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#art
Poster Boy Goes Highbrow
Our favorite guerilla X-acto knife artist, Poster Boy, is apparently still at work on the streets of Bushwick, with important messages about digestion. Click to enlarge. [Pic: Elliott Cassidy. UPDATE: More info at AnimalNY] -
#law
Nudity Legal Here in NYC!
In August, artistic nudie model Kathleen Neill was arrested for stripping nude in the Metropolitan Museum, posing for artistic nudie photog Zach Hyman. But now the DA's dropped the case against her—because, guess what, nudity's legal! Lalalalala! Everybody naked! More » -
#theendisnear
The Return of Pay Per Post and the End of Twitter: Internet as One Long, Subversive Ad
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back. More » -
#andnowshesdead
Jeanne-Claude, Artist and Wife of Christo
Jeanne-Claude, the wife of wrap-happy artist Christo and his artistic collaborator for more than 50 years, died from a brain aneurysm last night at the age of 74. Her favorite project, she said: "the next one." [AP] -
#art
Hannity, Limbaugh, Maddow, Olbermann, Beck, Obama, Palin, Unicorns, Pancakes
Here, the latest masterwork (suggested by you) from pancake painter-to-the-stars Dan Lacey: a horrific apocalyptic tableau of talking heads and politicians doing who knows what. He expounds on his vision, below. More » -
#printisdead
Newspaper Box Enlivened One Last Time
Artist Jason Eppink turns empty newspaper boxes into flashing little disco parties. "When the last vestiges of a collapsed empire litter the landscape, there's only one thing to do: throw a bumpin' party and dance on the ruins." [BoingBoing] -
#thingsweactuallylike
Creating a City From Memory
Autistic artist Steven Wiltshire can draw precise, detailed cityscapes after a single viewing of a city. He is incredible. He's currently drawing the New York skyline. You can watch him live. Click through to see a bit of Wiltshire's Tokyo. More » -
#publicitystunts
Rape Tunnel Succeeds in Sparking Conversation, But Not Rape
Yesterday we brought you the ridic story of the purported "Rape Tunnel," where Rape Artist "Richard Whitehurst" would rape anyone daring to crawl through. Alas, it was just another art hoax. Our field trip is canceled.
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#fun
Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
Richard Whitehurst is an artist in Columbus, Ohio. He's building a big wooden tunnel, and if you crawl through it, he will rape you [Update: Or will he??].
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#artists
Today's Lies From Tucker Max
Tucker Max did an interview with City Pages in Minneapolis about his movie. He said at least six untrue things: More » -
#badideas
Ashley Dupre's Tabloid Symbiosis
Ashley Dupre and the New York Post have finalized their deal: Ashley will give the Post exclusive interviews and sexxxy exclusive photo shoots in hooker heels. In return, they'll play like they're on her side. Everybody wins, except Ashley Dupre!
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#rumormonger
Have Björk and Matthew Barney Split Up?
Oh, the art world! Like any insular set of people, it's always swirling with the best rumors. The mystery that arty people are currently exploring: has Matthew Barney left his hipster elf wife Björk for sometimes-lesbian painter Elizabeth Peyton? More » -
#art
Pigs Can't Handle Nudie Photog Taking Nudie Pics of Nudie Model
Photographer Zach Hyman keeps NYC wacky—and sexy—by taking pixxx of nude models, in public. Sure, it's all wacky and sexy until the cops show up, and Justin Rocket Silverman has to race the scene. More » -
#newtous
Peaches Geldof Saves Mali
While we weren't paying attention, Banksy went to Africa and brought (the spirit of) Peaches Geldof with him. This piece in Mali has reportedly been painted over already, but probably not by Peaches herself. She's busy. [Banksy/ Flickr] -
#shutupcollege
Blood Art Sex Magik Too Hot For Yale
Yale art major Aliza Shvarts induced many throwups amongst people who read about her induced-abortion art project last year. But she also induced, uh, Yale not letting somebody have a blood drive, for art? Something something, "meaning." Yale! More » -
#bookclub
Banksy Doppelganger Selling Robot Book
Gawker friend R. Nicholas Kuszyk, the Williamsburg-based robot artist who occasionally fools the world into thinking he is Banksy, has a new book about, yes, Robots, so why don't you pick it up? Art sample photo below! More » -
#hypocrisy
Shepard Fairey, career vandal, applied "anti-graffiti coating to the walls" of his LA gallery. Wack.
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#art
Obama Street Art: Only 99% Positive
These "Obama Is a Socialist Joker" posters are apparently the first-ever examples of Republican Street Art. Baby steps! On balance, the "Heroic Obama" street art meme is still dominating. A sample: More » -
#art
'Private Peeps at Preposterous Punks Who Prowl This Planet'
Basil Wolverton was a devout Christian, an apocalypse aficionado, and MAD magazine's most prominent creator of 1950s grotesquerie. And—now—a fine artist. More » -
#controversies
Dash Snow's Diverging Legacies
Downtown artist Dash Snow died of a heroin overdose last week. The formation of his legacy is well underway. Was he an authentic artist with a tortured soul, or a selfish jerk who left his daughter fatherless? More »
