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crime
Shepard Fairey Never Needs to Go to Boston Again
Shepard "OBEY Obama" Fairey has pleaded guilty to vandalism charges in Boston, and he's getting off easy. Boston, on the other hand... More » -
artists
Poster Boy, His Arms Star in Documentary
Poster Boy, vandalartist-in-chief of the NYC subway system, has been quiet lately. Or has he? He just had another art show in Jersey, and he stars in this mini-documentary lauding his folk heroism. 'America's Got Talent,' he's ready! [AnimalNY] -
Unjust desserts
Chocolate Is Death
A 29 year-old chocolate factory worker in New Jersey died today after falling into an eight-foot-deep vat of melted chocolate. One option for the poor man's cadaver: a mold for chocolates. More » -
controversies
Joe Jackson Pancake Painting a Little Too Intense For Corporate America
Speaking of important Michael Jackson news, pancake-painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has some! He painted this moving portrait of "Joe Jackson with a Michael Jackson memorial ticket and a pancake upon his head." Ebay is censoring it! More » -
I CAN HAZ MASTURPEESUZ
A Context-Free, Comment-Free Review Of Contemporary Art, With Suggestions
Things I Did On My July 4th Vacation: hit up The New Museum's Younger Than Jesus exhibition. It's a contemporary art exhibit showcasing only artists born after 1976. It ends today. Here is what I saw, presented without comment.
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magazines
What Had Better Be the Nine Best Words Ever
Opium Magazine is running "The Longest Story Ever Told": it's printed on the cover, then printed over in black ink, which will fade over the course of 1,000 years to reveal the nine-word-long story. We already guessed it: More » -
music
Moby Is Magic
New York magazine's Hugo Lindgren proves that—with just a few hours in the studio—Moby can transform a scratchy demo of an amateurish ballad into a rejected outtake from some bad Jennifer Grey movie soundtrack. [NY Mag] -
culture
Metropolitan Museum Still Humongous
The Metropolitan Museum of Art laid off 357 people today. This will save them $10 million—$28,000 per layoff. They still have 2,200 employees. Several uncultured questions: More » -
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thomas kinkade
World's Worst Artist, Jesus Team Up For Scam
Thomas "Painter of Darkness" Kinkade, the world's single most objectionable mass-producer of wall-hangings for middle American Baptists, is not just a terrible offender against aesthetics—he's also a crook!
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and now he's dead
Iz the Wiz, Legend
Iz The Wiz, a graffiti legend since the 1970s, died of heart failure in Florida last night. He started in NYC and went all-world. Blogue has details and a retrospective of his art. -
hardcore
This Makes Shepard Fairey Look Like Shepard Fairy, LOLOLOL
A street artist in Russia was arrested by the secret service, interrogated, and beaten after he made this piece showing Vladimir Putin as a woman. In Russia, politicians, cops, and vandals are all equally insane criminal badasses. [via Daily Mail] -
art
Museums Now Thrilled to Welcome Banksy
Hello, it's a big new art show by zillionaire street artist Banksy, an artist who does not suck—his first show since his crazy robot monkey show in NYC last year. Let's look, shall we? More » -
art
Hoda and Kathie Lee Grapple on Syrupy Flapjack
Pancake painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has completed yet another work of art suggested by you, the celebrisexually-obsessed readers of this blog. Today: Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford wrestle nude, on a pancake. You can buy this thing! More » -
art
A Bold Fresh Piece of Haha
These posters were plastered over some Faile art in an unidentified city: "Kill Bill: A Roaring Rampage of Revenge. The Feel Good Movie of the Year." Bill: ranting about these on air will only add to their powers of attraction. -
art
Perez Hilton in Ghost-Splooging Scandal
In a shocking breach of the integrity (ahem) his fans have come to depend upon, it turns out Perez Hilton might not have phallically doodled on celebrity pictures alone. He uses one or more ghost writer/sploogers. And he might have been a secret. More » -
full frontal art
Madonna and Guy Ritchie Are Naked and Beautiful
This is an oil painting, by Scottish artist Peter Howson, that a nude Madonna and her now ex-husband Guy Ritchie sat for back in 2005. It is being auctioned off in Glasgow, and is expected to go for some ÂŁ22,000. Image via Getty. -
recessionomics
'Nobody Wants Me to Do Anything, So I'm Just Doing What I Want'
The Way We Live Now: Moaning, creatively. Artists are poor. More so! But credit cards are now a responsible financial option. I think we've solved all of our problems! More » -
pic of the day
BaconBaconBacon!
