Category: Takeover
It is a sad state of affairs when would-be graffiti artists get caught by the police in a city as big as New York, where there is plenty of real crime vying for the NYPD’s attention. So, please take the following advice and you will save us and yourself some late nights at the courthouse. […]
What happened since Rosalind Krauss introduced the term “postmedia,” full of semiotic contradictions? After Felix Guattari used the expression “post-media era” and producer and consumer melted within the media, dissecting themselves? What happened after Miss Krauss wrote A Voyage in the North Sea. Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition, chatting about post-medium, killing […]
Just after 2pm on Saturday, a skywriting plane hired by Smart Crew filled the sky with the names of the graffiti collective. Although the billowy letters dissipated quickly due to high winds, the likes of “DCEVE,” “HEFNER,” “CON,” “DESPOT,” “MARTY,” “VYELS,” “HSO,” and “SNOMAN” (they must have spelled it wrong), could be seen floating above […]
This is Press ESC to Escape, a 2013 painting by artist Jeanette Hayes. The work is rendered in oil over a chromogenic print on canvas. The original image was Photoshopped and put on Instagram by artist Mattie Hillock a year ago, with the caption “I’m sick of looking for jobs.” Hayes commented, “I wan 2 paint dis.” Hillock […]
At 12:37PM on Wednesday, the NYPD instructed carriage horse drivers based in Central Park to return to their stables due to 90-degree heat. Once the temperature reaches 90 or above, it’s a NYC law that all horses must be brought back to shelter. But carriage driver and industry head Christina Hansen broke the law, according […]
It’s been a terrible summer for reproductive rights. The Supreme Court struck down “buffer zones” preventing anti-abortion protestors from approaching clinic entrances and patients. The Hobby Lobby decision ruled that corporations can deny birth control health coverage based on their corporate personhood’s religious preferences, making Planned Parenthood as important as ever in providing these resources. Recently, artist Marilyn Minter collaborated with American […]
Jason Wulf, a Queens resident who’s better known to the world as graffiti legend DG, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 42. Hailing from Ridgewood, DG was a prolific writer, artist, and founder of NWC (New Wave Crew). His tags, his throw ups, his fill-ins, his pieces, his canvasses — were all dope. […]
Theodore, Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Joon-ho Bong’s South Korean/American train epic based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige is strange, dark, bilingual post-Apocalyptic sci-fi. Lower class passengers of a train that’s been rattling in a circle around a dead frozen Earth wasteland for years struggle to survive until R E B E L L I O N WTF: 4.0 out of 5.0 […]
Yesterday, artist David OReilly released Mountain, a simulator-style $1.00 game for Mac/PC/Linux/iOS. Upon install, some are asked to scribble “love,” others “confusion” or “meaning” or “purpose,” and then, the mountain generates. These are the game features: no controls automatic save audio on/off switch time moves forward things grow and things die nature expresses itself ~ 50 hours of […]
