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June 14, 2013 Marina Galperina

THE PLOT THICKENS! Yesterday, we investigated artist Richard Prince‘s outing in Central Park with topless ladies reading Bunny Modern. A tipster who will remain anonymous told us “Bob Dylan was painting on an easel in the background.” He described him as a man with “wild hair and good shades,” painting nudes “with the authority you’d expect of a man who’d […]

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June 13, 2013 Marina Galperina

UPDATE: The plot thickens.  Artist and copyright subverter Richard Prince is a big fan of David Bowman’s futuristic, “hard-boiled comedy” Bunny Modern. He tweets about it a lot. He’s also a fan of deleting his tweets. Good thing we’re all over it. Recently, Prince has been teasing his followers about being up to “something” in Central Park. Yesterday, he […]

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June 4, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Today is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and China has cracked down on any search terms that could lead to the iconic AP photo of man vs. tanks, blocking search terms like “June 4” and “today.” The social network Weibo has been trying to go around this censorship with the memefication of the […]

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April 24, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Every day alot of people sell stuff on Craigslist, but aside from last years Ikea bedframe or perhaps a free toaster the site can tend to be pretty monotonous in its daily offerings. However, a man calling himself Mr. Nice Guy is selling a rather striking portrait of Lil Wayne for $10,000. C’mon, you may […]

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April 17, 2013 Andy Cush

A group of Harvard students has a novel and very zeitgeisty solution for helping the visually-impaired to experience paintings. Using 3D printing, the students hope to turn 2D images into relief sculptures, so the blind can approximate the act of “seeing” the paintings with their hands. “We want to bridge the gap between the visually […]

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April 2, 2013 Kyle Chayka

If you’ve spent any real time on Craiglist you know that it’s mostly just a place to get rid of last year’s Ikea furniture. Occasionally you find something so silly, so poorly written, and so ridiculous that you have to tell someone. Someone is selling a painting on Craigslist for $45,000. Perhaps the only thing more ridiculous […]

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