A masked vandal pays no attention to the drunken crowd on 1st Avenue and Saint Mark’s as he doodles onto a phone booth. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Red Hook Criterium began in 2008 as an illegal race, with a few dozen fixed-gear cyclists racing through the titular waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood to celebrate a friend’s 26th birthday. Five years later, the race has gone legit, evolving into a full-scale spectacle and drawing sponsorshop from Rockstar Games while keeping its original outlaw spirit intact. Thousands […]
At first, British photographer Martin Usborne just wanted to do some reporting on people who leave their dogs locked up in cars. But as he went around scouring parking lots, “making barking noises to try and awaken sleeping dogs that were not actually there,” his project took on a new artistic direction. “The Silence of […]
Opening tonight, in conjunction with their five-year anniversary, Free Art & Technology Lab is having an exhibition at Eyebeam. Lindsay Howard has curated F.A.T. Lab’s first retrospective, a group of twenty-five artists, hackers, engineers, musicians, and graffiti writers, each who have in some way been involved with Eyebeam. The Free Art and Technology Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research […]
This alphabet-themed series of photographs by Anastasia Mastrakouli is all like naked and stuff “utilizes the nude human form to highlight the dialectical relationship between anatomy and visual art. each image is the product of an experimental performance, rendered as a composition of a silhouette and surface while conforming to the shape of the English alphabet.” Thanks, […]
Remember that nice mini-documentary we posted a few weeks back, which showed Steve Powers painting a mural for the cover of Kurt Vile’s latest album? As The World’s Best Ever points out, there’s also a limited, custom version of the cover with all of ESPO’s art removed put onto individual stickers, so you can rearrange […]
Don’t let the title fool you. Brooklyn-based artist Will Kurtz’s upcoming exhibition “Another Shit Show” is an ambitious installation. With his knowledge of anatomy and love of dogs, Kurtz’ expressively depicted… dogs. Each sculptural work is created precisely to scale from a combination of discarded newspapers, scraps of wood, and wire. “Another Shit Show,” Will Kurtz, […]
Our ability to read into the emotions of others through body language — sometimes more accurately than through their words — is one of those psychological phenomenons that makes humans awesome. But could a computer do it better than a flesh-and-blood psychiatrist? The digital program SimSensei tries: It monitors users’ subtle body language and facial […]
Basuco, Colombia’s answer to crack cocaine, is a problem in Bogota. With an estimated .1 percent of the city addicted to the cheap, smokeable, insanely impure cocaine paste, officials may turn to a surprising but completely reasonable tool for treatment: cannabis. According to Univision and the BBC, Colombia’s capital plans to establish “controlled consumption centers” […]
In Othello, Shakespeare famously wrote that “Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.” Yep, turns out he was talking out of his ass. A recently published study from Aberystwyth University suggests that England’s most revered playwright was actually a rich, miserly landowner who took advantage of the poor and was repeatedly busted for tax […]
