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April 16, 2013 Andy Cush

After a long string of “faggots” and misguided beefs, here’s a welcome reminder of why you cared about Azealia Banks in the first place. Over a throbbing, snare-heavy track from Lil Internet, Azealia delivers her characteristically slippery verses in a flat monotone before hitting a cathartic distorted yell for the hook. And the video–oh, the […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

The sinister relationship between nature and artificiality pervades Portia Munson‘s “Reflecting Pool,” her fourth exhibition at the PPOW Gallery. Initially inspired by the innate utopian beauty of flower structures, the Massachusetts-born artist scanned intricately arranged flower petals and scavenged dead animals to create a series of mandala-like images. Alongside her prints of petal-adorned wildlife shrines […]

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Marina Galperina

Calling #art #netpeople! We’ve been digging around French artist and video designer Michaël Borras aka Systaime‘s stash of stuff and this gives me jollies. It feels rather vintage — after all, Emoji Art History is kind of the shit right now. Are we still doing that? If you don’t like that, look at this 8-bit’ed and datamoshed Rihanna, but this is rather […]

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Daniel Kolitz

This week, Printed Internet summarizes humanity’s successes and failures as one Metacritic article. Printed Internet is who can also be found here. […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

From Taxi Driver to Gangs of New York, the films of Martin Scorsese have immortalized New York. That’s why the call the Queens-born director “the unofficial biographer of New York City.” And so, San Francisco’s Spoke Art Gallery has opted to curate their Martin Scorsese art show tribute here in the Big Apple. This weekend, stop by the […]

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Andy Cush

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes courtesy of the Boston fuzz-pop band Earthquake Party, and provides a clear lineage for their brand of raggedy, hook-driven jams. Guitarist Justin Lally was kind enough to provide commentary […]

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Kyle Chayka

Federal agents raided the well-known Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side earlier this morning. There’s a pending investigation involving a Russian organized crime group known to host illegal high-stakes poker matches, many of which are said to cater to Hollywood celebrities, wealthy Wall Street financiers as well as numerous professional athletes. Dozens were arrested […]

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Marina Galperina

So, this one time, notorious contemporary artists Eva and Franco Mattes showed a couple of people the most horrible videos ever made, dug out of the internet, still embedded in the volunteers brains, goddammit. Their YouTube-style reaction videos were edited into Emily’s Video. It’s a brilliant, devastating 15-minute work of video art. Last seen at the Moving Image […]

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Andy Cush

The American Civil Liberties Union is appealing a court decision that allows the CIA and the Obama administration to keep secret their legal justification for its drone strike program. The decision, passed by U.S. District Court Judge Colleen McMahon of New York in January, is almost comical in its catch-22 thorniness: … this court is constrained […]

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Marina Galperina

“This is currently empty,” says Spotify. EMPTY LIKE MY SOUL. Last time you quit. Do you want to try again? If your entire interface mocking your existence, you are not alone. I mean, you’re “alone,” of course. But… here’s an entire gallery of depressing screenshots, blips and blips of pedestrian digital banality, all very sad. […]

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