Month: April 2014
Paul, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Judy Chicago’s “feminist fireworks” light up Prospect Park. (Photo: @joeholmes) […]
Over the weekend, we checked out the Lost Lectures (with Hyperallergic), the latest from a series of innovative talks in secret locations. This time, it took place at the Knockdown Center in the Maspeth/Ridgewood industrial sector of Queens and featured appearances from Blood Orange, Amanda Lepore, Barbara Nitke and others. Barbara Nitke, who spent twelve years shooting porn stills on movie […]
A newly exposed security flaw in Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11 could allow malicious parties to access and take control of your computer through the browser. In response, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is urging people to do what most anyone who’s not stuck on some corporate-issued Windows machine already did long, long […]
UPDATE: They banned it. The lower house of Russian government has passed a bill that makes swearing illegal — in publicly exhibited films as well as in plays and at music concerts. If the bill passes in the upper house, Putin will sign it into law on July 1st. Subsequently, individuals swearing in public may be fined up […]
On Saturday night in Los Angeles, a crowd filled 1988 Gallery for an exhibition of “Rap Quotes,” a series of works by Jay Shells. The right side of the gallery housed the artist’s New York City street signs, which he’s been hanging at specific locations mentioned in hip hop songs since last year; the left […]
Chase Bank has allegedly closed hundreds of accounts held by adult entertainment industry workers, offering no explanation for the closings. Perez Hilton broke the story, publishing a letter the bank sent to porn star Teagan Presley. “I called them and they told me that because I am, I guess, public and am recognizable in the adult […]
For “I Fought The Law,” Olivia Locher staged classic stupid state laws as a series photos. There is a questionable factual basis and a pesky fluctuation in aesthetics, but some of it is quite good. The absurd “In Arizona you may not have more than two dildos in a house” still life borrows from Maurizio Cattelan’s Toilet Paper […]
Last month, NASCAR- and cryptocurrency-loving Redditors raised $15,000 to fund a Doge-emblazoned race car. Sunday, the first pictures of that car hit the internet. Doge itself gets prominent placement on the car’s hood and rear, of course, but there’s a serious lack of brightly colored Comic Sans. Driver Josh Wise will run the Dogecar at the Aaron’s […]
8-Bit Philosophy, a new web series, aims to teach basic philosophical concepts through classic video game imagery. The first episode explores Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” using visuals from The Legend of Zelda. I like it a lot more than Thug Notes, the creators’ previous series, which uses a lazy, totally unfunny caricature of a black “thug” […]
