The city is ordering a longstanding hurricane relief center on Staten Island to close its doors and move elsewhere, in anticipation of the beginning of summer and beach season. The Cedar Grove Community Hub, a complex of five tents, sits at the entrance to New Dorp Beach, which the Parks Department says needs work before […]
Oswald, Jamaica. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The NYC Department of Transportation has commissioned artists to embellish concrete barriers along the FDR Drive in Manhattan (so far they’ve done between 25th and 27th Streets) as part of an ongoing beautification project. (Photo: NYC DOT/Flickr) […]
Continuing our highlight coverage of Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference, here’s another cool project born from a one-day intense session of design and planning between and an artist and a technologist. In a collaboration between technologist and digital music entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell and New York-based artist, musician, and composer Fatima Al Qadiri, here’s your alternative to THE SAME DAMN ALERT FOR EVERYTHING. […]
Some residents of NYC’s “historic districts” are unhappy with CitiBike, NYC’s otherwise very exciting and eco-friendly Bike Share program. The much-anticipated CitiBike stations have only just begun popping up around the city, and residents of neighborhoods like TriBeCa, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill have already decided that they’re ugly and THEY HATE THEM. In attempt to remove these […]
If you enjoyed the guilty pleasures of “Call Me a Hole” — Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” music and Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like a Hole” vocals in a mash-up by PomDeter — here’s something else you can slap yourself hard in the face for liking. Better late than never, here’s ToTom’s answer — “Call You a […]
Your chance to be featured in one of JR’s signature wheatpaste pieces has finally arrived, and you don’t even have to travel to a developing nation to do it. From now until May 10, a mobile photo booth will be stationed in Times Square, taking portraits of passersby and printing them out on giant posters […]
To hell with the Armory. Pffft on Frieze. I know where I’m going — Konjic, Bosnia bitches! Perhaps you’ve heard of the “Retro-Avantgardist” band Laibach. Laibach began as an avant-garde musical side project of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective from Slovenia in the ’80s. They were surpassingly successful. They dressed sharp, subverting propaganda imagery (Christian, Fascist, Communist) into non-political iconography of […]
America’s favorite arson-preventing propagandist bear, Smokey, is back (just in time for Earth Day), but his message is still the same. “Only You Can Prevent Wildfires,” reads the iconic slogan on a billboard in a low income area of Bed Stuy — a demographic notorious for torching forests. According to a colleague, the ads are […]
Continuing our coverage of Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference, here’s another exciting project born from a one-day intense session of design and planning between and an artist and a technologist. British-born installation artist Matthew Ritchie was paired with technologist Billy Chasen of turntable.fm. They created dabit.org — a charity website that “gives back.” The premise of the site is simple: “Every […]