How New Yorkers feel about art

Check out this interesting video made by our fellow Dane Christian Svane Kolding interviewing New Yorkers about their view of art (as also highligted in the brilliant Brain Pickings blog). How Do You Feel (About Art)? from svanes on Vimeo. By the way, sorry for the low posting frequency, I am a bit busy with […]

“Dead Drops” – an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space #art_activism #newyork #fatlabs

FAT Labs’ Aram Bartholl has launched a new inspiring project. He writes: ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in […]

Where’s Rob? Improv Everywhere strike again

I’ve been following the activities of New York-based improvisation activist group Improv Everywhere with great joy over the last couple of years. Their latest installment takes place in New York’s Madison Square Garden – where “Rob” get’s lost. So hilarious and also interesting to see how it’s possible to engage a public crowd. Improv Everywhere […]

Huge Yes Men shenanigans on Monday in New York

The uncanny Yes Men are up to something big on Monday. Five days ago, they sent out an email to their mailing list with a message saying that “If you live in New York, please visit http://newyorkbigevent.com/ to sign up for some GIANT, extremely FUN, potentially WORLD-FIXING shenanigans on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. (…) We can’t […]

Reverend Billy made it onto the ballot

Great news for New York City. Reverend Billy’s dedicated street team has managed to collect 18,000 signatures and thereby cleared the path for at least one trustworthy candidate at the upcoming election for the mayor position in the worlds greatest city. From the newsletter: “More than 100 of you collected over 18,000 signatures. We are […]

Today: Buy Nothing Day

Today is the official Buy Nothing Day, as announced by Reverende Billy and Church of Stop Shopping, a New York Based advocacy group lead by comic preacher Reverend Billy, aka. actor Bill Talen, that trough books, flicks and spectacular appearances – most famous of which are those taking place in the citys’ Starbucks branches – […]

Support the spectacle

Just donated 5 bucks to these guys (the following communication is from the Nonsense NYC newsletter): “Dear Friends, If you live in or near New York City, or plan on being here in early October, please sign up to be part of a very special event that we’re planning with some amazing activist groups. We […]