Month: August 2014
Although they gave the New York Times the exclusive on their alleged American flag-swapping endeavor on the Brooklyn Bridge, German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke have also put together a press package for media outlets following up the story. They’re calling the stunt an “art project” entitled White American Flags. Unfortunately, the zip file […]
It’s very difficult for humans to create new neurons. They can only be formed from embryonic stem cells, which are hard to come by. Not so for crayfish, which scientists have found can create new neurons out of regular blood cells. These are used to replenish their “eyestalks and smell circuits.” Yes, those are real crayfish body […]
Looks like Reverend Bud Green was full of shit. German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke came forward to the New York Times from Berlin, claiming that they took down the two American flags and replaced them with two flags bleached white last month. The artists are established trespassers and explorers who “investigate the boundaries of public space in urban environment through different […]
The new course list is out! The mostly anonymous Bruce High Quality Foundation shifted focus to the Bruce High Quality Foundation University this summer, providing free seminar-style courses in art and criticism. This Fall, the courses include Painting Critique (“slow, dense and intimate, we are going to say yes, and… to just about everything, as we slog through each […]
A dildo attached to a Spider-Man doll is currently hanging from an overheard wire on Eldridge Street reports Bowery Boogie. In 2013, a Barbie was strung up the same way at the same location and earlier this year, a rubber penis tied to an action figure of the Web Slinger dangled above an intersection in […]
The HyperLip attachment by French designer Sascha Nordmeyer goes into your mouth. It stretches your mouth. The “rigid food-safe apparatus” is bright red and asymmetrical. It’s shaped like a mouth. It will make you look “smart in every circumstance” and it will also “inspire.” It’s part of the traveling exhibition “Photography Playground” where people pose with HyperLip in their mouth. (Images via Dezeen via MoMA) […]
There are 32 famous artists in the Art Game — a new Top Trumps set of cards, available in September. Cutely illustrated — who doesn’t want Damien Hirst split in two, Divided-style — the playing cards “allow art lovers of all ages to play their favorite artists against each other to discover who rules the art world.” Numerical values are assigned to “influence,” “shock of […]
Recently, researchers have been rethinking psychedelic therapy, exploring psilocybin treatments of PTSD, death anxiety during the late stages of cancer and similar ailments. According to an article on AlterNet, what sets contemporary trials apart is “the new crop of establishment-oriented academics are exceedingly cautious and responsible” as opposed to researchers of the ’60s, which were a little too enthusiastic in […]
In a wildly inflammatory and alarmist cover story that ran last week, the New York Post proclaimed that squeegee men were back (again) and terrorizing motorists with their window cleaner, panhandling the citizens of Gotham for their hard-earned dollars. To illustrate the mania these men were causing, The Post captured 40-year-old Philadelphia resident Gregg Washington […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Rich Aucoin deserves to make it big. The Canadian artist invokes the deranged gleefulness of Dan Deacon […]
