Month: August 2013
Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles is known for its fantastically fan-arty shows dedicated to everything from Breaking Bad to internet memes. People straight up camped out for “The Official Edgar Wright Art Show,” that’s been “seven years in the making” — Wright’s films have appeared frequently in the several installments of Gallery 1988’s “Crazy 4 Cult” movie-tribute […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist is courtesy of Heavenly Beat, aka erstwhile Beach Fossils bassist John Peña, and leans heavily on breakbeats and ’90s nostalgia. Hits from the middle of that decade, when radio-friendly “alternative […]
Starting today, Bruce High Quality Foundation University is accepting students for their upcoming semester. The group currently exhibiting works at the Brooklyn Museum has an ongoing interest in education… the free kind. The Bruce High Quality Foundation University is a learning experiment where artists work together to manifest creative, productive, resistant, useless, and demanding interactions between art […]
In the future, everything will be automated–even milquetoast painting. Case in point: digital artist Kenichi Yoneda (aka Kynd) has created an algorithm that emulates the natural bleed and unpredictability of watercolor paints. And though he didn’t use watercolors himself, Kynd says he was inspired by that venerated master of the magnificently milquetoast: Bob Ross. Kynd says […]
My Grandfather, a Roma who spoke four or five languages when he snuck into this country, once dove out the bathroom window to escape immigration officers who’d come to his door. He drove what he would later call an “embarrassing” amount of food up to General MaCarthur’s place when he was stationed in the Phillipines […]
The New York Times has crafted itself as a reputable news source throughout the years, much unlike other daily news sources. However, the rep comes at a cost. You can’t say “fuck.” Most of the time. For the second time ever, the Times said “fuck” in print, in an excerpt of the novel Dissident Gardens by Johnathan Lethem. Quit […]
Last year, New York Times photographer Robert Stolarik was arrested and beaten by NYPD officer Michael Ackermann after Stolarik took photos of a teenage girl being arrested in the Bronx. At the time, Ackermann claimed that Stolarik was obstructing his arrest by repeatedly setting off his camera’s flash, and that he had repeatedly and lawfully instructed the […]
Kathleen, Rockaway Beach. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMAL New York) […]
Union Square Park’s resident fetishist/fart smeller Roman seems to have simplified his message. Good boy. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Principality of Sealand is a rusted oil-drilling platform, 13 miles off the coast of the United Kingdom. It declared itself an independent state in 1967, becoming a micronation. It’s not too comfortable to live on and it doesn’t have much of a government, but it still might be more trustworthy with your data than […]
