Fifty years ago, artist/activist Joey Skaggs took sixty hippies on a sight-seeing bus tour to suburban Queens. He called this satirical performance his “cultural exchange tour”. Read his story here on Artsy.net Here’s a preview… When Pranks Become Works of Art Artsy.net September 19, 2018 Fifty years ago, on a beautiful Sunday morning—September 22, 1968—I stood welcoming my guests onto a rented Greyhound … [Read more...]

Belgium based, Captain Boomer Collective, builds installations that border reality with fictional constructs. Their latest stunt is a beached 15-metre sperm whale looks to have managed to swim up the Manzanares River before coming to an abrupt halt by the arches of the Madrid’s oldest bridge. According to The Guardian the Collective says “The beached whale is a gigantic metaphor for the disruption of our ecological system. People feel … [Read more...]

Better check the coffin! Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94 by Margalit Fox The New York Times Sept. 17, 2018 Credit Larry Stoddard/Associated Press Alan Abel, a professional hoaxer who for more than half a century gleefully hoodwinked the American public — not least of all by making himself the subject of an earnest news obituary in The New York Times in 1980 — apparently actually did die, on Friday, … [Read more...]

LA based street artist Plastic Jesus shop-drops back-to-school bullet proof vests. Artist Infiltrates Back-to-School Shopping Displays with Bulletproof Vests Zachary Small Hyperallergic.com September 4, 2018 Plastic Jesus has replaced a handful of shopping displays with child-sized bulletproof vests as a satirization of Trump’s America. image courtesy Plastic Jesus If you’ve strolled through the clothing sections of a Los Angeles … [Read more...]

“Deaf people love porn too and it’s my job to make sure they enjoy it on every level.” Watch the video:PornHub Caption Writer – Mini-Mocks from Comedy Central h/t Digg Related posts:Subway Sexual Assault Prevention Gets Physical Mickey Mouse is Mourning Brian Janosch on Tech, Comedy, Bay Area Cynicism, and the Burning Man Wall … [Read more...]

Lost another friend from long ago… John Wilcock, Pioneer of the Underground Press, Dies at 91 by Robert D. McFadden The New York Times Sept. 13, 2018 John Wilcock, a British journalist and travel writer who played a major role in the emergence of the alternative press at The Village Voice, The East Village Other and the Underground Press Syndicate, died on Thursday at a care facility in Ojai, Calif. He was 91. He died after several … [Read more...]

Don’t postpone, just cancel Trump’s Military Parade. It’s already been done! Saving U.S. taxpayers at least $92 million and a lot of embarrassment, artist Joey Skaggs’ 33rd Annual April Fools’ Day Parade featured Donald Trump’s Military Extravaganza, with the world’s largest display of American military might ever! Trump pedaled a 9 foot nuclear missile craddled in a sling shot mounted on a tricycle. … [Read more...]

Doilies writ large. Street art with a difference: Artist creates spectacular wall-art doilies by Paulina Alexandra TheFirstNews.com August 16, 2018 A Polish woman is taking the street art world by storm with her astonishing murals of doilies. NeSpoon in Pont-l’Abbe, France, 2016. NeSpoon. NeSpoon is nine years-old and paints murals. Actually, NeSpoon is in her thirties and has a teenage daughter but after a decade in the corporate world she … [Read more...]

Activists Indecline hoist up naked Trump. Let’s hope this clown doesn’t get away with murder. Billboard pairs naked Trump clown statue with John Wayne Gacy quote by Emily Van de Riet CBS46.com August 17, 2018 LOS ANGELES, California (Meredith) — A billboard in Los Angeles is stirring up controversy after displaying a statue of President Donald Trump as a naked clown. The billboard reads, “A clown can get away with … [Read more...]

Artist Tom Bob takes everyday functional urban pipes, meters and hardware and turns them into creative and amusing works of art. Thanks Don. Related posts:Better Than Breaking Your Ankle in a Pothole COMBO Street Art: Same Spectacle, New Meaning In Celebration of Street Art, 2011 … [Read more...]