Tag: The New York Times
This time-lapse video documents the lifespan of a piece by the French artist JR, from placement to removal. JR creates photographic portraits and pastes them up (or down, in this case) on city streets. For this work, JR took a photo of Elmar Aliyev, a recent immigrant to Brooklyn from Azerbaijan, and then pasted the […]
“The federal government should repeal the ban on marijuana,” writes the Editorial Board of the New York Times. In just over 500 words, the oped — which is accompanied by a trippy animation that shows the stars and stripes morphing into weed leaves — spells out why it’s time to legalize cannabis, likening the government’s […]
The New York Times notoriously avoids printing curse words. They don’t print “fucks.” They don’t print “Fucked Up,” even when reviewing their album. They don’t even like printing “screw.” Watching their writers and editors weasel out of shit not fit to print is like reading absurdist literature. There’s Tumblr that highlights various instances of the strange shit that […]
“There’s nothing that can’t be bought for the right price,” boasts Chen Guangbiao, announcing his plans to “buy” The New York Times. But The New York Times is not actually for sale (yet?) and is worth $1 billion, while Chen Guangbiao is worth just $740 million. Despite the groups of investors and share-holders Chen Guangbiao is claiming to […]
The New York Times has crafted itself as a reputable news source throughout the years, much unlike other daily news sources. However, the rep comes at a cost. You can’t say “fuck.” Most of the time. For the second time ever, the Times said “fuck” in print, in an excerpt of the novel Dissident Gardens by Johnathan Lethem. Quit […]
