Month: September 2014
Whodini, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In the wake of its demolition, the D _ _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ Factory’s iconic neon sign is now almost completely dismantled. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In an interview with the Guardian about the deep web, the Canadian essayist and artist Jon Rafman talks about his favorite find from the depths of the internet. “Wizardchan is an online community of male virgins over the age of 30. It is a community of supportive self-deprecation and self-loathing with a very internet sense […]
In the past two months, two pedestrians in Central Park have been hit and killed by cyclists. The deaths of 75-year-old Irving Schachter and more recently, 58-year-old Jill Tarlov, are tragic accidents, but they’re also very rare occurrences. Yet a wave of overreaction by the NYPD and journalists is dominating the current narrative. Samuel D. […]
“We kill people based on metadata.” Those are the first words you see when you open James Bridle’s latest web-based artwork A Quiet Disposition(AQD), but the source of the quote is Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA, and it sets an inescapably sinister tone for the project. Named after the Disposition Matrix — America’s “next-generation […]
For his new exhibit opening September 27th on Alcatraz Island, embattled artist and activist Ai Weiwei has assembled 176 portraits of political prisoners and people in exile for their political beliefs — in LEGOs. Ai spent six months compiling a list of people he wanted to feature, including Edward Snowden, Reeyot Alemu and Chelsea Manning. After the list was finalized, ten designers broke […]
Currently on view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Kate Cooper’s “Rigged” series features some of the glossiest, most fully-fleshed, corporate-budget-level CGI renders we’ve seen this year. They are immaculate, down to their wet gums, pores and eyelashes. According to DIS, the body of work “looks at the agency of the computer generated female within the glossy aesthetics […]
Instagram is getting into the analog curating game. On September 18th, the photo sharing network opened two small exhibitions at “Photoville” in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Now in its third year of converting shipping containers into mini-galleries, “Photoville” is a scrappy DIY event, which makes it an odd choice for the billion-dollar company, Instagram. However, “The Everyday Projects” and […]
So far this year, the city’s 311 hotline has received 452 graffiti complaints in Sunset Park, compared to only 225 in 2013. The graffiti is “most prevalent along Eighth Avenue, pillars under the Gowanus Expressway and certain pedestrian pathways,” DNAinfo reports, providing a nifty map illustrating city-wide statistics. Other neighborhoods where residents complained most included Greenpoint […]
After eight years, the once dilapidated rail line that has been transformed into a lush elevated park known as the High Line is complete. Construction began in 2006. The first section premiered in 2009. And last week, final section of the historic structure — that we gave you a sneak peak of via “drone” — was […]
