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Art21 made a short video profile of Barry McGee and it includes footage of his street-bombing alter ego TWIST painting trains and other things. The clips of him doing graffiti are not exclusive, but the interview with him is. It was conducted in 2012 during his retrospective exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific […]
Yesterday, the City of New York agreed to pay over $365,000 to settle a lawsuit over the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library. When the NYPD unceremoniously raided and evicted the Zuccotti Park Occupy encampment in November 2011, officers destroyed the library and many of the 5,500 books inside. As Allison Burtch put it […]
If you came of age any time in the past twenty years, chances are that your notion of a “dinosaur” was, at least partially, influenced by the CGI beasts of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Guess what? Remember those blood-thirsty velociraptors, their hungry grunting sounds and that weird dino-language they used to communicate? Yeah, those were […]
Known as the Warhol superstar, beloved as a poet and LES legend, 88-year-old Taylor Mead is leaving the city. The Anthology Film Archives moved up his talk before the screening of Cleopatra with Nico from the weekend to last night to accomodate his scheduled departure. If you hadn’t caught him, you won’t see him for awhile. You won’t hear recite […]
Nik, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
The demolition clock is ticking for 5 Pointz and according to one art group, they must leave by August. (Photo: Thomas Hawk/Flickr) […]
Yesterday, an ad backed by a coalition of liberal groups that paints City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn as duplicitous and with ties to big business premiered on NY1, MSNBC, and Cablevision. Today, an outraged Quinn decried the attack ad as false, and her legal team contacted Time Warner Cable to have the ads […]
I tried to steal art this weekend. All of my friends assured me jail time was an option. “Har har, you’re gonna get arrested!” Look. I just wanted to prove a point by stealing some art. Artists can get away with all sorts of criminal actions just by calling it Art with a capital “A.” […]
The Knife have been uncharacteristically forthcoming in recent months: dropping the masks, giving long-ranging interviews, “explaining” their intentions in a manifesto. Today, they released “The Interview,” a short film by Marit Östberg (who also directed the “Full of Fire” video), in which they lay out their intentions with new album Shaking the Habitual a little more […]
Here’s a fun little game that’s backed by SCIENCE! Recent studies suggest that certain aspects of your personality and future health can be predicted by your finger length — the “digit ratio” of your ring and index fingers, specifically. While doctors aren’t making diagnosis’ based on finger length just yet, scientists have found some fairly […]
