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Aren’t Kenny Scharf’s off-street on-canvas doughnut paintings beautiful? Don’t you just want to put them all up in your mouth? Aright then. ARTINFO reports that Doughnut Plan‘s Chelsea location is serving up specially made doughnuts for Scharf’s opening at the Paul Kasmin Gallery tomorrow night. Gallery director Bethanie Brady says: The Doughnut Plant is creating their organic […]
Buzz Aldrin’s 44-year-old toothbrush is just one of many of the extravagantly priced but ultimately pretty sweet items up for sale in an upcoming auction of space memorabilia from Heritage Auctions. There’s also an armrest from the Apollo 17 mission (starting bid: $7,500), an Apollo 16 wrist mirror ($10,000), and a Fender Strat (yup) signed by […]
With 100% less dickishness! Finally, a dumb brilliant meme that requires no destruction of other people’s property. Kids these days — so considerate, amirite? […]
David Thomas Smith created these striking digital colleges by taking thousands of images from Google Maps, then stitching them together in Photoshop. And besides making the aerial view of your backyard look just like that totally trippy poster you had in college, the pieces have a more critical intent. By refracting the landscapes into repeating, kaleidoscopic […]
To call attention to the dismal state of the Gowanus Canal and the controversial federal effort to clean it up, a group of actors and activists will stage a century-old play near the mouth of the waterway. Why a play? An Enemy of the People, penned in 1882, concerns the citizens of a highly polluted waterfront village. […]
Jayson, Tompkins Square Park. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This bear is recovering from an unfortunate night on a Chelsea sidewalk. (Photo: Micah Schmidt/Shit in the Streets) […]
Greek photojournalist Myrto Papadopoulos brings us these beautiful, almost otherworldly photos of prostitutes in their workplaces. The ongoing photo project, called The Attendants, examines Greece’s ever-evolving sex industry and its relationship with the economic crisis. Prostitution is legal in Greece, but only in licensed brothels — Papadopoulos shot both legal and illegal sex workers for […]
ANIMAL has been hot for Lepos: The Primary Invasion clips since the start, so we talked to the man behind these vintage video game x graffiti mash-ups after he dropped this 6th reel featuring CES and REVOK in the LES. Lepos‘ ten-year writing run ended in 2003, but he still has love for graffiti. So, what does CES think […]
If you’ve spent any real time on Craiglist you know that it’s mostly just a place to get rid of last year’s Ikea furniture. Occasionally you find something so silly, so poorly written, and so ridiculous that you have to tell someone. Someone is selling a painting on Craigslist for $45,000. Perhaps the only thing more ridiculous […]
