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October 4, 2013 Marina Galperina

Massive Attack V Adam Curtis (2013, at Park Avenue Armory) Adam Curtis “documentary” W GIANT IMPORTANT WORDS — a beautiful pulsating super-cut of found-ish footage re: NEWS/GOVERNMENTS/DONALD TRUMP/THE SARCOPHAGUS OF DATA/RUSSIAN PUNK MUSIC FROM SIBERIA/ALGORITHMS OF SUBMISSION/WAR IN AFGHANISTAN… USA/RUSSIA/YOU.. etc. on many LARGE screens. U stand 4 movie but its really a concert. Massive […]

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Kyle Chayka

If you’re a major auction house like Christie’s and Sotheby’s (who isn’t!), you should be looking over your shoulder: China is coming for you. As its middle class grows, the country is doing to high-end art sales what it once did to manufacturing: adopting it and profiting from it. Today, the New York Times profiled the […]

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Kyle Chayka

Artist and composer Ben Grosser created a new Google Chrome extension that, when enabled, automatically adds a passage of additional algorithmically generated text to your emails containing many of the keywords known to trigger the National Security Agency‘s email surveillance systems. This extension, in theory, works as a trap to not only force these systems to […]

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October 3, 2013 Andy Cush

Press play and try to imagine you’ve just taken some very good drugs and just hopped on the subway on your way home. You’re not quite ready for the claustrophobia of the train, but once you’re on, you relax, and it’s actually quite nice. Sit back and enjoy. (If you’re interested, it’s actually Metro, a piece […]

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David Cotner

The shock of the new is a difficult thing to renew. This is an era in which continued exploration of outer space is expressly whelming, intellectual incuriosity wins friends and influences people, and thousands of musical instruments lay broken in city schools while hotly heralded iPads are promised and then somehow mislaid. There comes a […]

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Marina Galperina

From a flattened, remixed kid-face shuffling on a video billboard in Detroit, to the epic mutant on the exquisite corpse Tumblr project Cloaque, Rollin Leonard has been exhibiting photography-based work since 2004. It’s body horror… if body horror was very nice to look at. His first solo show of polished plexiglass’ed sculptures, looped moving images and digital collages “Trunks, Stems and […]

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Andy Cush

It’s day three of Better Out Than In, Banksy’s month-long “artist’s residency on the streets of New York,” and accordingly, a new piece has popped up. This one’s on 24th and 6th, and notably, it wasn’t actually done today–a tipster sent us photos yesterday afternoon. We weren’t sure if it was legit, so we sat on […]

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October 2, 2013 Marina Galperina

This “New Tarot” series from Noah Spidermen aka Special Projects for the State of Eternity II is kind of great. The Lovers are Ok Cupid, obviously, and The Hermit is Netflix, of course… He’s been submitting them to The Jogging and getting on, consistently. Isn’t that like, the sweet spot of all The Jogging submission acceptances? […]

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Kyle Chayka

Brian Droitcour is a writer, translator and curator who has has his writings published in Artforum as well as Rhizome, but since sometime last year he has been prolifically contributing to Yelp, writing countless reviews of art galleries and their subsequent exhibitions, check out the example below: Commissioned by the New Museum’s First Look, “Fifteen Stars” is a new website […]

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October 1, 2013 Kyle Chayka

The New Museum smelled like gasoline, and I didn’t mind one bit. Before the public opening of Chris Burden’s exhibition “Extreme Measures” the press got a preview of the work and the live performance of The Big Wheel. Occupying all five floors of the museum, the exhibition marks the first expansive presentation of Burden’s groundbreaking works […]

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