Year: 2013
Oh my god! There’s a Dunkin Donuts now open on Bedford and North 7th Street. How will the artist community handle this corporate invasion? Will the mom & pops shops be ok? Where did the mom & pops shops go? I could have sworn I still saw a bodega here last month… Anyway, I asked […]
Last month, Le1f dropped Tree House, the New York based rapper’s second mixtape of the year. Yesterday, he re directed by contemporary artist Alex Da Corte on MOCAtv’s YouTube channel. The video features Le1f and a female model writhing and dancing in slow-motion over velvet bedsheets to the tune of a chopped-up beat backed by some very drippy vocals. The […]
This afternoon, I spotted Banksy’s “Sirens of the Lambs,” the 11th installment of his ongoing Better Out Than In public exhibit. He describes it as “a slaughterhouse delivery truck touring the meatpacking district.” It’s comprised of a truck load of shrieking, stuffed animals, some of which have been mechanized, others that are apparently being animated […]
According to The Guardian, the Museum of Modern Art has acquired a collection of prints curated by the Booklyn Artists Alliance entitled the “Occuprint Portfolio.” It is a collection of silk-screened artists’ prints by Occupy protesters like Molly Crabapple, Jesus Barraza and John Emerson, among many others. Christophe Cherix, the museum’s chief curator of drawings says that while they were […]
Aspiring noise-rock shredders would do well to head to Other Music on October 28, when former Sonic Youth guitarist and current solo artist Lee Ranaldo will be giving a free clinic on the instrument. He is a very good guitar player. I’m thinking about going. The ads for the clinic excellently parody local guitar hero […]
Just days ago, Brooklyn education and arts space 3rd Ward suddenly went dark. Rumors of bankruptcy and foreclosure spread, though the owners had recently opened new locations in Philadelphia and Brooklyn. The financial woes are presumably linked to the company spending a bit too much on each of these new properties without first properly securing […]
As was expected, the next piece of Banksy’s “Better Out Than In” series is this truck full of squealing stuffed animals. It’s called The Sirens of the Lambs, and it’s apparently going to be rolling through the Meatpacking District today. The audio guide isn’t working for us, but we’ll update if and when it does. UPDATE:The truck […]
Krokodil! It’s that drug you cook from cheap dirty opiates, gasoline and rubber, and then you inject it, and you feel like you did heroin sort of, and then your skin rots off, Vice films you, and then you die in Russia! Or is it… New York’s hottest new club drug? Reasonably, the DEA does not […]
Kanye West’s “Gone,” an excellent album cut from 2005’s Late Registration, is officially a hit, only eight years after came out. The track’s newfound fame is thanks to a viral video it soundtracked, in which a producer for the Taiwanese animators Next Media Animation theatrically quits her job. Billboard recently began tracking YouTube views as part of […]
Yet another NYPD officer has come forward and admitted he was riding with the group of motorcyclists who chased down and beat a driver last month. Matthew Rodriguez, 28, serves in the internal affairs bureau–ironically, the division of the NYPD devoted to investigating wrongdoing by cops like this one. Rodriguez is the latest to come forward […]
