Dramatic fair use art news!!! Rewind: In 2008, artist Richard Prince “Canal Zone” series incorporated the photographs of Patrick Cariou from his “Yes, Rasta” (2002) book for a successful, lucrative show at the Gagosian Gallery. Cariou sued from copyright infringement. In 2011, the court ruled against Prince and order the artist to destroy catalogue copies […]
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. Both of this week’s contestants are aging rap legends who’ve spent a lot of time in headlines recently: Jay-Z, for his trip to Cuba, “Open Letter,” and sale of […]
David Horvitz sent out a tweet last evening saying he is looking for a collector to purchase his student debt. Damn, I really wish I thought of this. Looking for a collector… twitter.com/davidhorvitz/s… — dh (@davidhorvitz) April 24, 2013 Let’s assume this is a a sincere gesture. Can the transition of the debt from Horvitz […]
Though every New York City school shuttered by Hurricane Sandy have since reopened, 50 schools across the five boroughs are still missing classroom tools that were lost in the storm, and only 25 of those have gotten a visit from FEMA. And though that federal agency will contribute more than half of the city’s $200 […]
And the Turner Prize 2013 nominees are in! The prize, organized by the Tate Gallery, is “UK’s most prestigious contemporary art award,” according to Tate.org. The winner gets $38,000 and everyone else on the shortlist gets $8,000. Also, This year, David Fucking Shrigley has been nominated. Also, these people: The nominees are: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for “Extracts […]
Earth’s proud tradition of drawing dicks on things has finally gone interstellar. Some intrepid Redditors spotted the above image on a NASA robotics site, and when the site went down–presumably due to increased traffic–NASA made the planetary penis more accessible, putting it on its own page. It appears that the cosmic cock is the work […]
What would a chemical attack on NYC look like? How would poisonous gases spread, through the lines of the subway and above ground? These are some of the questions the NYPD and a team of researchers hope to answer this July, when they’ll disperse colorless, odorless, and apparently harmless gases called perflourocarbons around the city […]
Patricia, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s what JR’s “Inside Out” project in Times Square looked like as of this afternoon. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Toronto-based photographer Genevieve Blais puts an erotic spin on Victorian-style portraiture with her subversive series “Art History.” By thrusting sexual fetishism and gender-bending into classically bland and prudish portraits of royalty, Blais creates a harrowing dissonance that critiques the antiquated social norms that still govern our society today. In the words of the artist herself: […]
