When the Nizhny Novgorod police raided the home of obsessive cemetery expert Anatoly Moskvin, they discovered it shoved full of gravestone plaques, grave maps, bones, skulls, and… 29 female corpses aged 12 to 30 at the time of death. This is the police tape. Read more »
Oh, of course MGM is adapting a series of non-narrative children picture books into a live-action feature film. Oh, and, of course, the CEO of Classic Media productions introduces his pitch like so: “Waldo is the most searched-for character in the world.” Oh, chortle chortle. Egh. Read more »
The greatest thing to come out of Lithuania since Ramūnas Šiškauskas (what, you’ve never heard of the Lithuanian Scottie Pippen?), Mayor Zuokas is apparently in town to spread his pro-bike lane message. 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. Read more »
Mixed media weathering and the photographic eye of Michael Donovan come together to form this eerily mesmerizing shoot for Vision China, where Spanish model Sheila Marquez plays a dark muse of omen-esque proportions. Altered with carefully placed tears and smears of paint, the images take on a whole new life of evil, like remnants of a fashionable exorcism gone awry. Out with you Devil, but please leave my Vuitton shoes and Hermes gloves behind!
Lucky you, Laura Ortiz Vega’s canvas works are coming to the Lyons Wier Gallery, because these preview images don’t do ‘em justice. Photographing graffiti in her native Mexico City, Vega intricately recreates the street imagery with wool thread, ever-so-tightly laid together with the natural bees wax Cera de Campeche used by Huichol Indians. Read more »
With the conflicting Occupy Museums, the disastrous shit show of Occupy 38, and whatever #OccupyArtWorld was, there has been some confusion in the Occupy Wall Street art department, but one cause remains clear. Sotheby’s $500 dollar auction Wednesday night must be crashed. Let’s foster some dialogue! Read more »
A graffiti writer who used to do a little bit of work back in the day and then later became a cop, retired, and then started lightly tagging again, will begin trial as early as Thursday at Queens Criminal Court. Apparently, “NEO” has been forum-bragging about being a cop and “a cripple” with a cane, and left descriptions of his “graffiti-related activities” and his allegedly real birth date on his MySpace page. Read more »
No developers wanted to open up a can of worms and pony up millions of dollars at auction Monday night for the mortgage of a residential complex that is credited with being the birthplace of hip hop. It would have taken $7.9 million to acquire the building but no one even made a bid, so for now, it will remain in hands of Workforce Housing Advisors, a group that specifically deals with preserving locations like 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. (Photo: thebxnyc2008/flickr)
Graffiti writer CASH4 contributes his piece to the Occupy Wall Street conversation off the J line. (Photo: Jeffrey Creager)
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