Multi-media artist Hunter Jonakin — maker of our favorite video game Jeff Koons Must Die!!! — is working on a new project. He’s foraying into the realm of performance art. This isn’t art meant to sell a gallery. It’s art meant for you — the audience. Many of these clever performances are deeply rooted in trolling the “art […]
Ah, historic Jamestowne. The very first settlement of our great colonial ancestors. The glorious Chesapeake Bay, the mighty James Fort, the abundance of lush wildlife! It must have been a wonderful place to live, save for a couple teensy kinks — like rampant disease, constant rape and pillaging, decimation of Native Americans and, apparently, CANNIBALISM. Whether the early […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week’s Sample Wars presents a novel case. Like usual, both Chance the Rapper’s “Everybody’s Something” (released this week on his new mixtape Acid Rap) and Slum Village’s “Fall […]
Fall into the very undulating orifice of cyberspace with artist Faith Holland’s new project! VIRTUAL GRRL presents, www.VVVVVV.xxx — freshly premiered, just in time for the National Masturbation Month. Navigate the familiar landscape of a porn portal and get baited into right onto animated GIFs, cyberpoetry, lecture videos, and mesmerizing miscellany. I’ve been wandering around it’s pop-up […]
You’re a tourist in New York City, looking to add a bit of old-world charm to your evening out with your loved one. Naturally, after leaving the theater, you head uptown to Central Park for a romantic trip in an one of the city’s iconic horse-drawn carriages old-timey electric cars. That’s the vision of the […]
A neighborhood that’s been embattled by everything from colossal storms to toxic sludge in recent months has a new hero, as artist Dean Haspiel’s latest comic features a former rascally thief who cleans up his act to become a reluctant crime-fighter. His name? The Red Hook, naturally. Red Hook “yields those kinds of characters,” Haspiel told […]
Joe Lhota would like you to get off his lawn, please. At a candidates forum this week, the Republican mayoral candidate and former MTA chair and Giuliani lieutenant governor took a host of positions at stark odds with the city’s quickly growing demographic of meddling kids. Enjoy living in a converted warehouse space in East […]
Barnes, Greenpoint. (Photo: Aymann Islamil/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Julian Schnabel is hanging artworks, throwing fancy parties and skateboarding all over the Domino Sugar Factory because he can. (Photo: @CreativeTimeNYC) […]
Your va-jay-jay called! It wants to talk about anarcho-syndicalism. This Tumblr is amazing. While you may never be able to leaf through the pages of Cosmarxpolitan to learn the dirty deets of mega-babe Antonio Gramsci’s sex life, or why Kropotkin thinks anarchism is the new black (it so is), these first seven mock-covers will provide […]
