If you’ve been to Wild Torus events before, it’s likely you know all about their marathon performance-art benders and messy parties. Guests are necessarily a…
Juicy Exhibit Shows Pulp’s ‘Unique Power’ to Explore Black Identity
I’m ashamed to say, The International Print Center New York, or IPCNY always gets tangled up in my brain with ICP– as in, yes, the Insane…
Your Near Future in Music: A Vulture Rises + Duchess Says Get Spooky
Duchess Says Friday October 14, 8 pm at Shea Stadium: $8 Saturday October 15, 8 pm at Elvis Guesthouse: $10 – $12 Duchess Says is the ’80s…
Week in Film: Love Like ’70s Pulp Revenge Cinema, an Idiotic Prophecy Most Accurate, and More
What’s Revenge? Saturday October 8 and Saturday October 15, 10 pm at Spectacle: $5 I trust that most of us here can agree that far too…
GIFs Invaded Real Life at This Unusual Art Show
Even if GIFs are objectively one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to the internet, not everyone gets them. Humorless turds say that these grainy, animated…
Trans-Pecos Is Settling a New Frontier With an ‘Annex’ Called Juarez
It was a tough summer for Brooklyn’s DIY scene. There was the sudden shutdown of Palisades, followed by the closure of DIY-gone-legit venue the Acheron;…
A ‘Barebones’ Bushwick Open Studios Drew a Smaller But Stronger Crowd
This past weekend, attendees of Bushwick Open Studios had their pick of more than 400 participating art spaces around the Bushwick-Ridgewood area. The weather for the new October iteration of…
Nevermind Turned 25 and the Cover Show at Sunnyvale Did Not Completely Drain Me
As the story goes, no one guessed that Nirvana’s Nevermind would become one of the defining rock records of the ’90s, let alone top the charts at…
Catch Kathleen Hanna in Conversation With Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy
If you’ve seen the 2013 documentary The Punk Singer, you know Kathleen Hanna was stuck out at sea for a long time when she was creatively paralyzed and…
How the Guerrilla Girls Used Ape Outfits to Expose the Art-World Patriarchy
“You know, after a while, wearing that rubber gorilla mask is really hard,” said Donna Kaz. She was describing one of the stranger realities of her double…