Tag: clowns
Last year, Deadspin’s Greg Howard called odious conservative blogger Chuck Johnson a “clowntroll,” a portmanteau of “clown” and “troll” that gets at both how Johnson says irresponsibly provocative things for the sake of attention and is completely ridiculous and absurd while doing it. This description also applies to a certain Republican presidential candidate/noted Worst Person […]
Julinek was once the Juilliard of the circus. For more than 40 years, 1500 teachers, artists, technicians, clowns, gymnasts, and jugglers lived in a “circus city” in the middle of Kampinoski National Park, 18 miles from Warsaw, Poland. Julinek closed over a decade ago and the circus city started to dwindle and die. Photographer Rafal Milach took […]
Passengers at the Times Square-42nd Street station tattled on two clowns Wednesday night leading to the subway performers’ arrest. Since the two didn’t have permits, they were charged with “loitering with the purpose of entertaining,” and hauled off to a Midtown police station. Though they seemed in good spirits. “They sang the Beatles song ‘Goodnight’ […]
Do not be alarmed by the very large very sad clown prowling City Hall Park. It’s art! Entitled dog days are over, the performance piece by Swiss-American Ugo Rondinone is part of an outdoor sculpture exhibition called Lightness of Being; and will feature the guy above sitting around, staring at his lap and contemplating existence every day from […]
Never has coulrophobia been realized so perfectly than with this glossy, sinister, saturated clown bondage-fest titled Paradise The Club. This gloriously grotesque series by Amsterdam-based photographer Erwin Olaf is one of the more figurative interpretations of the theme behind the current issue of Foam Magazine, “#33/Trip” — “about the sense of being in transit, in a place or […]
