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Canada’s Expo 1967 Pavilion vs its 2010 Olympic Pavilion
* * * * * * I found this on the View on Canadian Art blog. What a jarring contrast: 1960s rational utopianism and 21st century marketing.
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San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church
The zany protest sign obsessed followers of the Westboro Baptist Church decided to target Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. They learned it’s probably not a good idea to fuck with people who love...
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Still Wondering About Osama bin Laden in Red Hook
This photo was taken in Red Hook, Brooklyn, by street art photographer Becky Fuller. And here’s a view of the same sign from a few years back. (Posted here with the permission of the photographer)
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Sexy Jersey Snow Sculpture Gets Covered Up
From the New York Daily News: Cops ordered a New Jersey family to cover up their saucy snowlady after receiving a complaint that the frosty front yard figure was X-rated. While neighboring snowmen...
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Keith Haring’s “Untitled (Fertility Suite)” (1983)
The Keith Haring show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery is pretty impressive. It felt like the best of the 1980s. The black light room they have set up in the back with a small boom box playing eighties...
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Odd Street Sculpture in Williamsburg
Ever since we published Luna Park’s lovely photo essay on New York’s sculptural street art, I’ve been looking more closely at work that projects out into public space. Yesterday, I spotted one of the...
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The Unique Utopianism of Ontario’s Sharon Temple
Early Canadian history is often plagued with dull stories that continue to propagate the old narrative that nothing really interesting happens in Canada — the problem is that it is simply untrue. One...
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Bender becomes a street artist in New New York
Bender the robot mimics Space Invader, encounters a Shepard Fairey-like Nixon/Obama poster and blankets the city of New New York with his image. From Futurama’s “Proposition Infinity”(Season 7, Episode...
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Left vs Right: US Political Spectrum
This is a fantastic visualization of the American political spectrum created in the fall of 2009. While it is very useful it is very black and white … blue and red … whatever.
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Wall on N8th Street
I see this wall from my apartment, and I’ve been dying to document it before it disappears. This is my first attempt. I only captured half of it. It’s worth seeing full size.
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