“CNN” recently reported that Larry Gagosian will host an exhibition of George W. Bush’s paintings, a source of fascination, dogs and naked George W. Bush. Only, it wasn’t really reported by CNN, but its citizen journalist initiative iReport and this article is not vetted. A “mock flyer” of American Legacy the exhibit was “anonymously leaked online […]
Late in the week Kimani Gray was shot and killed by police in East Flatbush, Mayor Bloomberg attempted to offer condolences and sympathy to Gray’s mother, attempts that were firmly denied. “We weren’t interested in the photo op,” said Kenneth J. Montgomery, one of Gray’s lawyers. “In the totem pole of important things and important emotions, […]
Carly Rae Jepsen appears to be taking a page out of Rivers Cuomo’s book, asking her fans to decide the lyrics to her new song in a series of online polls. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), what could have been a challenging, forward-thinking project is actually fairly sterile, as Jepsen and the poll’s sponsors–American Idol and Coca-Cola–are […]
Ari, Lower East Side. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Christ, who is this supposed to be? (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
One of Brad Pitt’s earliest, smallest roles was also one of his greatest: in the 1993 pop masterpiece True Romance, the actor took on the role of Floyd, a happy-go-lucky, long-haired stoner who got all of two scenes before accidentally tipping off the bad guys. Now, the artist Glen Baldridge has created a functional tribute to the […]
Nick Cave’s immersive performance art piece HEARD NY premiered at the Grand Central Metro station, filling the space with a gentle rustling sound. Each of the 30 uniquely-crafted horse-suits required two dancers from the Alvin Ailey Dance School to maneuver. The horses “graze” by shifting around and trotting in circles, then breaking into choreographed dance routines set to […]
New York artist Molly Crabapple has been busy. Following the great success of her Kickstarter and her intensive research, she’s spent days and days and days in her studio, immaculately painting corrupt fatcats, worker mice, and feminine mascots of 2011’s biggest revolutions and crises — an android-like Anonymous, a towering Occupy dangling plastic police bracelets and modern feminist […]
Floating ominously inside the Apexart gallery is a massive, crinkly, mirrored balloon. It is a reconstructed version of NASA’s 1958 “Beacon Inflatable Satellite,” an early “sateloon” prototype that marked the beginnings of human space exploration. The Beacon was a preliminary model for Echo 1, a much larger version launched by NASA in 1960 that was […]
Created by the developers Pitch Interactive, this animated infographic plots every U.S. drone strike and all associated casualties. In just a few seconds, a flurry of strikes and deaths appear, beginning in 2004 and drastically upticking in 2008-2009, when Pervez Musharraf resigned as president of Pakistan and President Obama took office in the states. All […]
