Performance art diva Marina Abramović had caused hoopla with her vaguely kinky, “economically exploitative” gala at MoCA for allegedly underpaying artists to hug skeletons naked and poke their heads through tables. Now, some of the “re-performers” from MoMA talk about their wage troubles with museum institutions. Read more »
Check out this excellent Amazon hack-lite response to the pepper-spraying cop scandal and “Accept no substitutes when casually repressing students.”
Increasingly detached rich guy mayor, Mike Bloomberg, wants to put an end to freeloaders who are just faking their homelessness so they can enjoy the luxury facilities that are NYC’s shelter system. Read more »
At around 6:30pm, after voting nearly lock-step 15-to-1 in favor of a 33% across the board tuition hike per student (instituted gradually bringing it up to $6,300 per semester by 2015), CUNY’s Board of Trustees began individually filing out through back door of Baruch College into waiting town cars and at least one security truck. Read more »
Christmas arrives to Brooklyn in form of tchotkes vendor stations and related wall commentary. (Photo: Scott Lynch/Flickr)
Deep in an undisclosed location below the streets of Paris, the Underbelly Project lives again. Since Brooklyn’s temporarily secret guerrilla art gallery saw 100 graffiti and street artists, the French edition’s crew has been downsized to ten (FUTURA, SABER, more) plus a small flock of photographers and organizers. 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 »
Remember the CDSea, Bruce Munro’s awesome scintillating sea of millions of discarded CDs? This the light enthusiast/artist’s latest installation at the Holburne Museum in Bath — a mesmerizing, multicolor display of 5,000 painted, frosted spheres. I doesn’t make me think about Christmas. Gasp! Sacrilege, right? Read more »
While most of us are still steady rocking sweatpants after last weeks feasting festivities, the ladies in Turkish version of Marie Claire’s December issue are donning no less than their finest assortments of restrictive clothing and leather girdles. In the spread, European models Victoria Lipatova and Nina Reijnders play a couple of naughty girls up to no good in a luxurious mansion, lace blindfolds and stiff whips at their disposition. Which reminds me, now adding lesbionic fetish spreads to the list of things I’m thankful for…
Liberty Plaza is a shell of its former self. Gaining entry into the quadruple barricaded, privately owned public space is now harder than getting into 1 Oak. The list of banned items includes large bags, skateboards, chairs, and bikes, the last two of which can be used as weapons according to Brookfield’s private security team and the NYPD. Read more »
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