Hey, artists. High health costs getting you down? Oh what, do you not have health insurance? Of course you don’t. You’re in luck! Thanks to the “Lincoln Art Exchange,” you can now trade your “creative services” for health care credits and apply them towards doctor’s visits, hospitalization, emergency care, lab tests, prescriptions, dental and prescriptions at the at the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Read more »
Russian activist art group Voina of epic bridge graffiti bomb fame, welcome a new addition to the family and they have a graphic photo for you. Not, not this adorable one with the umbilical cord, but this one, with the newborn and her amniotic sac in a bucket. Awweww. Born to marrieds Natalia “Kozlenok” Sokol and Oleg “Thief” Vorotnikov into a bathtub, the baby is already troublemaker. True story. Less than a month ago, she was bopping around Kozlenok’s pregnant gut as Voina torched a police prisoner transport vehicle. Meet “Mama the Darling.” Read more »
After mysterious words like “Last Chance” and “Everything Must Go,” started appearing in the sky over Manhattan last night, lots of people immediately started speculating about the meaning behind the enigmatic messages. Read more »
With NYC becoming more expensive all the time, artists are fleeing to places like Cleveland, Ohio–where you can buy a two-bedroom house for almost as much as a single pack of cigarettes costs here. And with everyone in Cleveland migrating elsewhere, that leaves lots of extra room for folks from W-Burg. Read more »
Using a program originally designed to recognize a brand’s logo, artivist Jeffrey Crouse hacked it to help obscure them now instead. With Unlogo, users can replace or block the ubiquitously branded footage in their videos with an image of their choice. But he still needs money to make it all pop, so logo-hating do-gooders can donate here. Read more »
Graphic illustrator Halfanese has a thing for Suicide Girl-types, cityscapes and fixed gear bikes as of late and over the past month, cranked out a series of work specifically combining all of these elements.
Nate Hill, the magically strange NYC-based artist who has developed more alter egos than a schizophrenic may be getting a reality show centered around his bad memory-extracting mascot: Death Bear. He says a bunch of producers from LA have been hounding him and is actively seeking advice on how best to proceed with a Hollywood hustle. If it’s anything like the last encounter he had with his ex, this could a darkly wonderful hit! I wonder if they were inspired by the latest video of him in action: Read more »
Ever since he abandoned his signature space monkeys and evolved his artistic style future-forward, DALEK continues to churn out these colorfully brilliant geometric landscapes. He shared his latest painting that hasn’t even made its way onto gallerist Jonathan LeVine’s website yet.
Just in time for Martin Luther King Day, zombie portrait artist Grayson Castro created this stunningly horrific painting that will probably scare supporters on both sides of the aisle entitled “Zombie Laureates Earn Their Prize.”
Image: Grayson Castro
Although the Freedom Tower won’t be finished till around 2018, at least the perimeter fence will be colorful. The Port Authority and Department of Transportation are looking for artists: “The winning design will be printed on vinyl mesh banners and cover a portion of the construction fence on Church Street between Liberty and Vesey street.” |NYP|
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