This Week’s Must See Events: Behold the Behemoth That is The New York Art...
Don’t be fooled by the normal-sized events list; this is just a sampling from the half million openings available to you in Chelsea on Wednesday and Thursday and the PS1 Book Fair, which will be...
View ArticleTuesday Links: Stay Home Aquarius!
Apparently this anteater kills about 5000 insects a day: So adorable! Every word in this sentence is gross: Lump of sperm whale puke to auction for $10,000. [Earth Touch News] The Hyperallergic...
View ArticleFriday Links: A Sad Day For No Bullshit Journalism
Zoo security drills prepare workers in the event of an escaped animal. Media journalist and staunch New York Times defender David Carr died suddenly last night after collapsing in the newsroom. A...
View ArticleWednesday Links: Don’t Fuck With Baer
Another dashcam to add to the carnage, this time involving hand-to-hand/car-to-beast combat with a wild boar. [YouTube via Edward Zipco on Facebook] Rhizome has archived VVORK! This is significant not...
View ArticleTuesday Links: The Haunted Macbook
Culled from an email thread on public hair A haunted white Macbook, only $182! The seller claims to have left the Macbook in a graveyard next to a mental institution on the night of an electrical...
View ArticleMonday Links: Thousands of Cats and Seals Die a Grisly Death
The loopy GIFs of Florian de Looij (via Boingboing) This is the most horrible story ever. Thousands of cats crammed into a truck were rescued from being eaten in Vietnam, then they were crushed to...
View ArticleThursday Links: Now With Doughnuts!
California governor’s proposed budget would halve their arts funding. This, after having boosted arts funding last year by 5 million. Apparently this decline is a surprise to no one, since last year’s...
View ArticleMonday Links: “Breastfeed Them”
Image via The Associated Press In boobs news, in a recent baptism speech, the Pope expressly welcomed mothers to breastfeed in the Sistine Chapel. “Give them milk,” the speech originally read, which...
View ArticleFriday Links: Valentine’s at White Castle
Image via SodaHead White Castle is booking reservations for Valentine’s Day. The number is (718) 899-8404, ext. 311. [Gothamist] If the battle is actually on between MoMA and the Met’s contemporary...
View ArticleThursday Links: MoMA Garden Smackdown
MoMA’s garden, image courtesy of MoMA Tina Barney, who’s known for semi-intimate portraits of her family, often in Lilly Pulitzer, joins Paul Kasmin gallery. [artnet News] Photographer Lisa Oppenheim...
View ArticleMonday Links: Wipe That Fucking Smirk Off Your Facebook
The Artist Studio Affordability Project known as ASAP needs a mere $600 to make the organization official. Main initiatives include building a coalition between artists and people with similar issues....
View ArticleGIFs That Made Our Year
Horse costume guy: because 2014 was the Year of the Horse. Zach Scott, Renaissance Fair Centaur. At this point, 2014 is still a wash; trending words included “asphyxiation” and “misogyny”, but the...
View ArticleFriday Links: The Day the Calder Stood Still
“Mulata Que Sera”, Fernando Salicrup, 2005 (Image courtesy of Warnock Fine Arts) Artist Fernando Salicrup, a cultural force in El Barrio and founder of the Puerto Rican nonprofit art space Taller...
View ArticleWednesday Links: The Perfect Stocking Stuffer
Put this in your kids stockings. It took us all year, but we’ve found the best link of 2014. Here’s a Play-Doh toy that looks just like a penis. Is Play-Doh play a thing now? [E!] A shitty year, in...
View ArticleTuesday Links: Shoot the Banker!
Save the environment; rent a Christmas tree that’s still in the ground. [Treehugger] Suzanne Mallouk was a long time lover of Basquiat’s and her stories of him are now relayed in Jennifer Clement’s...
View ArticleMonday Links: Cheeseburger Is the New Cheezburger
In theartblog’s weekly art comics, Bananazz on hairstyling [theartblog] A think piece on the Internet meme known as “snackwave”. To generalize, these are pictures of virtually anything unhealthy;...
View ArticleFriday Links: Go to the March
An August march protesting the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner (Image courtesy of NPR) On Saturday, in protest of Eric Garner’s death, there will be a million man march starting in Washington...
View ArticleThis Week’s Must-See Art Events: Every Event We’ve Listed Today Has a Penis
Jimmy Desana, “Coat Hanger”, 1982. Image courtesy of Foxy Production We have much to look forward to this week. We are predictable. TWTFSTueMarlborough New York40 West 57th StreetChesea6-8...
View ArticleMonday Links: How to Stay Out of Jail
Our calendar launch and signing party takes place tomorrow night at Sargent’s Daughters, 6-8 pm. Join us! [Art F City] All satire was lost on the titler of Ben Davis’s Art Basel report. “Art Basel in...
View ArticleThursday Links: Invisible Graves and Empty Culture
James Franco, Seth Rogen and Kim Jong Un in “The Interview” Carol Vogel, the Times lead art reporter is leaving her position. She took a voluntary buyout. Vogel had been the source of some negative...
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