Parting Shot
An unused air conditioning fixture turned trash receptacle gets reborn as a forest-themed diorama in Williamsburg. (Parting Shot: New York Shitty)
NYC crochet-bomber Olek is kind of sweet. A little while ago, some kids decided to burn the street installation she made for an art festival in Poznan, Poland. They easily got caught, but she took pity on them. Read more »
Keeping up with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement is a daunting task for news outlets big and small, so from here on in, we’ll be doing a daily roundup of the latest goings-on. (Photo: astrobuddha/flickr) Read more »
Ian Reid, the rugged NYC videographer/skateboarder who’s previously released classics like Sex, Hood, Skate, and Videotape is back at it again with a new clip, though you can still expect plenty of fights, broads, skating, and hood antics. Read more »
The art world version of ‘Magic‘ is set to begin in Miami starting any minute and street artists have been busy preparing, like this person who embellished one of Shepard Fairey’s signature OBEY pieces on Collins Avenue. Is it a statement about his wealth or a critique of his piss-poor attempt at supporting Occupy Wall Street? Who knows, either way it’s funny. (Photo: Paul Reubens)
New York City artist Jessica Lichtenstein re-contextualizes Japanese anime figurines, but they’re still pervy. So long, toy hoarders’ shelves. Hello, art gallery. Get a closer look at her 3D text sculptures, upholstery, light boxes and the lil plastic anime vixens themselves — torn from their commercialized packaging and staged into real-world scenarios and “stereotypical Western accoutrements like bottles of champagne, designer shoes and bags, and shelves of nail polish.” Double the kitsch! “Play,” Jessica Lichtenstein, Nov 18 – Dec 15, gallery nine5, NYC
Political activist/artist Dmitri “Skif” Putehi remains in custody, facing two years in prison for throwing a glass of water at a court prosecutor at the trial of his associate. In solidarity, these self-identified Anarchists held a fiery protest with a hashtag banner. A cultural milestone? Read more »
Photographer Edward Burtynsky’s Manufactured Landscapes of electronic waste mountains and factory worker borgs had gloriously scared the shit out of us. Now he’s back with his newest, most abstract series. He’s shot Dryland Farming from 2,000 feet above northeastern Spain where people are trying to grow things while nature says “no” — juxtaposed patches desolate and forcefully fertile soil, drought-defiled ravines and the rare river. It’s the Abstract Expressionism of photojournalism! “Dryland Farming,” Edward Burtynsky, Oct 26 – Dec 10, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NYC
Here is CBS News reporter Serene Branson professionally ignoring a a crazy guy, who may or may not be a protester, while on scene of the Occupy LA raid by police last night. Watch as she appears to handles herself much better than that wildly viral broadcast from the Grammys.
Since the ’90s, people have been kissing the tomb of Oscar Wilde and scrawling him love letters in red. It’s been a “cult pastime” at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Today, the restored monument was unveiled, its “graffiti” and lipsticked peck trails freshly scrubbed. A glass barrier “will surround it to prevent the kissers from causing further damage.” Aw? Read more »
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