Month: May 2013
Fall into the very undulating orifice of cyberspace with artist Faith Holland’s new project! VIRTUAL GRRL presents, www.VVVVVV.xxx — freshly premiered, just in time for the National Masturbation Month. Navigate the familiar landscape of a porn portal and get baited into right onto animated GIFs, cyberpoetry, lecture videos, and mesmerizing miscellany. I’ve been wandering around it’s pop-up […]
You’re a tourist in New York City, looking to add a bit of old-world charm to your evening out with your loved one. Naturally, after leaving the theater, you head uptown to Central Park for a romantic trip in an one of the city’s iconic horse-drawn carriages old-timey electric cars. That’s the vision of the […]
A neighborhood that’s been embattled by everything from colossal storms to toxic sludge in recent months has a new hero, as artist Dean Haspiel’s latest comic features a former rascally thief who cleans up his act to become a reluctant crime-fighter. His name? The Red Hook, naturally. Red Hook “yields those kinds of characters,” Haspiel told […]
Joe Lhota would like you to get off his lawn, please. At a candidates forum this week, the Republican mayoral candidate and former MTA chair and Giuliani lieutenant governor took a host of positions at stark odds with the city’s quickly growing demographic of meddling kids. Enjoy living in a converted warehouse space in East […]
Barnes, Greenpoint. (Photo: Aymann Islamil/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Julian Schnabel is hanging artworks, throwing fancy parties and skateboarding all over the Domino Sugar Factory because he can. (Photo: @CreativeTimeNYC) […]
Your va-jay-jay called! It wants to talk about anarcho-syndicalism. This Tumblr is amazing. While you may never be able to leaf through the pages of Cosmarxpolitan to learn the dirty deets of mega-babe Antonio Gramsci’s sex life, or why Kropotkin thinks anarchism is the new black (it so is), these first seven mock-covers will provide […]
Since its rise in the early 80s, HIV has sadly become one of the most infamously crippling, hard-to-beat viruses. But preliminary research from the Temple University School of Medicine suggests that a viable treatment for HIV may be found within America’s third most popular recreational drug: Weed. Using synthetic versions of THC (weed’s chemical compound […]
While most of us are packing away our sweaters for the summer, Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Browder has some cozy plans for one building in the East Village. Commissioned by the local nonprofit Fourth Arts Block, Browder wants to wrap an entire East fourth street building in strips of multi-patterned fabric. The artist, who has previously […]
Just days after Richard Prince triumphantly won his copyright lawsuit, just when we supposedly established that “law does not require that a new work of art comment on any of its source material to qualify as fair use” — today, appropriation rights take a step back. A California judge has ruled that Mr. Brainwash was, […]
