Month: June 2014
Artists Eva and Franco Mattes have just launched a new project crowdsourcing a massive body of performance video work. There are several online services where you can pay people to do things on camera. Some of them aren’t even erotic. And now, it’s art. For project BEFNOED, the creative duo pays webcam workers to perform specific actions. The “Balaklava Snacks” series […]
In the best news since the last cool thing the government did, the Secret Service has acquired software that can supposedly detect “false positives” on the internet, including sarcasm. The software can also do all kinds of great stuff like “sentiment analysis” and “influencer identification” and is compatible with already vulnerable web browser Internet Explorer […]
And now, here’s a very pretty cannabis time-lapse, set to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No 25 In G Minor. Watch a delicate little sprout uncurl and rise up from the soil towards the nourishing grow light. Watch it unfurl its unmistakably-shaped leaves. Watch it grow robust and fuzzy among its potted friends and then, finally, oh so climatically… […]
The destiny of Vincent Van Gogh’s missing body part has been unveiled! Karlsruhe’s Center for Art and Media is displaying the closest thing we’ve got to the artist’s ear, grown with genetic material from Van Gogh’s actual relatives. Assertions that this is a perfect replica of Van Gogh’s ear are questionable. The DNA used to create the cells […]
Like a luxury garden gnome, real estate mogul and art collector Aby Rosen has put his 33-foot Damien Hirst sculpture The Virgin Mother out on his front yard, in the upscale neighborhood of Old Westbury, N.Y. The neighbors are so offended by the sculpture, they’ve having a hearing later this month, proposing a local law that will […]
A series of eerily serene photos of New York’s Chinatown by Franck Bohbot show another side of the usually chaotic streets. The photos evoke a cinematic calm reminiscent of a Jarmusch film. They could be the setting of potential action, but they’re silent and mysteriously tense. See the tinted glow of hotel lobbies, the fogged up […]
Now that the White House is firmly pointing at human-made climate change, we’re starting to face the reality that we’re totally screwed, coastal cities and other water-bound places in particular. The federal government is planning to allocate billions to save New York from the rising sea levels and disastrous new hurricanes, but how? The Verge has published […]
Andy, Chelsea. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A Clint Mario bolt-up in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Event producer and DJ Ezra Croft put on an art show in Los Angeles in April titled “Is Nicholas Cage God?” After the show was unsurprisingly a huge success, Croft decided to follow the same formula and will be curating a Bill Murray-themed show in San Francisco this August. The Murray Affair will feature art of […]
