Hot and Busted is a Tumblr page where readers can submit mugshots. Most of the photos submitted (or at least those approved by the editor) seem to be of young, model-y looking white guys (a minority of the prison demographic here in the States, I would venture to say). I find reading what they were [...]
Author Archives: Skye Parrott
One In Five Teenagers Will Experiment with Art
January 27, 2012 – 7:55 pm
This clever ad campaign is for the College of Creative Studies, an art school in Detroit. Clever, but oh how true. Click “Read More” below for additional images.
Obama Sings Al Green
January 20, 2012 – 11:40 am
Obama made an appearance at the Apollo last night for a fundraiser, also attended by Al Green. Channeling the Reverend, the President sang a few lines of Let’s Stay Together. It reminded me why I liked Obama so much four years ago.
New York Art Book Fair
September 30, 2011 – 8:05 am
This weekend, Printed Matter presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. Free and open to the public, the fair features more than 200 stands selling artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries. Personally, I [...]
Richard Kern at Anthology Film Archives
September 23, 2011 – 1:44 pm
Anthology Film Archives will be screening two programs of films by Richard Kern this weekend. Shot in the 1980′s on Super-8 and originally distributed on VHS , the films are described by Anthology as as “darkly comedic, shocking, sexy, disturbed, debauched, violent, and really quite wonderful.” They feature the likes of Lydia Lunch, Nick Zedd, David [...]
Shirin Neshat’s Seasons
September 23, 2011 – 8:01 am
Shirin Neshat, who we profiled in Dossier Issue 7, spoke to us about her more recent move towards film as an artistic medium. In that vein, she has been working on a series of videos for the four seasons which are running on the New York Times Opinion page. The spring video, entitled Egypt in [...]
September Mix
September 2, 2011 – 7:55 am
Every month, artist Sam Falls makes a mix and sends it out to a group of friends. He also shares the playlists as a monthly feature here. They are compiled from the daily mixes he makes in his studio while working and are deliberately unthemed. Click here to download the September mix.
August Mix
August 10, 2011 – 5:59 pm
Every month, artist Sam Falls makes a mix and sends it out to a group of friends. He also shares the playlists as a monthly feature here. They are compiled from the daily mixes he makes in his studio while working and are deliberately unthemed. Click here to download the August mix.
Performa 09 Book Launch
August 4, 2011 – 9:48 am
Curator and Performa director RoseLee Goldberg is launching her book, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, which is a definitive account of the performance biennial. The book includes creative documentation by the 150 artists who participated – among them Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, Yeondoo Jung, Keren Cytter, [...]
