Category: Takeover
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Smith & Mills 71 N Moore St, Tribeca, Manhattan The Great Georgiana 248 Dekalb Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn National 723 Fulton, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Ippudo […]
Banksy’s latest Better Out Than In piece arrives in a markedly more off-the-beaten trail neighborhood than any of the work so far: East New York, Brooklyn. It’s got none of the overt political commentary of yesterday’s Wikileaks-referencing piece: this one is just a small stenciled Beaver, knocking down a “No Parking” sign. We’re on our way to […]
Timbo, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
There’s all sorts of theories on why Banksy’s NYC-based Better Out Than In work is getting stomped out so quickly. According to one “graffiti historian,” writers don’t like Banksy’s art because he’s “pandering to the mainstream.” But that’s not it, graffiti has always attempted to poke its stick into the mainstream, even while its participants–for […]
Here’s the latest piece in Banksy’s Better Out Than In series. It’s a lot bigger than what we’ve seen before, spanning the sides of both a car and what looks like the back of a box truck, and depicts three horses wearing night vision goggles along with warplanes, crosshairs, and anguished-looking people. It’s somewhere on the Lower East […]
New York photographer Nate “Igor” Smith of Driven By Boredom has just ended his road trip, most of which he spent traveling along Route 66 with friends, friends who enjoy posing nude next to roadside attractions. Inspired by Americana photographs of John Margolies, Nate spent 31-days on the road and shot 67 rolls of film. One got got lost. So he […]
Nanny, Morris Park. (Photo: Abian Sacks/Flickr) […]
It has been exactly a week since Banksy started putting up work in Chelsea, Red Hook, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Williamsburg and the Lower East Side for his highly-hyped New York “residency” Better Out Than In. A photo of each piece would first pop up on Banksy’s official website with a name of a neighborhood and a bit of door, wall or […]
That was fast. The door on Freeman Street where Banksy put his “Plato” piece in Greenpoint has already been completely removed, hinges and all, leaving an empty entranceway. Michael, the owner of the building (he didn’t want to give a last name), said he’d be taking the door off the premises, and that he didn’t […]
Remember those billboards that popped up around town last week, ostensibly advertising things like the NSA and internet regulation? We knew the ads were part of a teaser campaign, and now, BitTorrent, Inc. is taking responsibility. That’s a lot more interesting than I was expecting. The company unmasked itself today by altering the ads to […]
