Year: 2013
Finally, we may be entering an era in which we never have to pull ourselves from our iPhones, not even for a minute. The New York Times is reporting that the Federal Aviation Administration is set to give up on perhaps its silliest rule: no phones during takeoff and landing. It makes perfect sense to drop it–the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Irish artist Saoirse Wall talks about her video performance piece Den Perfekte Saoirse (The Perfect Saoirse), twerking and appropriating Jorgen Leth. A recurring theme in my work seems to be my fixation with and my pride in my own failures. […]
Gagosian Gallery’s upcoming group exhibition in London “The Show Is Over” features 35 artists, 34 of whom are male. That’s 97% male, a sausage fest! In fact, it’s 2% sausagier than the Met’s Modern Art section in 1989, according to the Guerrilla Girl’s “weenie count.” That sort of gender disparity on behalf of the curator is too […]
In the five weeks since the British tourist Sian Green was maimed by a taxi in Midtown, there have been at least nine pedestrians killed by automobiles in the five boroughs and thirteen other accidents involving pedestrian injuries. It seems like an extreme number, and it is, but for NYC it’s business as usual: cars have been killing […]
It’s been over a year since members of the Russian feminist punk rock band/protest art group Pussy Riot were each given two-year prison sentences for nothing more than 40 seconds of dancing inside of a Russian Orthodox Church. Today, Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova declared a hunger strike in response to unjust treatment and inhumane conditions at Penal Colony […]
Here’s a new Banky stencil of a vomiting vandal that was confirmed by his official website and reportedly done in Los Angeles. The flowers sprouting up from a crack in the wall have been incorporated into the design. Cute. UPDATE: Better Out Than In has nothing to do with LA. According to Nuart Festival’s Facebook […]
A convoy of brainwashing child mascots could be seen crawling through traffic on 42nd Street this morning, marking the start of Advertising Week. Charlie the Tuna, Buzz Bee, and other species potentially facing extinction waved from the top deck of a sightseeing tourist bus and from individual vehicles at passersby. There will be no shortage […]
On Friday, Rospotrebnadzor — Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare — put Facebook on its official blacklist, threatening to block access to the site by any Russian internet service provider if Facebook does not remove “illegal” content within 42 hours. As of this morning, Facebook complied, removed ads for the […]
Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with who’s in jail, who’s out of jail, who’s in jail and about to be out of jail, and et cetera–and for that there’s Rap Clocks. The ingenious single-serving site gives you a countdown–to the second–until you favorite rappers’ release dates. For the record, with life sentences, C-Murder and […]
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, seeking an end to the days of “A+ great service friendly would use again!!,” has organized “the most comprehensive crackdown to date on deceptive reviews on the Internet,” according to the New York Times. The AG’s yearlong investigation will lead to a total of $350,000 in penalties for […]
