Month: June 2013
At some point between cringing at a severely loungy remix of NIN and almost spilling our photographer’s beer into his bag, I realize the Fuck yeah! painting glowing in the Pumps “champagne room” is a Noah Becker and that’s not what Noah Becker paintings usually look like. But art exhibits don’t usually pop up at strip clubs. And burlesque show […]
“We look at bicycles today and think that they’re something new, oftentimes we can go back 100 years and see that they tried it back then.” Gentle, yet badass. Sincere, yet complicated. And he’s got one hell of a ‘stache. This is the story of bicycle “caretaker” Steve Carter. He seems like quite an interesting […]
Hugh, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Just now, the ceremonial repainting of the Bowery Wall has begun. Next up on the highly trafficked spot — graffiti artists REVOK (Los Angeles) and POSE (Chicago). Coincidentally, REVOK and POSE have a show at Jonathan Levine opening on June 29th. They’ll begin soon. It’s too hot to paint during the day. Go home. We’ll update you […]
This is an exceptional aerial shot of New York City. (Photo: Jonathan Percy/Flickr) […]
This is Wim Delvoye’s holiest work to day and not because it doesn’t involve tattooed pigs and shit factories. With Dual Möbius Quad Corpus — currently on view at his solo Sperone Westwater gallery show of laser-cut stainless steel and bronze sculptures — the Belgian Surrealist does something quite unique. The four twisted Christs warped around a single cross in an […]
“I am 17 years old and I am a feminist,” British high school student Jinan Younis writes in her Guardian editorial, describing her and her female peers’ experiences with cat calling, rape, emotional abuse, and eating disorders and how it inspired her to create a feminist club at her school. Sadly, those are all well-known issues that […]
To create Eyes on the Sky, the art book pictured above, Jed Carter took inspiration from an unlikely source: weather apps. To offer an alternative to the deluge of information on our phones about temperature, air pressure, chances of precipitation, and the like, Carter created these simple images that elegantly map the weather across Europe. Each piece compiles […]
When French artist Kidult sprayed the word “Art” on the Marc Jacobs store in SoHo using a fire extinguisher filled with hot pink paint last year, the fashion designer responded by taking a photo of the embellishment and turning it into a ridiculously priced t-shirt ($689 to be exact). This didn’t sit too well with […]
Fashion designer and UQAM professor Ying Gao has developed two dresses that illuminate themselves, but only while you’re paying attention to them. Inspired by an essay entitled “Esthétique de la disparition” (The aesthetic of disappearance) by Paul Virilio, the dresses work by way of including sections of photo-luminescent thread as well as an imbedded eye-tracking technology that is activated only by the […]
