Month: January 2013
Just now, in front of Maurizio Cattelan’s Family Business Gallerywe witnessed the most cathartic exorcism of old work. After tearing down xeroxed and otherwise flammable work from their last show, the gutted insides of the small storefront gallery were stuffed into a trash can and burned in front of gathering crowd. A police cruiser made […]
Brooklyn-based collective FAILE’s tower for the New York City Ballet dominates the Lincoln Center. (Photo: Don Juan Tenorio/Flickr) […]
Kat Candler’s fictional short Black Metal premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and it’s now ready to watch on YouTube. That is if you’re into murder. And metal. Or short films. It’s not officially based on Varg Vikernes but it definetly deals with the mystique. After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, one fan creates […]
The citizens of the East Village are fighting the corporate, convenient menace known as 7-Eleven, attempting to thwart the company’s intention of building dozens of stores in Manhattan. To voice their disapproval, East Villagers are marking the sidewalks with anti-7-Eleven statements, like the one above. A meeting on East 11th Street brought out more residents […]
A brand new Sandy-themed Annie Leibovitz photoshoot over at Vogue is suffering a bit of a backlash right now. It’s understandable that this glamorous couture mugging may seem inappropriate in context, but it’s not like the models are strutting over hurricane ruins? As far as “controversial” fashion shoots, this isn’t that bad. The models are not […]
Craigslist’s “Free” section is home to curiosities of all sorts, from the curious to the mundane. At the time of this writing, there’s rollerblade pads, operetta 78s, and a hilarious, cryptic post both advertising free porn DVDs and soliciting “slim, clean” male models on the NYC site. Animator and free-stuff-enthusiast Kristen Lepore seized on this with […]
This week, the topless Ukrainian protest crew FEMEN have done something quite ballsy, or rather… titsy? As the Pope was reading the Angelus blessing in the Vatican, the activists stormed through St Peter’s Square chanting “homophobes, shut up!” with only the slogans “In Gay We Trust” on their bare torsos. Video is NSFW. Wow. We haven’t always seen eye-to-eye… […]
As far as I can tell, the Guilford Avenue Bridge, a multicolored Baltimore landmark, does not appear in the video for Dan Deacon’s instrumental track of the same name–but just about everything else in America does. Director Alan Resnick takes us on a time-lapsed journey across the country with Deacon, his bus, and his band […]
Artist Adam Harvey–the guy behind this anti-facial-recognition makeup–is back ,with more practical, surveillance-busting work: Stealth Wear, a line of clothing designed to block thermal imaging, a tracking and surveillance technique often used by drones. According to the artist, Stealth Wear “continues to explore the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge authoritarian surveillance.” […]
If you make porn with two women having sex with you, that’s fine. If you make porn with two women having sex with you while eating feces, that’s illegal. Ira Isaacs, a man from South Bronx, was sentenced to four years in prison for five counts of selling and distributing obscene material after being arrested […]
