Parting Shot
This is not the set of the new Batman movie, these are actual army vehicles rolling around Chelsea on Veteran’s Day. (Photo: Shamel Washington/Flickr)
Does Occupy Wall Street Have a Pharaoh Complex?
There’s no denying that the Occupy Wall Street movement has grown much larger than the park in Lower Manhattan it currently occupies. However, there’s still a myriad of problems at Zuccotti and since organizers have no plans of vacating anytime soon, maybe they should focus on cleaning up their own backyard before dropping $29,000 to pay for protesters to help police Egypt’s. (Illustration: Matt Hallock/ANIMALNewYork)
While the NYPD was roughing up art-handlers and pro-union protestors outside, Christie’s sold the world’s most expensive photograph. Ta da: Rhein II (1999) by Andreas Gursky, one of an edition of six, $4,338,500. Not his best work. A boring, pricey autograph, if you will. 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: ANIMALNewYork) Read more »
So, Marina Abramović just got burned by someone she really respects, all because she’s planning to “humiliate” her performers by laying them nude on and under tables where the elite MOCA Gala attendees can gawk at and fondle them tomorrow. Apparently, it reminds people of Passolini’s sexually sadistic torture epic, Salò. Read more »
For their latest story in an ongoing documentary segment called “Fashion Week Internationale,” Vice takes to the streets of the worlds big-booty and cocaine capital, Colombia. Read more »
Why Are Polar Bears Pushing Ice Outside the New Museum?
Something’s happening north of the New Museum on Bowery, specifically two people in polar bear suits pushing giant ice cubes down the street, seemingly planning to do this until they melt. A New Museum rep tells ANIMAL, “Really? Cool. I have no idea what that’s about.” Yet, it looks very, very familiar… (Photo: Austin Horse/Twitter) Read more »
What more can really be said about this video except that it shows famed photographer and narcissist, Terry Richardson, kissing a slightly dolled up version of himself played by Chloe Sevigny. Is it a little disturbing? Yes. But it could be worse.
Jim Romenesko is kind of like the godfather of media reporting. For years, his blog on the Poynter website has been a daily must read for journalists and news nerds alike. Read more »
The former beauty queen star of the ‘Tabloid’ doc on her 1977 scandal is suing the director, claiming she was tricked to appear in the film about her kidnapping a young Mormon missionary and holding him in sexual captivity for three days. She called “a honeymoon,” he called “rape,” courts called it “indecent assault.” She now says the film’s producer had threatened to let her dog Jazz puppy die in the pound if she didn’t sign the release forms. Read more »
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