Month: September 2014
If you ever wanted to make art like Miley Cyrus, now you can. (Photo: Marina Galperina, ANIMALNewYork) […]
Richard Prince has to be one of the most hated populist artists of all time. His work consistently hits the sweet spot of “pretentious” — because it conceptualizes a sort of “theft” — and “mainstream” — because his subjects are very popular (Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll). His work is about Cigarettes, Cowboys, Motorcycles, Hot Chicks, […]
Here are two twitter bots talking to each other. When an image is tweeted at @pixelsorter, the bot account sorts the pixels of the images using a few varying parameters. When an image is tweeted at @a_quilt_bot, the bot tries to “reproduce them using quilt fabric.” This is what happens when they get stuck in a loop. […]
Do you really love your subway line? Do you want to feel like you’ve arrived at Coney Island every time you walk into your house? Then these handmade replicas of the iconic MTA signs are just what you need. Carlton Cutz is just under $1000 away from meeting his goal on Kickstarter. If you donate, you can get one […]
For three minutes before every midnight in October, artist Ryoji Ikeda will repurpose Times Square’s electronic billboards for an audiovisual installation. Ikeda’s “tightly synchronized, flickering black-and-white imagery—mining data for mathematical beauty” will take over 47 screens across five blocks. The Japanese Paris-based electronic composer, sound, and visual artist follows Robert Wilson’s video portraits, Tracey Emin’s neon hearts and others, as part of the Midnight Moment Times […]
“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. Today’s playlist comes to you from New York-based heavy post-punk three-piece Nap. Nap is two […]
A park in Washington Heights has become a source of stress for the community as it has been slowly taken over by a group of homeless people. In 2001, Juan Pablo Duarte Square at the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and 170th Street has been turned into community project by the Greenstreet program and the Washington Heights Gardening Crew. The former all-granite gathering spot […]
The artist who calls himself Chemical X is exhibiting two new panels which he says are made of 10,000 dyed ecstasy tablets. The stained glass motif shows happy smiling faces, doves and rainbows, all in theme with the vintage-styled inscription “MDMA.” The artist, who has once designed the logo for Ministry Of Sound, is trying to keep a low-profile […]
Paul Thomas Anderson returns with his first comedy since Punch Drunk Love. The filmmaker behind There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights has adapted Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice and it looks great. The trailer comes off like The Big Lebowski if it was made in the ’70s. When private eye Doc Sportello’s ex-old lady suddenly out of […]
Rory Denis has lived at 338 E. 6th St. for 44 years and he’s not leaving now, despite his landlord’s pleas. “He’s just trying to stop the inevitable,” says Esteban Vazquez, the contractor in charge of renovating the building. “I was born here, I’ll die here,” Denis tells the Post. “My yellow toenails are going to be embedded […]
