Blood. Bunnies. Strippers. Violence. Diamonds. Sexy nacho chips. NSFW. “If you prefer GIFS over Nips,” Los Angeles musician and performance artist Ashley “Actually” Huizenga says, “here is the YouTube, Rated PG13 version!” So here’s what might happen. First you’ll get entranced by those strange videos that compliment Actually’s scintillating pop. You may make a comparison to Jeff Koons’ ex-wife Ilona […]
A young attendee takes in artist Shellyne Rodriguez’s mousetrap chandelier at “No Longer Empty,” an exhibit inside the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse. (Photo: Scott Lynch/ANIMALNewYork) […]
All this weekend the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is hosting Sakura Matsuri, the crazy-popular celebration of Japanese culture and cherry blossoms. As usual on Saturday, huge crowds caused total clusterfucks at all entrances, but once people got inside everyone seemed to be having a pleasant day, picnicking and lounging, watching the Taiko drumming and Samurai sword-fighting […]
The Armory Show is underway over the Hudson River at Piers 92 and 94, and because we’re on day two of the annual art orgy, there’s probably already been a small nation’s GDP-amount of money spent on contemporary and modern works from all over the world. Art critic Jerry Saltz was in the house, natch. […]
Street artists deploy a variety of methods to get their work seen by the masses. One of these time-honored NYC traditions involves cracking open advertisement kiosks and swapping out the ads with custom art. It’s what put Kaws on the map in the late 1990s and a practice that has been used sporadically since, although […]
Yes, but it is not very good, Basketball City. (Photo: Scott Lynch) […]
This was the 10th Annual Idiotarod — a dogsled street race, but with people instead of dogs and shopping carts instead of sleds — now known as Idiotarodorama or Desistarod because of morons in Alaska who issued a cease and desist (read below). No one called it by the new name or talked law Saturday. They […]
A visit to the luxury offers website Gilt City turns up deals for a spa in midtown, tickets to a “culinary conference,” pilates classes, and… a guided tour of the Rockaways’ fancy new post-Sandy lifeguard stands. The tour, part of a monthlong architecture celebration called Archtober, the will take place on October 29, which is, […]
Late Saturday night, revelers gathered on the Manhattan Bridge pedestrian path for an impromptu party replete with DJs and a booming sound system. Unsurprisingly, the cops busted it up shortly thereafter. We did a little digging on YouTube to find some footage, and the bash looks fun, but exactly as awkward and cramped as you’d […]
People continue to trip out to the James Turrell light show at the Guggenheim Museum. Ooh. Ahh. Art. (Photo: Scott Lynch/Flickr) […]
