Month: September 2013
It didn’t take long for graffiti to spread across the pond. The underground art form that was birthed in the train yards and streets of NYC in the late 1960s and flourished in the early 1980s quickly made its way to London. “Everything that takes off in New York, comes here about a year or […]
Here’s a single-serving Tumblr that re-imagines the Carters and their various friends as personages in famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt and etc — The Carter Family Portrait Gallery! Vivid snapshots of the life and times of The Carters – Jay Z, Beyoncé, and little Blue Ivy – as captured by their official portrait […]
Wobbling over the Williamsburg Bridge on a misaligned bike wheel earlier today, I ran into Michael — a bike mechanic who set up his DIY shop in the middle of the bridge where the bike lane crosses the pedestrian path. I haven’t had the time or the funds to stop by a bike shop since getting hit […]
Those serene concentric circles you see above–Kouichi Okamoto’s Magnetic Field Record–were created by a magnet, a bottle of ink, and a mobile hanging from the ceiling of an art studio. Wired explains how it works: A container of black Chinese ink is connected to a skinny arm, with a magnet serving as a counterbalance at the other end. […]
Barry McGee’s current exhibition at Cheim & Read is his first in New York in over eight years. McGee’s colorful graphic compositions command attention and, at times, may even require their own room to be properly presented. The Bay Area artist’s work is informed by various, distinct influences, ranging from the bold visual styles of graffiti to the […]
British artist Mishka Henner stitched this together from hundreds of high resolution, publicly available satellite photographs of industrial farms in Texas. On the ground, Feedlots are difficult to document, with various ag-gag legislation around the US outlawing “unauthorized” photography of these gigantic breed/feed/kill imperiums as an illegal, even “terrorist” activity. No one really wants to see where […]
We’re not usually in the business of posting mp3s, but when the artists involved are James Blake and Chance the Rapper and the results are as excellent as “Life Round Here (Remix)” well make an exception. The original “Life Round Here,” from Blake’s latest album Overgrown, was a standout track that, with its minimal, constantly looping structure, […]
Last month, the Bloomberg filed a request with federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin, asking her to delay the effects of her recent court decision against stop-and-frisk until the city filed its appeal. This week, Scheindlin denied that request. “Ordering a stay now would send precisely the wrong signal,” she wrote yesterday. “It would essentially confirm […]
That moment–when you come above ground onto the Manhattan Bridge on the N train, or you pull into 14th Street on the A, and you’re frantically refreshing your Twitter and Instagram feeds to give yourself something new to look at for the next 10 minutes–may soon be a thing of the past. MTA chairman Thomas F. […]
Simón, Zuccotti Park. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
