Daniel Widrig's Crazy 3D-Printed Wares Will Be Shown Off in London
COLLECT, the International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, is taking place this weekend in London and it looks like it's gonna be great. Of the designers whose work is being displayed at the Saatchi...
View ArticleTumblr Star Lacey Micallef Has Us Hooked On Her 8-Bit GIFs
Self-portrait illustration by Lacey Micallef"Any time I post something that gets attention, I just assume that I've somehow tricked people into liking it," says artist Lacey Micallef, who's had Tumblr...
View ArticleHeads Up, You Can Now Travel In Style to Frieze Art Fair
Thanks to Joe Fresh, the schlep from Manhattan to Randall's Island for the upcoming Frieze New York art fair (May 10th-13th) will be a lot easier -- and a lot more stylish. The fashion brand, which is...
View ArticleRecapping the Mad Men Recaps: Episode 6, "For Immediate Release"
Each week PAPER will help you sort through your feelings about Mad Men by rounding up the best and brightest of the MM recaps. Read below so you can compare, contrast, and ponder while drinking your...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About NYC's Spring Art Week
New York's Spring Art Week is here! The weather has finally come around and it's a great time to get out and enjoy the tons of gallery openings, art fairs, auctions and parties taking place from May...
View ArticleWe Get to Know the People Behind Our Favorite Parody Twitter Accounts.
@TweenHobo Dispatches from a Justin Bieber-loving, boxcar-living tween drifter. Written by playwright and screenwriter Alena Smith.Sample tweet: "At the end of the day, I still believe in the American...
View ArticleTeam Spirit Faces Satan
Just over a year ago, Passion Pit's Ayad al Adhamy set aside his synth for a guitar and assembled the boozy power-pop quartet Team Spirit. With a self-titled EP out last month, Team Spirit recently...
View ArticleSuzy Menkes Is Not a Fan of the Met's New Punk Exhibit
1. Suzy Menkes is not a fan of the Met's new punk exhibit, "PUNK: Chaos to Couture." Menkes wrote an article for the Times wherein she calls the exhibit "sanitized," "bloodless" and "dull." It's worth...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney's Response On Why He Won't Run For Office Is Great...and...
Apparently someone asked George Clooney why he won't ever run for political office and this was his response. [via The Clearly Dope]This is awesome: ahead of their series finale on May 16th, the cast...
View ArticlePreview Images from Graffiti Book VANDALS
Graffiti artist-cum-photographer Nils Müller has been a part of the graffiti world for years. His new book of photos, VANDALS, takes you inside the world of tagging and trainwriting around the world,...
View ArticleHere's RiFF RAFF Playing "Jamie Franko" on One Life to Live
For all of you who've been impatiently awaiting RiFF RAFF's revenge cameo on One Life to Live, your time has come. For those of you not up to speed on the weird rivalry between RiFF RAFF and James...
View ArticleTalking With Punk Scholar Jon Savage About the Met Exhibition and Punk's...
Jon Savage is the foremost authority about punk, both first-hand as a wild child himself in London and, later, as the author of England's Dreaming, his authoritative history of the movement that shook...
View ArticleNY's Alright If You Like Moon Hooch
"New York's alright if you like saxophones," the West Coast punk band FEAR sang over thirty years ago. Proving them right is Brooklyn trio Moon Hooch: two sax players and a drummer who call their sound...
View ArticleHere's "7 Minutes in Heaven" with Reggie Watts
1. Here's "7 Minutes in Heaven" with Reggie Watts. Watching Watts sing-narrate a fairy tale on the spot is priceless. [via Comedy Nerds United]2. In case you were wondering about how long Downton...
View ArticleDid Frank Ocean and Riccardo Tisci Spend the Night Together?
Hot new couple alert? Looks like Givenchy creative director and man of the hour Riccardo Tisci not only dressed some of the Met Gala's biggest stars (see Beyoncé, Madonna, Kanye Carine Roitfeld and...
View ArticleJoshua Jackson Wins Best Met Gala Photobomb
Joshua Jackson wins Best Photobomb of the Night at the Met Gala...[E!]...but Jennifer Lawrence's photobomb of SJP comes in at a close second. [ImWithKanye]Dress by Internet. [UsWeekly] John Krasinski...
View ArticleIsabella Rossellini On Her New Motherhood Web Series, Mammas
Isabella Rossellini is back at it. After the success of her Webby-award winning Sundance Channel series, Green Porno and Seduce Me, tackling the eccentric mating habits of the animal kingdom (gay...
View ArticleFrieze New York Founder Amanda Sharp On Her Mega Art Fair
Sometime early this century I invited Frieze magazine editor Amanda Sharp out to lunch. I took her to a glassed-in tablecloth joint down near the water in Battery Park. The location was good for a...
View ArticleThis Marc Maron-Narrated Short Doc on DFA Is Awesome
"Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic" is an appropriate description of seminal NYC indie record label DFA. It's also the title of a short documentary that looks at the label's twelve years in...
View ArticleOldman, Cotillard and Bowie in "The Next Day"
Gary Oldman stars in David Bowie's "The Next Day" as a crooked priest, first seen beating up a young beggar. He makes his way to a creepy bar where waiters serve trays of eyeballs and clergy buy...
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