It’s been awhile since I’ve fallen in love with a physical piece of art, but this nontraditional spin on the fabergé egg just sold for $1.1 million to the Fabergé Museum in Baden Baden, Germany and it’s amazing. Behold: a glass of vodka (rock crystal), gnawed fish left-overs (silver), fly-topped fried egg (amber and white enamel) and cigarette butts (quarts and silver.) Yum? Read more »
NYC’s Nate Hill takes Harlem with his new piece The White Ambassador. What’s with the white face, you ask? Earlier this year, Hill has set up a WhiteSmellBot on Twitter that is now retweeting about 80 “white people smell like” stereotypes a day. As a biracial performance artist, he’s headed out to confront these bytes of cyber racism. See the video for some tense discourse. Read more »
Is 65-year-old Michigan State University professor Danny Guthrie perving out by posing for some art with his partially dressed and nude students? Or, are all you “outrage”-squealers just a bunch of artless killjoys? The professor has recently inspired media hoopla over his ongoing series reenacting classic art history motifs like the Pietà only he’s Mary and a naked chick is Jesus. Read more »
Just like at Liberty Plaza, police barricades have been placed at Baruch College to limit the movement of people, however, in this case, it’s not Occupy Wall Street protesters who are being restricted, but students. Read more »
Just another regular day in Central Park… with a Big Bird sighting. (Photo: Veng/Flickr)
Arthur Fellig (aka Weegee) — renowned for his prolific photojournalism career in ’30s/’40s New York City and those gruesome crime glory shots – had relocated to Los Angeles to shoot celebrity culture in 1947. He disdained celebrity culture, hence Marilyn Monroe and the Marilyn Monroe wannabees came out twisted and distorted. Read more »
We’re fond of this etched glass piece by artist K-Guy, currently on view at the London West Bank gallery. It’s the Royal Crest of Arms, updated to illustrate the London Riots of 2011. Not exactly tongue-in-cheek, but amusing nonetheless. Also at the exhibit: Moses brandishing the 11th Commandment plate: Thou Shall Not Covet Celebrity. 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: Sid Fligel/flickr) Read more »
Here’s a trailer for the documentary The Rep on repertory movie theaters where you watch the best/cultiest/classic-most of cinema. From NYC’s FilmForum to Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse to LA’s New Beverly, these are our musty cathedrals, film nerds. Read more »
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