Pulitzer Prize-wining duo Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith want to “upend art history” and prick holes in the great suicide tale of Vincent Van Gogh. They claim that Vinny couldn’t have possible shot himself with a revolver in the chest in a field and then shlepped to die at an inn more than a mile away while fatally bleeding… Read more »
L’Officiel magazine is keeping with the recent trend of dominatrix-y spreads in their latest editorial shot by Bryan Adams. It stars British model and wife of Duran Duran’s lead singer, Yasmine Le Bon. Accompanied in several shots by an older gentleman, Le Bon plays a romantically rigid disciplinarian – corseted, masked, and showing off several different whips in the process. Posted up on an old desk with her sharp collar and suspended knee-highs, she definitely seems like the type of teacher who’d like to see you after class.
This brilliant little short perfectly demonstrates what it’s like to watch a movie when your English skills are lacking. This “Fake English” sure sounds like English, but what the hell are they arguing about? Ah, the mystery. Read more »
NYC artist Andy Golub who’s been painting naked ladies in Times Square (and getting them overzealously arrested) will have the public exposure and lewdness charges against him dropped, providing he keeps his models’ g-strings on in the daytime. It’s “a compromise.” Boo! Read more »
Amazingly, the Occupy Wall Street protests have once again defied all odds and won’t be evicted for an official clean up of Zuccotti Park after all. Thousands of people converged on the encampment early this morning and the crowd broke out in a thunderous cheer when it was announced, via the “people’s mic,” that Brookfield Properties decided to postpone their planned operation. Read more »
A few hours before the official clean up of Occupy Wall Street’s headquarters, protesters continued to scour Zuccotti Park. Although many of them genuinely want to tidy up the place, they’re also well aware that it’s mostly a futile effort and suspect the real purpose of this operation is to evict them. Read more »
An artist PSA appears in Greenpoint, but its enthusiasm withers mid-sentence. (Photo: New York Shitty)
Today, in distressing yet somehow non surprising news, an ex-cop admitted that he and fellow NYPD officers routinely planted drugs on innocent people in order to meet arrest quotas. Read more »
ArtReview has crowned it’s ”Power 100″ and there’re a few overlaps with world’s wealthiest artists, Marina the diva, Jeff the big cheesy cheese, Dasha the art world superstar who can throw tattooed crotch at us and park her Russian billionaire’s boyfriend’s laser-shooting yacht anywhere she wants because she’s a big deal, and then there’s Ai Weiwei. Read more »
Lips of Babel is videographer Elle Muliarchyk’s latest short and it’s composed entirely of models’ painted lips as they utter tounge-twisters in their native languages. Read more »
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