The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is at war with whalers and drones have become an important part of its ongoing reconnaissance operations against them, but unlike the ones deployed by the U.S. military and the CIA, theirs aren’t used to kill life, they’re used to preserve it. 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 »
Christmas might be done with in your land, but at Leo Koenig Dark Christmas is in full swing. With heavy hitters that nod to Christian iconography, it’s a fest of “the brute within,” death, rebirth and body sublimation not unlike Jesus. On the menu: Paul McCarthy’s glutenous consumption and masochist molestation of a hot dog, Hans Bellmer’s broken dolls and fucking adolescents and Ana Mendieta’s divine bloody unveiling. Naturally, there’s a print of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ. Ooh. Smashing! “Dark Christmas,” Group Show, Dec 8 – Jan 14, Leo Koenig Inc, New York
Growing up in Williamsburg my whole life, I’ve always been surrounded with and intrigued by the Hasidic community, and understandably so – in my 21 years as a Brooklynite, there are still hundreds of questions unanswered. Read more »
Now that Occupy Wall Street’s encampment has been cleared out since mid-November and their activities significantly reduced, people are getting a little sick of the NYPD’s tourist unfriendly barricades surrounding Arturo DiModica’s famed “Charging Bull” sculpture in Lower Manhattan. Read more »
While Cai Guo-Qiang’s “daytime fireworks” shattered the sky with jet black puffs of choreographed blasts outside, the solo exhibit at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar played Silk Road, bridging Asia and the Middle East… with explosive results. Highlight: Fragile, a porcelain mural scripted with Arabic calligraphy in gunpowder. Boom. Read more »
Since you all got iStuff this Christmas — and if you didn’t, your parents are the worst motherfucking parents in the world — the New York Public Library is offering to personally train you to use your e-readers and gadgets. They’re even giving out guides that “can be downloaded remotely without a visit to the library.” Mixed signals much? Read more »
The wolf-dog that was strolling around the streets of East New York has been transferred to the Howling Woods Farm in New Jersey and is not only doing just fine, but also doesn’t appear to be nearly as “dangerous” as the Daily News described her. Read more »
If you wondered where the New York Police Department’s horses go when they die — Kentucky. Well, some of them, like this former steed, bones peeled and lovingly assembled mid-prance in front of the Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse by NY prison-guard-turned-farrier Walter Varcoe. Read more »
Footwear aficionados swarmed a Manhattan store, but this time it wasn’t for Jordans, it was for upscale women’s shoes at Saks Fifth Avenue. The store was holding a sale on Monday and when it was announced that the deep 60%-off discount would end at noon, some patrons started getting aggro. “There were too many people. They were pushing and shoving. It was a zoo,” said one shopper to the Daily News. Security was called in and the 8th floor had to be emptied. (Photo: Greg Verdino/flickr) Read more »
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