In the deli this morning, waiting for my eggs ‘n’ bacon on a roll, an ad for the new Phil Collins musical, yes musical, came on the radio. As cheesy welling strings filled the room, the involuntary muscle that is my heart filled with it. But just as manipulation was about to overtake me, I smiled a secret smile knowing that I had been touched more deeply than even Phil Collins could […]

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This is the new Mary Jane figurine. You know, MJ - Spiderman’s tough, spunky, independent, international model wife. But apparently she’s now being reimagined as Peter Parker’s laundry whore.
Mary Jane has long been an important character to comicbook fan-girls - she was a female character we could like and identitfy with. Like Lois Lane, she became so popular that she even got her own title - but unlike Lois, her boyfriend wasn’t a boring jock […]

You’ve gotta be in there somewhere. Artist Tina Berning drew over 100 drawing of all different standards of beauty in women…on crappy paper. This exhibit has been touring the world and it’s here in NYC for a little while longer. Check it out, the paper may be similar to that cheap yellow lined stuff we wrote on in elementary school, but the quality of the art is much greater than any school doodle.
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Lola Alvarez Bravo at Aperture Gallery

Don’t miss this chance to see photos by, Mexico’s first woman photographer, Lola Alvarez Bravo (1903-1993), curated by Elizabeth Ferrer at Aperture Gallery.
Through Nov. 2
Gallery Hours Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm
547 W 27th Street. 4th FL NY, NY

Laurie Anderson is the coolest.

She studied classical violin as a kid and has used those skills to push all kinds of musical performance and art boundaries. Ultimately, she considers herself a storyteller, using whatever tools she can get her hands on to engage and enchant audiences ..and she dates Lou Reed..and she has cool jack russell terrier..and she was the first Artist in Residence at NASA. She is living history, […]

This Broad and That Broad are the New York artists who produced a notoriously wicked printed ‘zine called Broadsheet. All issues are now available for download on their fancy new blog! Link