Off-Off-Off-the Grid
Last July, video artist Mika Rottenberg and sculptor Jon Kessler traveled to Botswana to shoot a film for their performance art installation, "SEVEN." The film screened at Nicole Klagsbrun Project...
View ArticleTitania Inglis' Eco-Friendly, Experimental Line
Sustainability is at the core of Brooklyn-based designer Titania Inglis' eco-friendly, experimental, eponymous line. "The concept of sustainability is a dichotomy in itself: It's about nature and about...
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Michael Pellew's Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Brooklyn-based artist Michael Pellew has amassed a devoted following (including Sufjan Stevens, Opening Ceremony, Spike Lee, the editors of Paper magazine) thanks to his signature, squiggly drawings of...
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Jennifer Herrema Goes Black Bananas
Jennifer Herrema has been a hell-raising, rock 'n' roll goddess since she was 16. the former model fronted snarling rock bands like Royal Trux and RTX, and over the past few years she turned her...
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From Kristen Wiig to Wendy Williams to Lana Del Rey: The Best of What Was...
Earlier in the week we published part one of our favorite quotes from Paper and Papermag.com stories published this year, now here's part two! "Pedro [Almodovar] understands how to write stories about...
View ArticleIt's a Brad, Brad World (And PAPER's in the first episode!)
We were already planning on curling up with a bowl of popcorn and catching tonight's premiere of Brad Goreski's new Bravo reality show, It's a Brad, Brad World, but now that we know Goreski's "Styled...
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Tips for Today: Greed at Film Forum, ALEXCALIBUR at Arlene's Grocery + Room &...
Greed at Film ForumSo you've seen The Artist. Now maybe it's time to see an actual silent movie. Head to the latest installment of the Film Forum's Monday night film festival of silent movies: Erich...
View ArticleIdle Warship's "Laser Beams" Is Our Music Video of the Day
Not sure if you were there on New Year's Eve, but this is what Times Square looks like on a normal night. As you can see, it's not totally empty and you might even run into Talib Kweli and his Idle...
View ArticleScissor Sisters Featuring Azealia Banks' "Shady Love" Is Our First 2012...
We interrupt our normal broadcasting schedule to bring you another "Music Video of the Day." It's the new Scissor Sisters single, "Shady Love," from their upcoming album and it's a killer. When we...
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Satan Is Real Has the Best-Designed Book Cover of 2012
Sure, we're likely a smidge premature in naming Charlie Louvin and Benjamin Whitmer's Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers the Best-Designed Book Cover of 2012, but even two days into this...
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Agent Provocateur
In 1971, an 11-year-old Matthew Modine returned to his family home in Orem, Utah, to find his dog missing. This wasn't entirely unexpected; Modine had moved away from Orem a few years earlier, leaving...
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Kim Jong-Il Dropping the Bass, the Same Pic of Dave Coulier Every Day +...
Although Tumblr has been kicking around since 2007, 2011 was the year the microblogging site crashed into mainstream American culture (even Time magazine -- your grandfather's news magazine -- now has...
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French Graffiti Artist Maxime Bezat Arrested + a Jonathan Toubin Update In...
Here are a few things we missed while we were on holiday break... 1. French graffiti artist Maxime Bezat (aka RASK) was arrested in NYC last week on several felony charges related to "defacing" MTA...
View ArticleL.A. Garage Punks Fidlar's Crazy New Year's Eve House Party Show
Papermag photographer Rebecca Smeyne is in L.A. for the next few weeks, where she'll be covering shows, events and all the general weirdness the city has to offer for us. Below, her account of a...
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Photo of the Day: New Year's Eve at Pulqueria
Ugh, were we the only people working today? Even our nearby Pret a Manger was closed and we had to get through our morning without our usual iced coffee and yogurt thing with honey and bananas. Oh the...
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Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seed Exhibit Comes to NYC
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" installation is coming to New York City this week. The work was exhibited at London's Tate Modern in 2010, but was closed for a short time because of...
View ArticleShit White Girls Say ... to Black Girls
The "Shit Say" meme rolls on, awesomely, with "Shit White Girls Say ... to Black Girls," courtesy of 27-year-old comedian and blogger Franchesca Ramsey. Cringe away.
View ArticleMr. Mickey's Shopaholic Diary -- Felt Sandwiches, Carrie Fisher's Memoir +...
Hi, my name is Mr. Mickey and I'm a shopaholic. And I don't want to get better because I buy such cute stuff! Here's a peek at some of my online purchases that have arrived in the mail over the past...
View ArticleNew Year's Eve Photos from SoHo Grand, Westway + Red Egg
Papermag nightlife photographer Zac Sebastian had such a wild time on New Year's Eve, hitting up SoHo Grand, Westway and Red Egg, that he just emerged from his champagne-induced stupor and sent over...
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Tips for Today: Jazz-minh Moore Opens at Lyons Wier Gallery, Variety Shac at...
Jazz-minh Moore, "Is That All There Is," Opens at Lyons Wier GalleryFor her latest body of work, New York-based painter Jazz-minh Moore (who you might recognize as a contestant on this season of...
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