Month: April 2014
Pearl Paint, the art-supply store that’s been standing on Canal Street for 50 years, closed its doors for good last week. Its iconic red-and-white building was put up for sale (and possible demolishment) two weeks ago. This morning, several patrons who hadn’t heard the news showed up to buy supplies. One lady, with McDonald’s all […]
Palcohol was NOT approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). Instead, their labels were approved. However the TTB has since recanted, and Palcohol has surrendered those approvals. Apparently, “a representative for the federal bureau said that the approval was made in error, though details were not provided about how the error […]
Kim’s Video & Music is closing its First Avenue location, according to a sign in the window and a post on Facebook. Previously, the East Village mini-chain had spots on St. Mark’s Place, Avenue A, and Bleecker Street, all of which were shuttered over the last decade. No word on a date, or whether they’re […]
Willets Point will be gone soon. The area near Citi Field in Queens long been slated for redevelopment, and soon, its rows of auto repair shops and junkyards will be replaced with shiny new hotels, shops, restaurants, and apartments. Photographer Thomas Prior has been documenting the site since 2012, and has work featured in the […]
Willie, Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
An original Dan Witz in Brooklyn, read our interview with him here. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Mind Game director Yuasa Masaaki directed an episode of Adventure Time! Watch a preview clip above. You will learn about the circle of life DEATH. You know when Adventure Time whisks you away into a land of whimsy and magical surrealism and existentialist suffering? This one is manic and decidedly one of the darker episodes. And Finn’s […]
New York artist Matthew Spiegelman has recently self-published Officioné, a book of large-format photographs and other gorgeous images of weed, weed paraphernalia, weed-inspired aesthetics, clouds of weed behind exhaled and more weed. Like this: Aperture reviews: Clean and precise, the photos do not attempt to get to the essence of what the drug is, but rather take a […]
For Record Store Day, the artist Natalie Sharp painted the covers of eight classic albums onto her face, and the results are terrifying. She told The Quietus: I stupidly thought I could knock these out in a day. Three days later with a bleeding face and being accused of racism after posting my progress on Facebook, […]
Drivers on Staten Island’s Hylan Boulevard this week have been greeted by a towering portrait of Ronald Reagan, musclebound like a non-bald Mr. Clean and wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase “Dear God, Let Me Go Back For Just A Day.” The artist is Scott LoBaido — previously noted for terrible subway safety ideas […]
