Photo via Twitter A couple days ago Jay-Z stood on a white platform at Pace Gallery in Chelsea, NYC and spit for six hours straight. He performed the same jam, “Picasso Baby” over and over again. It’s cringing to watch, but the articles below compensate for an otherwise uncomfortable spectacle. The social commentary isn’t lost, but it sure is evasive. Jay-Z is Rhyming Picasso and Rothko -New York Times Jay-Z Raps at Marina Abramovic, or the day Performance Art Died -Hyperallergic ‘Picasso Baby’ …
Author: Tracy Jones
Dangerous Minds wrote the best description, “A passenger aboard a Manhattan-bound New Jersey Transit commuter bus video-taped the driver pleasuring himself as the vehicle penetrated The Lincoln Tunnel and whipped into Port Authority.” …
If he got his chops from busking he’s official. …
Steve Arrington was the front man for the 70’s and 80’s band, Slave. He helped pioneer a sound that spawned every genre of electronic music in the last 40 plus years. He’s been sampled by everybody from from Q-Tip, Jay-Z, N.W.A., Mariah Carey to De La Soul and Jermaine Dupri. Arrington and contemporary funk crusader Dam-Funk converged to bring you Higher, a collaborative album featuring Arrington on vocals and Dam-Funk on production. The album drops August 6th via Stones Throw …
Legendary pop surrealist artist Ron English just had an art opening last Saturday at X On Main Gallery. For the first time in 25 years he’s exhibiting his photographs. The show is called Between Two Scenes. Before painting a naked Marilyn Monroe with Mickey Mouse breasts and combining President Obama and Lincoln’s face to create Abraham Obama, English was a photographer. Between Two Scenes runs through July 29th. Peep the short documentary on English: POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of …