Category: Takeover
A 33-year-old doctor who worked for Doctors With Borders and recently returned from Guinea has been rushed to Bellevue Hospital with a suspected case of Ebola. It’s also been reported that the man, Dr. Craig Spencer, took Uber car service to a bowling alley in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. There are two bowling alleys in Williamsburg, Brooklyn […]
Jesse Eisenberg is starring in a new movie that uses Brooklyn’s Red Hook as a backdrop for the war-torn Gaza Strip, but has recreated Palestinian propaganda posters without using proper Arabic. A scene set up on Thursday for Louder Than Bombs called for female actors wearing headscarves — presumably Palestinian Muslims — who were instructed […]
In his new exhibition at Foxy Production, Michael Bell-Smith explores the ways in which the anything-goes-free-speech-zone of the internet can result in chaotic misinformation and mindless call-and-response. The exhibition takes its title from the classic Looney Tunes short, Rabbit Season, Duck Season. Elmer Fudd is “hunting wabbits,” because it’s rabbit season. Daffy Duck is hanging around, […]
L.A.-based artist Matthew LaPenta is back at it again with his Facebook-trolling art, but this time he’s brought it directly to the source: posting up on the social media giant’s campus. In an homage to Orwell’s 1984 character, LaPenta has dedicated his latest piece to Facebook founder and fluent speaker of Chinese Mark Zuckerberg by […]
Comedian/street artist Hanksy pasted up this “Eazy-E Bola” on the corner of Division and Canal Streets in Chinatown and posted it on his Instagram with the caption “Straight Outta Congo.” The piece mashes up the Ebola epidemic that has been spreading through West Africa with Eazy-E, the rapper who died from that other Africa-originating plague, AIDS. Forgetting for […]
Dozens of buskers assembled at the Metropolitan Avenue G station late Tuesday afternoon to show their support for fellow subway performer Andrew Kalleen, whose arrest by the NYPD went viral after a video of the incident was posted to YouTube. The footage shows a cop reading the law that permits busking and then busting Kalleen. […]
Ingrid, Central Park. (Photo: KiGos) […]
“If people scream it’s a round of applause for us, but if they have to leave because they’re having a panic attack, that’s a standing ovation,” said John Harlacher, co-director of Nightmare, New York City’s most controversial and longest running haunted house that’s located on the Lower East Side. Now in its 11th season, Harlacher […]
Someone attempted to deface Banksy’s new Girl With A Pierced Eardrum mural just hours after it was discovered near the Bristol Marina, but failed, terribly. The haphazardly thrown black paint makes it look more like an unholy collaboration with Mr. Brainwash than it does a wanton act of vandalism. (Photo: IVTV News West Country) […]
Walking by the alley at Crosby and Jersey Streets in Soho earlier today, it might have seemed like a ton of brand new graffiti just went up, but upon closer inspection, everything is fake, including the dead body and NYPD detectives inspecting it. The make believe crime scene is part of the set for a […]
