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On Friday, OG urban artist Ron English began to roll-out his work on the Houston-Bowery Wall, literally. Perched on a scissor lift with two assistants, he could be seen busily slathering the surface with wheatpaste and gluing up panels that depict some of his most iconic (and potentially polarizing) Popaganda imagery. One of the pieces […]
Internal Affairs is investigating if Thomas Georgevitch, an accused police impersonator who had fake guns and badges and told his landlord he was an officer, had inappropriate access to the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct with the blessing of an NYPD lieutenant, the New York Daily News reports. According to witnesses, on multiple occasions Georgevitch chauffeured Lt. […]
At least three people were stabbed in the Union Square subway station around 4 AM on Friday morning, reports Pix11. Police told CBSNewYork that two groups of men entered “a dispute” in front of Webster Hall and continued fighting on the subway platform near 4th Avenue and 14th Street. One man had a gashed across […]
Gilberto Valle, the media-branded “Cannibal Cop,” didn’t actually eat anyone. He was convicted in March 2013 of kidnapping conspiracy, but that conviction was later overturned when the judge ruled that the evidence indicated Valle’s gruesome forum posts about kidnapping, killing, and eating women were just sick fantasy. Valle could still face life in prison if […]
2008 was not that long ago. In the evolution of gay acceptance in America, however, 2008 was effectively a generation ago. Since 2008, the moral, political, legal and societal conversations around homosexuality have dramatically shifted in favor of us gays — in the mainstream, at least. For minorities, it’s a different story. Being Indian-American, I […]
Tad, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti writer HOUND offers his critique of legal murals on the newly renovated and just unveiled Bowery Wall: “Fuck a mural.” (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
UPDATE: Joel and Aaron Israel pleaded not guilty to seven charges on Thursday afternoon, including fraud, burglary, grand larceny, submitting false documents and unlawful eviction, the New York Times reports. The burglary charge, the most serious of the allegations, comes from a 2014 incident where an employee deputized by the Israels entered an apartment at […]
An art bot and the random items it bought from the deep web with its weekly $100 bitcoin allowance was returned to art collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik after being taken into police custody months ago, sans its stash of 10 Twitter-branded ecstasy pills. Those were destroyed. Swiss authorities initially seized the entire exhibit from the gallery […]
Last night was the 5th Annual Brooklyn Artists Ball to honor the Museum Director Arnold Lehman. The dinner guests flooded the Brooklyn Museum, where the art banquet tables were displayed, before eating all over them. Olek‘s yarn-bombed actors roamed about, FAILE‘s backlit table put a glow on the guests and explosions sounded from the direction […]
