
As promised, German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann and Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Award winner has turned his $100,000 prize into 100,000 used dollar bills and had them pinned tightly together on the walls and columns of the museum’s second floor gallery. When asked if he wished the work was permanent, Feldmann said “No way! I want the money.” Read more »
Here’s some footage of French graffiti artist KIDULT, the same person who appears to be responsible for embellishing Supreme’s NYC storefront, among others, wielding his trusty paint-filled fire extinguisher and breaking out other subversive tools. Read more »
After four livery drivers were murdered in a short period of time in 2009, hundreds of hacks enrolled in the NYPD’s Taxi/Livery Inspection Program (TRIP), an illogical practice whereby they voluntarily agree to be pulled over by police, at anytime, for their own safety. However, that never meant cops could also search passengers, who happen to be predominantly black and Latino, but that’s exactly what they’ve been doing, prompting the NYCLU to file a federal lawsuit calling for an end to the illegal stop and frisks.
Street artist Ganzeer, a musician and a filmmaker were putting up protest posters in Downtown Cairo, when someone from a gathering crowd called the police patrol. Since the posters criticized Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces – the current stand-in power now that Mubarak has been booted – the three were arrested and turned over to the military prosecution. Shortly after, news of the arrest and the poster image of a winged, gagged “Freedom Mask” went viral. Ganzeer thinks they were freed in less than a day because of the supporters who Twittered and Facebooked them towards a speedy release.
Bravo, Lindsay! Sure, rolling around in blood and sucking off guns was kitschy fun, but this is much better for you. Dive into painter Richard Phillips’s first short film, wherein a water-loving Lohan emotes classic cinema tributes in a bikini. Read more »
Street sculpture artist Isaac Cordal drowns miniature businessmen in a London puddle to celebrate the opening of his show at the Pure Evil Gallery. (Photo: Isaac Cordal/Flickr)
A federal judge in Manhattan refused to dismiss a lawsuit by a disability group challenging the City’s adoption of the Nissan NV200, a vehicle that is not wheelchair accessible, as the exclusive taxi of NYC.
Brooklyn collective FAILE has created a series of Puzzle Boxes. Each puzzle box comes with 88 wooden blocks of six-sided art, inspired by vintage toys. Turn out and shuffle FAILE’s signature femme kisses and pseudo-native imagery, olde school style! The puzzles are available for virtual play, so click away. Oh, fun. There goes your productivity.
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