Skateboarding dogs are great and all, but there’s a certain immediacy that’s lacking in even the greatest skateboarding dog videos. How am I supposed to fully enjoy the experience of watching a YouTube video of a dog skateboarding if I can’t even get a hint of what skateboarding is like from the dog’s point of view, like I […]
Hugo, Staten Island. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Molly Crabapple rests in a bathtub of fake money during her public opening for the Shell Game at the Smart Clothes Gallery in Manhattan. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) The Shell Game, Molly Crabapple! vine.co/v/bFnXPPxZriX The Shell Game, Molly Crabapple! vine.co/v/bFnXPPxZriX — Marina Galperina (@mfortki) April 15, 2013 […]
Last night’s opening of “Who Shot Natalie White” at the ROX Gallery in LES was, unsurprisingly, received by quite the controversy among locals. In response to the bountiful display of boobs and self-pleasuring facing out onto Delancey Street, some outraged elderlies called upon the police to put an end to the unsavory scene. But boys […]
Stop. Now, drown in these undulating pixels. Feel the infinite RGB ripple splash past your eyeballs. That’s FLOOD. Computers Club member Nicolas Sassoon knows what he’s doing. Sassoon is currently exhibiting at the May gallery and artist residency in New Orleans, presenting a show of large-scale video projections and physical sculptures derived from his animated digital works. Like FLOOD, the Green […]
There’s a distinctly modern aesthetic preoccupation with abandoning strict narrative in favor of immersive sensory experience. Think of the films of Harmony Korine, or the drop-heavy electronic dance music that’s currently en vogue, which shuns the long, slow builds of previous genres and embraces isolated tableaux of overwhelming sound (there’s a reason Skrillex showed up […]
Artist Simon Faithful once set out to walk, climb, wade, swim and walk underwater across the United Kingdom along the Greenwich Meridian, the entire United Kingdom, from the English Channel to the North Sea. The artist demonstrates his preoccupation with the notion that human hyperactivity is utterly futile in the bigger scheme of things. Ultimately, the […]
Come July 1st, Google Reader will be dead–cold and lifeless like Han Solo frozen in carbonite, only everyone’s favorite RSS client isn’t ever coming back. What’s a lonely serial content consumer to do? It may not quite fill the Google-shaped hole in your heart, but StaRSS is a start. Created by Github user fotcorn, the […]
One reason that human beings create art — whether literary, musical, or visual — is to better understand the world that we live in and how we perceive it. But what happens when that world is suddenly turned upside-down and nothing follows the rules? Struck by an ear disorder that threw his sense of reality out of […]
Jayson Musson, I <3 you. The New York artist’s “Hennessy Youngman” persona aka YouTube’s best art critic is back with a hot new mixtape that recreates the experience of lonely shopping at CVS. Presenting: “CVS Bangers.” CVS BANGERS IS THE AUDIOSCAPE FOR WHEN YOU’RE BUYING TAMPONS OR A 12 PACK OF CONDOMS, A SAMPLING OF THOSE […]
