If you’ve logged into Facebook during the past few days, you’ve noticed the Human Rights Campaign’s equals-sign-on-red logo making its way into all of your friends profile pictures. This campaign is aimed at bringing awareness to the organization and the topic of marriage equality. And this weed-themed art right here was aimed at getting Willie […]
“We lived together. I wouldn’t really call him my boyfriend. We did have relations but I don’t think that time was about girlfriends and boyfriends. We had multiple girlfriends and boyfriends. Sorry!” Alexis Adler is laughing. Yesterday, ArtInfo reported that Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “ex-girlfriend” had been hiding a trove of previously-unseen artifacts for thirty years in the apartment […]
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. As you may have heard, Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers dropped this month. As a tribute to the sartorial inspiration for James Franco’s Alien, we’re deconstructing one of RiFF RAFF’s best love […]
Earlier this morning, NME published an article about Nick Cave’s Heard NY performance in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall. Cool. Only it’s the wrong Nick Cave. Some of us may have predicted this mix-up but it’s still pretty amusing because NME is NME. So to clarify, there are two men named Nick Cave — a recording artist and an “artist” artist. Nick […]
Yesterday morning, Luxury Condo developers succeeded in knocking down the remaining four sections of the Berlin Wall’s mural-covered “East Side Gallery,” marking a bitter loss for the many protestors who have tried to prevent this cultural butchery for about a month now. Anticipating the outrage that the demolition would cause, 250 police officers gathered on […]
Lana Del Rey made what should have been an ill-advised move this week, releasing a cover of one of the most heartbreaking songs ever put to tape: Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No. 2.” She mostly stays true to Cohen’s meandering original, replicating the slowly majestic guitar and half-sung, half-muttered vocals, but adds huge, cavernous reverb […]
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is issuing an edict limiting police officers’ social media use, because the NYPD likes to focus on the important things. Cops will no longer be able to make reference to their jobs on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Friendster, or BlackPlanet, or post pictures of themselves in uniform, as “Members of the service […]
In 1999, the Brooklyn Museum displayed Holy Virgin Mary, a painting by the Turner Prize-winning painter Chris Ofili that incorporates elephant feces and images of female genitalia alongside an image of the Virgin Mary. The work offended the delicate sensibilities of then-mayor Rudy Giuliani and his Roman Catholic deputy mayor Joe Lhota, and what followed was a […]
Carrie, Flatiron District. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Lord only knows what’s going behind door 69 at the Lorimer Street L station. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
