Last night, the Daily Show brilliantly captured the overt media bias against Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. And everyone’s guilty of it. According to the latest figures, he’s still receiving lots of support and in the much hyped, most recent, Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, he came in 2nd place, well ahead of Tim Pawlenty who was in third and has subsequently quit the race. Read more »
For this cornucopia, photographer Andrzej Maciejewski bought some supermarket fruit. He laid out and lit it as decadently as a Dutch Master. With the sticker tags and plastic wrappers still on, the series subverts the original context of “Oh, Lord, the bounty! Num num num” to more of a “Womp womp.” Read more »
The “bitches of democracy” from FEMEN are back, climbing a police prisoner transport vehicle to once again expose their breasty angst over “false” corruption charges filed against Ukraine’s hottest politician Yulia Tymoshenko. Shortly after, cops roughly dragged the girls down… by dragging down their pants. Read more »
On Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a press release about the bill he signed, that prohibits smoking on all MTA platforms, including the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North—there’s already an existing ban on NYC subway platforms. However, two key pieces of information were missing that many media outlets didn’t bother to ask: Read more »
Recently, BBC “credited” several photos of the Tottenham riots to “Twitter.” When reader Andy Mabbett complained, the BBC responded: “Twitter is a social network platform which is available to most people who have a computer… any content on it is not subject to the same copyright laws as it is already in the public domain.” Translation: Pffft. Also, bullshit, and so, BBC apologizes. Read more »
R. Crumb has dropped out of Sydney’s Graphic Arts Festival because a paper called him a “self-confessed sex pervert” and cancelled over “anxiety about having to confront some angry sexual assault crisis group.”
Check out New York City’s “exclusive” new series of “limited edition” graphic t-shirts. Rep the city with this drippy, graffiti-inspired design or cop each borough individually. Read more »
A vandal employed cursive to subtly call “Bullshit” on Absolut’s latest marketing campaign in a NYC a subway station. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork)
Chronic crochet bomber Olek’s newest show at Jonathan Levine is nothing but rips. There’s a crochet Invader. There’s a crochet installation version of Annie Leibovitz’s portrait of Keith Haring. Olek even stole the “great artist steal” quote Banksy stole from Picasso. There’s an Olek Supreme art skate deck… or not, maybe it’s just the usual bunch of sex toys in cozies and wheeled objects rendered immobile, swallowed by a web of Olek’s signature crochet insanity. Approach with caution. “The Bad Artists Imitate , The Great Artists Steal,” Olek, Aug 10 – Aug 27, Jonathan Levine Gallery, NYC
It’s no “money-gami,” but Anja Markiewicz’s miniscule folded paper sculptures are tiny enough to latch on to the ridges of your fingerprints. They could very well shoot up your nose in one misdirected snort. Just thinking about creasing and smoothing bits of paper into these preciously small forms of rats and cocks… It’s enough to make your fingers snap back with and psychosomatic trauma. Very impressive. Ooh. Ahh. Ow.
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