On Sunday afternoon, a Chinese man was handing out a flyer, allegedly “for an artist,” near Wall Street and at Zuccotti Park. It was purportedly written by “the hottest star from China” seeking a “not asian” husband with a lengthy list of requirements, including but not limited to a masters from “Harvard” “Yale” or “Oxon,” a house and a car. Read more »
Oh, woe, Smiths fans. You’ve heard that Morrissey sold his ultimate anthem to perpetually unrequited love Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want to a department store, right? Watch this improbably sweet lil spawn as your song is murdered. Read more »
(Photo: “Double Check” sculpture in Liberty Plaza taken by Susan Meiselas on September 12, 2001)
While a lot of noise was made on NY1 this year over the 59th Street Bridge’s new moniker, even English-speaking cabbies are good for blank stares if you suggest the Ed Koch Bridge back to Greenpoint. Whether some renamings don’t stick because the subject’s new designation is too unwieldy, too unpopular, or both is impossible to say—but the city’s history is littered with similar instances of tossed aside official nomenclature. Read more »
Graciously gap-toothed model Ashley Smith is front and center in this cannibalistic-reptillian Antidote magazine spread, where all she wears are snakeskin accessories and a lovely assortment of serpents. Lensed by Giampaolo Sgura, the editorial titled “Corps à Corps” shows Smith in all sorts of sultry poses, as vengeful-looking snakes cling to her bare body. PETA will probably catch a hissy fit… any minute now.
This time, you can touch the art. Artist Roy Nachum writes Braille messages in raised gesso pixels with a pallet knife on large canvases. Then, he paints boy kings, rabbit giants and seas of hands with oil on top. What a nifty idea! Braile-reading poetry snobs may want to lower their expectations though. Read more »
So, after removing their ‘Occupy All Streets’ t-shirts from the Rocawear website over the weekend, surprise, they’re for sale again. According to Russell Simmons’ Global Grind website, which can’t be trusted and whose editor-in-chief gave Jay-Z a blog-world blowjob, the shirts were never “pulled,” except they were. Read more »
Here’s a fresh-squeezed, brief and bizarre teaser for Little Appliances from Spanish writer-director Manuel Arija. This should appeal to two kinds of people. The first are the film nerds, delighting in the glimpse of a daring new talent. The other: particular pervs. Read more »
Last week, word got out that Marina Abramović was going to plop skeleton-hugging nudes on the MOCA gala tables and pay $150 for aspiring performance artists to poke their heads through them — spinning, detached, dead-faced between dishes while art stars and celebs munched their $2,500-$100,000 dinners. Yvonne Rainer condemned it as “grotesque,” “verging on economic exploitation.” We thought it sounded kinky. Was it? Here’s a peep at Saturday night’s party. Just because there was no [overtly apparent] sexual fondling going on, doesn’t mean it wasn’t obscene. Read more »
After recently occupying Wall Street for the filming of The Dark Knight Rises movie, the top level of the 59th Street Bridge was closed for the majority of the weekend, creating a traffic nightmare for drivers on both sides of the span. Read more »
For the past few days, the internet has been buzzing about Jay-Z’s ‘Occupy All Streets’ t-shirt. At first, when fellow hip hop mogul Russell Simmons tweeted a backstage photo of Hov wearing it at a concert, no one made too big of a fuss. UPDATE: Russell Simmons and Jay-Z are full of shit! Read more »
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