Just as New York City was getting all giddy about its 50 millionth tourist for 2011, some PR asshole from the armpit of Florida chimed in to say that Orlando broke that record in 2010 and will rack up 53.37 million visitors by the end of the year. Yeah, but as NYC & Company has noted, our tourists are higher quality and Orlando doesn’t count in the first place. (Photo: ajsadeh/flickr)
Building off the notion of home, community and trouble within, “from Tea Party definitions of marriage to Occupy Wall Street tent cities,” Momenta Art’s group show “Broken Homes” deals with ruptures in domestic spaces, physical and metaphorical. Highlights: Leah Oates’ images of boarded up buildings and carts of salvaged trash, rattling though haphazardly urbanized Taipei and Anthony Marchetti’s unsympathetic, documentary style portraits of vacated suburban tract homes and the trash left behind. 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: Diana Gerasimenko/facebook) Read more »
Brooklyn-based designer and hopeless AFOL David Cole made some “taxidermied” deer, fox and bear figures out of Legos. Oh, they’re so cute, right? First the internet wanted them all. Now the internet wants more, more, more. Seriously, he’s back-ordered for 1,500 of these little things, which are essentially pixelated animals in IRL, comprised of “mostly new” Lego bits and hand-drawn instructions at just under $30 a pop. Read more »
Now that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy has officially been repealed, proud gay and lesbian service-members can finally let their freak flags fly and openly participate in all military traditions, including the classic Navy homecoming kiss. Read more »
The Swiss Musée de l’Elysée has cancelled their annual Lacoste Elysée Prize photography competition in support of London-based, Bethlehem-born artist Larissa Sansour, whom their cooperate sponsor has decided to exclude from the shortlist. See her three offending, “too pro-Palestinian” photographs here. Read more »
The premise is simple. Go to different areas of the city and ask people: What are you doing tonight? Read more »
Here it is, the trailer to HBO’s Game Change about how Palin ran for Vice President, remember? Going by the quick teaser, it’s seems to be telling us that back then “Obama just changed the entire dynamic” (because he’s black!) and all the GOP had was “a bunch of middle aged white guys” so they brought in… vagina! Game Change! Read more »
Following up on that genuinely clever, pointed, pixelated Cardinal Sin bust roosting amongst 18th-century art at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Banksy has just uploaded a new sculpture entitled Fallen Solider. It’s a classic Roman warrior who fell (ah, like the Roman Empire) on the wet floor, see sign (’cause it’s modern times! I get it!). A little on the nose, ey?
Brooklyn’s Habana Outpost owner Sean Meenan commissioned a mural for his restaurant that would “unite the community,” blending the image of Notorious B.I.G. and revolutionary Che. Cue drama! Who gets the artist credit? CERN who painted the actual mural, Lee Quinones who painted the actual pigeons or a 21-year-old Parsons student who submitted the original design? Read more »
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