Chinese artist Lui Bolin – famous for seamlessly camouflaging himself into urban scenery – began disappearing into Kenny Scharf’s mural today before it gets replaced with a “large-scale participatory art project” by French street artist JR on Thursday. (Photo: Santos Henarejos/Flickr)
As a rider of NYC’s elevated subway lines, I’m all too familiar with the obnoxious antics that riders exhibit by way of their cell phones, but it’s usually only a temporary mental splinter that comes to an eventual end once the train rolls into an underground station. Unless of course they’re “blasting.” That’s the term the “youth” reportedly use when they play music over their smartphones as if they were mini-boom boxes, according to amNY. Read more »
The Brooklyn Museum will not be hosting MOCA’s street art and graffiti exhibit as planned. Museum Director Arnold Lehman said it’s due to “severe reductions in financial support.” Really? After all the success in Los Angeles is it that hard to find a sponsor? Read more »
Hoping to educate people about their de dacto power to nullify unjust laws—specifically drug charges—when serving as jurors even if a defendant is way guilty, artist and author Ricardo Cortes presents his latest work in the form of a free manual: Jury Independence Illustrated. Read more »
This photo of the Tompkins Square Park Riot from 1988 was taken by Ai Weiwei. Before China’s Big Chill, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the artist lived in the East Village, was buddies with Allen Ginsberg and snapped common neighborhood happenings like police brutality. Culled from a loot of 10,000, you can see a collection of 227 photographs of Ai’s New York at the Asia Society Museum on Park Avenue. Read more »
Awkward answer or not, it’s still encouraging to know that the newly crowned Miss USA fembot supports medical pot. Alyssa Campanella still isn’t sure about taxing and regulation the chronic like alcohol and tobacco, but hey, baby steps. At least she does believe evolution should be taught in schools, unlike many of the other candidates (both in the beauty pageant and the Republican presidential field.).
Does a subculture become automatically more worthwhile when faced with an oppressive authority? Is it that very tension that makes it thrive? Who knows… Maybe the makers of the new doc film This Ain’t California about skateboarding as a form of rebellion in the late years of East Germany? Read more »
Although it’s done a little more on the down low in Manhattan, residents in the outer boroughs or anywhere poor people live, hail livery cabs from the street all the time. Now, they could potentially do so legally. As if it matters. The City Council is overwhelming against the measure, as are yellow cab drivers—which is ironic considering all the fares they refuse—so King Bloomberg took his proposal straight to Albany. (Photo: mikeleeorg/flickr)
The next generation of smokers are going to be especially devoted after continually having to put up with these horrific new graphics chosen by the FDA to envelop cigarette packs starting in 2012. This is how you build brand loyalty. Still, I’m kinda bummed they didn’t include this image.
Krokodil is ten times harder and three times cheaper than heroin. Its usage is reportedly reaching epidemic levels in Russia, and only in Russia. There’s no shortage of stomach-churning visuals of krokodil-lovers with their limbs spilling open with rot. Yeah, this one is yucky. (NSFW). Read more »
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