Month: May 2013
Mason, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After months of being exposed to the elements thanks to Sandy, Space Shuttle Enterprise is a few steps closer to getting a proper shelter. (Photo: Kyle Petreycik/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Leah McSweeney of indie fashion line Married to the Mob has been putting out Supreme Bitch t-shirts since 2004. Nine years later, James Jebbia of Supreme decides to sue McSweeney for copyright infringement — for $10,000,000. That’s a fairly intimidating gesture. But bring it: McSweeney hired notable free speech lawyer Norman Siegel. And now, legendary artist Barbara Kruger weighs in. […]
“In the Dark,” the latest video from L.A.-based producer and Brainfeeder mainstay Gaslamp Killer, features whirling Mevlevi dervishes, kaleidoscopic images of trees in the snow, and a very scary woman with both eyes and skin the same morbid, icy shade of blue. Meaning yes, it’s every bit as much a wonderfully disorienting journey as the […]
Need some help figuring out the the latest update on the Patrick Cariou vs. Richard Prince copyright infringement case? Greg Allen has published a sequel to his already comprehensive book outlining the entire history of the case. After reading numerous articles discussing the matter without presenting any of their original source material, Allen decided to attain copies of and release […]
Since 1999, Tod Seelie a.k.a. Sucka Pants has been shooting iconic New York — not your shiny postcard tourist New York, not your banal work-a-day New York. Seelie shoots sweaty basement DIY shows, firey tall-bike jousting Bike Kill, Swoon’s Swimming Cities trash-art-rafts on the Hudson River, lawless block parties, artists, train-hoppers, anti-heroes — our heroes. He’s kayaked to abandoned hospitals on […]
Internt memes, by their very nature, are vessels for reappropriation. Philosoraptor isn’t that funny the first time you see it; the humor comes when a meme creator successfully fulfills the parameters of the meme–banal and/or profound observational humor, setup on top, punchline on the bottom–which evolve as the meme propogates and is remixed. But that […]
Multi-media artist Hunter Jonakin — maker of our favorite video game Jeff Koons Must Die!!! — is working on a new project. He’s foraying into the realm of performance art. This isn’t art meant to sell a gallery. It’s art meant for you — the audience. Many of these clever performances are deeply rooted in trolling the “art […]
Ah, historic Jamestowne. The very first settlement of our great colonial ancestors. The glorious Chesapeake Bay, the mighty James Fort, the abundance of lush wildlife! It must have been a wonderful place to live, save for a couple teensy kinks — like rampant disease, constant rape and pillaging, decimation of Native Americans and, apparently, CANNIBALISM. Whether the early […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week’s Sample Wars presents a novel case. Like usual, both Chance the Rapper’s “Everybody’s Something” (released this week on his new mixtape Acid Rap) and Slum Village’s “Fall […]