[A visitor attends a press preview for the new exhibit "Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective," opening May 20th at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection celebrates the British artist's 100th birthday; image Getty] -
recessionomics
Well Cover Me in Tiger Skin and Call Me Richie Rich
The Way We Live Now: Sick of it all. You work and work to stay positive and then one day you come across some superrich asshole whose yacht's decorated in endangered animal skins. Screw it. More » -
history
Van Gogh: Action Hero
Everyone knows Vincent Van Gogh cut his ear off and gave it to a prostitute because he was kind of pathetic. But a new study suggests Van Gogh might've been awesome! More » -
rumormonger
Poster Boy-Friendly Ad Agency Happycorp: Dead? (Updated)
Thehappycorp is an edgy little ad agency that most recently made news for getting Poster Boy to remix some MOMA ads, and getting fired by MOMA for it. Now a tipster says everyone's been fired. More » -
Art is commerce
Luxury, LV, and Leftovers: Art Eats the Rich
A great, great story embodying the now-gone boom days: Louis Vuitton teamed up with Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami for an exhibit, with a pricey store. And the "prints" were just leftover scraps! Very fitting: More » -
things to buy
Michel Gondry Now Hustling $20 Caricatures
Maybe all the cool kids already knew this, but for the rest of us: did you know that for the low low price of $19.95, HIP and FRENCH movieperson Michel Gondry will draw your portrait? More » -
the art world
Is Poster Boy Still Good in a Gallery?
NYC subway ad vandalartist Poster Boy is all up the fancy galleries now! Well not the "fancy" galleries, but galleries nonetheless. But do ad remixes really translate to gallery walls? Kinda. More » -
art
Mickey Rourke Peed Upon by Star Dog
Hello, pancake painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has completed another work of art suggested by you, the celebrity-obsessed Gawker readers. Today: "Mickey Rourke and the canine-star of Beverly Hills Chihuahua urinating on him." More » -
books
Paula Froelich's Rejected Book Cover
Page Sixer Paula Froelich has a book coming out called Mercury in Retrograde ("chick lit"). The current cover, pictured, is rather serene. But the original cover, pictured below, was more DYNAMIC: More » -
photography
AP Funneez: Shepard Fairey Edition
The AP is currently suing (and being sued by) Shepard Fairey over his famous 'Obama' image, stolen from the AP. Here's the front page of the AP photo site on Friday. Ha. SUBTLETY. -
art
S&M Goat Marries Pancake; Repubs Outraged
Pancake painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey has unveiled his third painting inspired by you, the Gawker commenters. Today: "An S&M goat getting married to a pancake while Rush Limbaugh and a bunch of other conservatives look on in rage." More » -
publicity stunts
Shadowy Group of Chavs Out to Destroy Banksy
In 2007, NYC had "The Splasher," an anonymous pseudo-intellectual prick who went around defacing street art. Now England has its own pricks who've decided to deface Banksy murals. Unless it's an elaborate hoax. More » -
bravery
Ivy League Manhattanite Travels to Brooklyn, Somehow Survives
Kate Ahlborn—Harvard '07, Upper East Sider, Vanity Fair writer—ventured into Brooklyn, where dirty people live, for a weird Brooklyny art show, and wrote about it. May she never fucking return.
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things we actually like
An Amazing Rescue in Little Sydney
Australia-based photographer Keith Loutit is spending a year shrinking Sydney, taking video around the city using a shooting technique that makes everything look miniature — and an apparent near-drowning seem fun to watch. More » -
gawker stalker
Alec Baldwin Sneaking Out of Own Movie Premier With Lady Friend
Judging from this emailed stalker sighting, Alec Baldwin is either not much of a fan of his movie Lymelife, or he really wanted to talk to Stylista winner Johhanna Cox about something: More » -
art
The Crucifixion of OctoMom
Pancake painter to the stars Dan Lacey has completed his second painting suggested by you, the Gawker readers: OctoMom upon the cross, as Angelina and Madonna worship her. More » -
revenge
How Mad Dog McEnroe Helped Bring Down Art Scammer
Lawrence Salander apparently had a nice little painting ponzi scheme going for a while there. Then he tried conning a certain temperamental tennis star named John McEnroe. This, of course, ENDED him. More » -
crazies
Immortals No Match For Bernie Madoff
Two conceptual artists/nuts decided that they could stop people from dying by building bizarre apartments for them. But Bernie Madoff lost all their money! He's killed the dream of immortality through uneven flooring: More » -
art
Obama Photographer Owes Art Gig To Shepard Fairey
Everyone, it seems, is reaping fortune or fame from a 2006 Associated Press picture of Barack Obama. Except the AP. More » -
shut up, college
University of Minnesota Dance Program Devastatingly Exposed as 'Privileged'
In protest of "the ways in which conversations about institutional racism and white privilege have been mishandled and silenced within the [University of Minnesota Dance] department," anonymous activists have be-papered the department headquarters, provocatively: More » -
Poster Boy
Poster Boy and friends have a gallery show in Brooklyn tomorrow. Don't tell the cops.
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winners
Limbaugh-Palin-Steele-Pancake Painting Reignites Culture War
Ladies and gentlemen, your winning request, "Rush the Hutt," by wondrous pancake painter to the stars Dan Lacey. You may buy this cultural artifact on Ebay, right now. More »






































