Month: May 2013
There’s always been something troubling about the anonymity the Star Wars films give their most ubiquitous villains. Anytime something bad happens to one of our guys, it’s a whole big thing, but Stormtroopers are obliterated left and right without the audience being asked even for a moment to consider their deaths. Who knows? The troopers could be […]
Watch the road. Watch the road disintegrate, swallow itself. Watch the street lights mosh the sky into the traffic, like a windshield wiper plowing down everything. First thought: Leos Carax, Holy Motors. Paris galerie charlot set up shop in a minimal corner booth at the inaugural CutLog New York art fair in PS 160. The three Jacques Perconte video works are […]
In what may very well be the first internet humiliation video of our time, the “Star Wars Kid” video has gained an estimated one billion views since it was posted online on April 14th 2003, a time long before the ubiquity of sharing videos on YouTube had even began. The video, which features a young Ghyslain […]
First the New York art show, now this. The posthumous resurgence of Andy Kaufman’s popularity continues with his first ever “proper comedy LP” of previously unheard material, coming out from Drag City records this summer, July 16th. YEY. Purists beware of your enthusiasm. The material for Andy and His Grandmother “culled and edited from a micro-tapes used in Kaufman’s […]
Ernie, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Ancient graffiti is being excavated by weather damage at the N train Avenue U stop. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
No, these aren’t those way-trippy black light dorm posters they sell at Spencer’s Gifts. They’re actually software-enhanced medical images of teeth, rotting teeth, the inside of a left nostril, heart valves, the brain’s fourth ventricle, stress lines in the skull, and cranial blood vessels; respectively. They just happen to be really, really, mind-meltingly psychedelic. Hong-Kong […]
“I’m a little tired,” Tima Radya tells me, smiling. The soft-spoken street artist was up until 3am the night before CutLog New York’s inaugural press opening last night. He was stacking, climbing, stacking his recreation of Stability Figure 1 — a giant pyramid of cards. The cards are riot shields. This is the anonymous Yekaterinburg street artist’s […]
A recent commissioned mural by Cuban-American street artist David “LEBO” Le Batard for the Great Southern Hotel has struck an unwelcome code with Miami City Commissioner Patricia Asseff who told the Miami Herald, and I quote: We don’t want it to start looking like a ghetto over there. While the jazz-inspired piece titled “Bee-Bop Into Outer Space” diverged from its original sketches — […]
Catholic League president Bill Donahue is putting on his art critic hat once again. The man who once made a really shitty parody of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ is now taking aim at David Bowie, whose latest music video featured a whole ton of not-very-nice Christian imagery. Donahue calls Bowie a “switch-hitting, bisexual, senior citizen from London” […]
