Year: 2013
The New York State Pavilion, a vestige of the 1964 World’s Fair, looks like a dying spaceship sitting in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, or maybe an airport left behind by some forgotten civilization. Once a a vibrant attraction that hosted tourists from all over, the pavilion has been mostly forgotten, unused since the 1970s. One New Yorker, a […]
In the wake of the City Council passing historic measures to keep the NYPD accountable and Mayor Bloomberg baffling comments about stop-and-frisk demographics, former Executive Directors of the New York and American Civil Liberties Unions, Norman Siegel and Ira Glasser, sent the following letter to all 51 Council Members. Dear Council Member, In response to City […]
William, Williamsburg. Pigeon Service Announcement: While our senior pigeoneers Mike Immerman & Allison Bagg are out of the country and away on business, the rest of ANIMAL crew is taking over their pigeon monopoly. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A section of the East Village gets beautified with markers, aerosol and paint-filled fire extinguishers. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Prosecutors are urging a federal judge to demand that a Wisconsin man immediately decrypt several hard drives that they believe to contain child pornography. The defendant Jeffrey Feldman, currently facing child pornography possession charges, left seven hardrives encrypted and inaccessible to prosecutors. The defendant’s prosecutor Robin Shellow stated that “My client is not giving up his […]
“It’s a representation of the evil and the beautiful, a reflection of the human condition,” says LA-based Austrian photographer Sabine Pearlman about her series AMMO — selects of 900 cross-section images of various bullets, as documented in a World War II bunker in Switzerland. It’s actually less of a metaphor on the human condition than it is a […]
In a recent paper, Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group explains that many of today’s recent medical developments could actually allow for a procedure as impossibly complicated as a head transplant to actually be possible. The greatest technical hurdle to [a head transplant] is of course the reconnection of the donor’s (D)’s and recipients (R)’s spinal […]
REVOKE and POSE have had no trouble keeping busy during their New York visit: Immediately following their work on the Bowery Wall was the opening of their joint exhibition “Uphill Both Ways” at the Jonathan Levine Gallery. Inspired by the late graffiti writer NEKST, this is the first ever NYC show for the duo. In […]
A men’s rights activist group called Man of Korea filed an injunction against the Korean pop song “Be Ambitious,” by Dal Shabet. The group takes issue with lyrics “are about a woman who’s thirsty for sex.” “She’s very sexual in revealing that she can’t take it anymore (without sex) and is annoyed at her boyfriend who […]
It’s healthy to be at least mildly skeptical of gurus with cultish personas, even if you subscribe to their philosophy. Saturday night’s show with Lil B, an artist whose approach to life I am pretty fond of, was thus something I approached with some trepidation. Would the rap game Tony Robbins ask the Task Force […]
