Keith Haring’s remarkably uninhibited erotic mural at the LBGT Community Center
Keith Haring at the Tokyo Pop Shop Keith Haring had the great good fortune to become one of the most iconic and recognizable of the…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 11/2013
Society of the spectacle: Classic ‘Media Burn’ art prank skewers American life, 1975
On July 4, 1975, the San Francisco art collective Ant Farm staged its highly media-savvy “Media Burn,” in which a revamped Cadillac would crash, Evel…
F is for Orson Welles’ FBI file
From 1941 until 1949, Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, was a serious object of surveillance by the FBI. This is…
‘Once in a Lifetime’: Talking Heads’ mind-scrambling concert video
In 1984, the same year that Stop Making Sense was released, another meticulously crafted Talking Heads concert movie made its debut as well. I refer…
Will Yoko Ono ever stop being relevant?
Is this the year of Yoko Ono? A few weeks ago, we showed you her in-your-face, mindfuck appearance on Letterman, and now she’s dropped a…
Motivational fitness mottos paired with images of alcoholism
I don’t know what genius came up with the idea of putting inspirational fitness slogans about “never quitting” over people who have consumed waaaaaaaaaaaay too…