Graffiti Artist Festoons Brooklyn Parking Lot
Artist Steve Powers (formerly ESPO) is working on a “Love Letter” to Brooklyn on the giant, ugly banks of a giant, ugly parking lot for the giant, ugly Fulton Mall. Read more »
Footage of several NYPD officers grinding up on dancers that was allegedly shot from this year’s contentious West Indian Day Parade has made its way onto the internet and we think it’s a good thing. Read more »
Parting Shot
Mourners of the Williamsburg’s soon-to-be-demolished, non-profit Monster Island art center gathered for a ceremonial farewell “Paint Pour” yesterday. (Photo: Luna Park/The Street Spot)
Dutch artist Johan Rijpma has made a tedious, time-consuming, utterly hypnotic video art piece starring… tape! Watch the clusters of clear tape rolls swell and swirl in patterns against projection screens to an ambient soundscape punctuated with remixed sounds of pulling tape and sticky pops. Read more »
Like the ghetto answer to lost Holocaust art or something, a previously unheard LL Cool J track was found behind a radiator this weekend. Recorded in 1994 during the “golden era” of rap music, it’s called “Year of The Hip Hop” and is now being sold in a limited edition vinyl run for lots of money, depending on which color record you buy. And it’s not bad! Read more »
This fresh cycle of oil paintings from artist Joe Forkan isn’t just another dump of The Big Lebowski-phile fan art. Oh no. From Rubens to Titian to Caravaggio, each work channels a specific painterly masterpiece while simultaneously encompassing a key moments of the cult film. Those classical compositional really pulls the mise-en-scène together. “Paintings From the Lebowski Cycle,” Joe Forkman, Sep 10 – Oct 28, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, California
Officers in this squad car didn’t flash any lights or even sound off their Rumbler siren as a driver made a highly conspicuous, illegal three point turn on Broadway—a major thoroughfare—just across the Bushwick border in Williamsburg this morning. Read more »
Rihanna Sheds Her Clothes for Armani
After a good run with Megan Fox, the folks over at Emporio Armani Jeans & Underwear are finally making way for new campaign girl Rihanna to get the Fall season started off right. Shot by Steven Klein, the vibe remains typically Armani in black & white with RiRi posing with an old car in a gradual striptease from denim to lace intimates. I definitely think they could have done better given the magnitude of her hotness, but at least it’s nice to see them incorporating some color in their ads for once, even if it means turning her blond first.
Continuing their “Model, don’t go into a brothel!” campaign, FEMEN activist Alexanra Shevchenko crashed a Miss Ukraine press conference yesterday, running in bare-breasted between visiting celeb Paris Hilton and the cameras. NSFW. Read more »
Thanks to the 2010 U.S. Census, we now know that Williamsburg is filled with the most pairs of roommates. We don’t think they were counted, but the number of Orthodox Jewish children sharing rooms could’ve put that neighborhood at number one very easily. The census also shows that central Staten Island, specifically those in 10314, has the highest percentage of white and married homeowners, making it the most boring zip code in all of America. Didn’t need a headcount to tell us that.
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