An anonymous Monroe-lover just dropped $4.6 million plus a $1 million commission fee on the dead star’s signature ivory dress that blew up tantalizingly in The Seven Year Itch… or, as it appeared in 1955, when the saucy starlet straddled a NYC subway grate in an “outrageous” public act of exhibitionism. Read more »
Three self-proclaimed “bitches of democracy” from FEMEN dressed up as the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, the stylish as fuck looker Yulia Tymoshenko. In protest against government corruption, they threw money at the police, ripped open their shirts, sang and wailed. Read more »
Street artist Swoon’s goddess of the sea-inspired installation Thalassa unleashes her refuse-laden tentacles inside the New Orleans Museum of Art. (Photo: Joshua Brasted/Flickr)
Well, at least half of the city can be powered by solar power according to people that know these things. A study was done by CUNY in partnership with the City and the U.S. Department of Energy, the results of which were plotted on this cool interactive map. Does this mean we can start having a serious discussion about pulling the plug on the nuclear reactors at Indian Point? (That was a rhetorical question btw, the answer is no, never!)
Twenty-one year old artist Anna Sinkova has been in jail for almost three months for frying eggs on the “Eternal Flame” of a veteran monument in Kiev, Ukraine. She was denied bail today. Read more »
Before Albany officially changes the law and thoroughly reduces the amount of low level pot busts by the NYPD, which makes up a majority of their overall arrests, cops are continuing their spree. NY1 reports the disappointing news: “Officials said Wednesday that the number of people arrested for the drug has jumped about 20 percent from where it was this time last year, and the city is on track to reach a record 60,000 arrests in 2011.” Not surprisingly, the NYPD says those figures are wrong, countering that there’s only been an uptick of about 12 percent. Sigh!
William Hundley’s “Entoptic Phenomena” series comes to NYC’s Show and Tell Gallery tonight. The absurdism of mysteriously floating fabric will be highlighted with installation works. Does it look familiar? Director Keith Schofield “borrowed” some imagery for a Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck music video awhile back, ripping off the artist. He said he didn’t know what it was because he found it on Reddit or whatever, finders keepers. Boo! “Panic, Fear, Hallucination,” William Hundley, Jun 17 – Jul 10, Show and Tell Gallery, NYC
You’ve probably heard the audio snippet of Samuel L. Jackson reading Go the F*ck to Sleep, a “bedtime book for adults,” but here’s the video footage. Pay attention, this is how to take an already viral hit and make it even more viral.
So, there’s this fun little Facebook page called Badly Stuffed Animals. It makes a mockery of poor, dead critters whose butchered and bloated corpses were sloppily preserved by horrendously amateur taxidermists. Head right over there for some guilt and giggles and submit whatever. Also, there’s some actual, legitimate art slipped into the pool. Can you tell which is which?
Forget the outrage over the $20 entry fee being proposed for the September 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero, what’s up with the $60 million a year operating cost?Tastefully commemorating victims of the 9/11 attacks is one thing, but constructing a lavish, financially unsustainable facility that will inevitably face economic problems down the line can’t be the best way to honor the dead. Then again, operating an Interactive Lady Liberty doesn’t come cheap. Money well spent?
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