Group Tightener records’ Jamie Granato and Sam Hockley-Smith are not native New Yorkers, but to see them now, you’d never know it. Hockley-Smith spends his days as an editor of The Fader, while Granato fills his days, like so many other creative people in this city, with all things freelance. Read more »
Out of all the Christmas displays in New York City, the one in front of the Fox News offices on Sixth Avenue is the most chilling, with its selection of lights that makes the trees look like they’re dripping blood. Watch in horror.
Just another day in New York City’s subway system, which doubles as a hotbed of talented performers representing all genres of music. (Photo: kittylittered/flickr)
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: Poster Boy/flickr) Read more »
The list of artists participating in the Whitney Biennial 2012 has leaked, has been confirmed and is busy spreading confusion through the viral art critic community. Georgia Sangri, wtf? Read more »
This is what art by the legendary artist, filmmaker, snappy dresser and haterade attractor Julian Schnabel’s daughter looks like. According to the Hole Gallery (now responsible for curating the Bowery mural) these are “allegorically suggestive figurative paintings that use a shared five-color palette to great effect.” Greek islands! Androgynous youths! A dead albatross! Sexy time! Read more »
Because the NYPD blindly enforces laws that aren’t even illegal, every few months it takes a judge or the police commissioner himself, to remind them what IS and NOT an arrestable offense. Read more »
The girls from the Ukrainian topless protest crew FEMEN speak out after allegedly being kidnapped, humiliated, threatened, forced to undress and beaten in a Minsk forest, abuse which they say was perpetrated and filmed by the Belorussian KGB. Yes, they still call it “KGB.” Read more »
Its been a pretty rough year for Americans, specifically for us 99 percenters who scurry around and scrape for the 1 percent’s crumbs. Read more »
This graphic performance action follows the international occurrence of protestors sewing their mouths closed, like this one in Greece in solidarity with mistreated Iranian asylum seekers. Watch as two artists get Stitched Together. NSFW. Read more »
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