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After a recent controversy erupted in Long Island City regarding a piece of artwork that many deemed ugly—some compared the eight-foot tall bright pink sculpture to “Gumby’s grandmother”—a new bill has passed that would give neighborhoods some input before public works are installed.

By about 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, throngs of eager New Yorkers were assembled outside 190 Bowery, hoping for access to a just-announced art show inside the 150-year-old former bank building. First Show / Last Show was celebrated as a chance for the public to see inside 190—which has been mostly inaccessible for…

Remember that painting we talked about yesterday? The ugly Picasso that sold at Christie’s for a price so exorbitant that it’s painful to mention again ($179 million dollars)? Well, according to Fox5 in NY, it wasn’t only crazy expensive, it was pornographic.

Got a couple million dollars in the bank? Want to make it rain at Christie’s? Too bad, you’re a sucker who is still too poor to buy art. Please step aside.

The Empire State Building—the apple of our apple, the diamond of our city, the second best-looking skyscraper we have—is often lit up for some dumb occasion, like a Yankees win or Christmas day. On Friday, however, art will be the star as the building is illuminated with works from the new Whitney Museum.

Right now, if you wanted to, you could log onto the internet, order a bunch of drugs, and have them delivered to your doorstep. There's none of the awkwardness of dealing with your shady, coked-out bartender, but all of the legal risk: If the cops found out, you'd still go to court. Not so for Random Darknet Shopper.

Here are a few computer games that were marketed to girls in the 90s and early 2000s: Barbie as Princess Bride, in which the titular doll sits around “waiting for her future husband to come home” according to one reviewer; Fisher Price Dream Dollhouse, a game about a dollhouse; and Chop Suey, featuring snake charmers…

Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park is currently—and temporarily—home to a 100-pound bronze-colored bust of Edward Snowden, erected early this morning by a crew of guerilla artists. Animal New York has the story. Run see it before the pigs get there. [Pic: Animal NY]

In 1983, a statue of the Buddhist deity Samvara like the one above was stolen from Kathmandu’s Itum Bahal Temple, a structure that dates to the 13th century AD. Thirty years later, a Brooklyn art dealer may have unloaded the plundered artifact for $370,000.

When Banksy lands in a city and begins a street art-making spree, there's a routine that usually follows. First, the stenciled paintings are ignored, then, after people realize what they are, they are gawked at and occasionally vandalized. Eventually, they are cordoned off and protected from the public, and finally,…

Art is whatever people think it is, and what people think it is depends an awful lot on context: For example, whether the work is being displayed in an art museum by a dapper bloke in glasses and a vest, or whether it's sitting alongside other copies of the exact same print in an IKEA, with a listed price of €10.

As you're sitting there in a poorly lit office in front of your MacBook Air screen, perpetually hopscotching from one text-filled vessel for banner advertising to the next, absorbing the media, so is ContentBot. As you're socially sharing the most compelling images, videos, and personal essays that you find, in…

Several more cultural institutions have taken measures to ban selfie sticks, adding to the growing list of public places where the wand of idiocy will not be tolerated. The Palace of Versailles, Britain's National Gallery, and the Colosseum are among the newest institutions to impose the selfie stick ban.

In another assault on Iraq's cultural legacy, Islamic State militants reportedly destroyed the remains of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud Thursday, an attack Iraq's tourism and antiquities ministry says "defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity."