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Here’s a mini-doc featuring Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets, the notorious duo of IRL art trolls, artists, philosophers, vandals, Yellowists. It features the Yellowists explaining Yellowism and screenshots of all the press hate/bemusement. Last year, Umanets was sentenced to two years in prison for writing his name on a Rothko at Tate Modern, turning it into […]
New York will be joining Texas, Hawaii, Washington and California when the Public School Athletic League establishes a wrestling league entirely for girls, beginning in March and ending with a tournament in May. The plan is to have 16 teams for around 300 girls, spanning from all five boroughs. There will be 12 weight classes. […]
Never has coulrophobia been realized so perfectly than with this glossy, sinister, saturated clown bondage-fest titled Paradise The Club. This gloriously grotesque series by Amsterdam-based photographer Erwin Olaf is one of the more figurative interpretations of the theme behind the current issue of Foam Magazine, “#33/Trip” — “about the sense of being in transit, in a place or […]
Submergence, a transfixing immersive installation of wired-up LEDs is the latest iteration of Ocean of Light, an ongoing project expanding digital visual media into the third dimension by the decade-old art and research collective Squidsoap. The work, sometimes referred to as a low-res “volumetric visualization” was on view in Norway earlier this month and reminds […]
Ever wonder what it takes to rule Twitter? A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have reduced the art of increasing your followers to a simple science. After studying 500 different (non-celebrity) Twitter accounts over a period of fifteen months, they concluded that the most popular Twitters are, most importantly, those that […]
A couple weeks ago, science informed us that we shared traits with goddamn rat-things. (Radiolab is being a little more diplomatic and calling the creature “shrew-like,” but let’s be real, it’s a goddamn rat.) Now, Radiolab and the American Museum of Natural History are asking us to think of a good name for this ancestor […]
It’s curious when people find a joke so offensive their immediate reaction is to discuss it in detail with as many people as possible. Some would say that this is counterproductive, like buying a Dixie Chicks CD in order to smash it in front of news cameras. However without bemoaning the transgression to your sensibility […]
A study by the Cardiff University Otter Project and the Chemicals, Health, and Environment Monitoring Trust shows a strong correlation between pollutants and hormone-disrupting chemicals in otters’ ecosystem and gradually shrinking penis sizes in the males of the species. And because chemicals that effect one mammal often effect other’s, it’s possible that those same chemicals may […]
The grotesque beauty of humans and other animals has long been a central theme of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s work. For The Carrier, a piece currently on display as part of Haunch of Venison’s “How to Tell the Future From the Past” exhibition, lies somewhere between the realms of human, ape, and alien. “This exhibition examines the […]
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced it will partially reopen Coney Island’s New York Aquarium this spring, after it was shuttered in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Though there’s no word on when exactly the public will get to hang out with him, but the conservation society wants us to know that Mitik, the semi-celebrity baby […]
