The Met
We Spoke to One of the Anarchists Who Designed London's Viral Anti-Cop Posters
Over the weekend, posters that looked like ads for the Metropolitan Police appeared all over the UK capital calling the cops institutionally racist.
Your Comments About the West London 'Selfies' Drugs Gang Pissed Me Off
It touched a nerve because one of the guys going to prison is my cousin, and he doesn't deserve your mockery.
In Defense of 'The Death of Klinghoffer' and Art That Takes Risks
We must leave space for irreverence, for non-didacticism, for hard questions, for the humanity of everyone.
A London Drug Gang's Selfies Are Sending Them to Prison
If you're a criminal, don't take photos of yourself doing criminal things.
A Surprise 'Music Video' for Karen O
On Sunday, during a ten-minute break as we were rehearsing and lighting at the Met, we made a very impromptu "music video” for Karen O in the spirit of her album. It just seemed like if you have the Opera House, that song, and Elle Fanning together...
Interpol Played the Temple of Dendur at the Met and it Was Incredible
Even the mummies got out of the sarcophaguses for a dance. (This is a lie.)
Photos of People Taking Selfies at an Art Museum
The proliferation of social media has created narcissists of us all. Is our self-obsession the new pop art? Or is it as meaningless as the digital void in which we now exist?
Photos from the Fake Town Where London Cops Train for Riots
The place is much like a film set—many of the peripheral buildings are just facades, while those at the "city center" are a lot more developed in order to give the trainees more varied terrain.
Komplaint Dept. - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Anna Wintour
"Pink is punk" reveals that the New York fashion industry and its sometime institutional handmaiden, the Costume Institute at the Met, its curators and the tacit captain of both ships, Anna Wintour, wouldn't know what punk is or was if it bit them on...
Murderous Fanatics and EDL Idiots Brought Darkness to Woolwich, London Yesterday
Yesterday afternoon in Woolwich, South London, two men ran over a soldier from the local army barracks, before getting out of their car and hacking at his body with machetes, while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" We spent the day there trying to make sense of...
Rich People Who Pretend to Be Poor Are Obnoxious
When you've got money, aligning oneself with a demographic that's actually struggling is a pretty gross thing to do.
Komplaint Dept. - Giving Up the Ghost: Andy Warhol Visits the Warhol Show at the Met
'Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years,' an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recently opened to some very negative reviews. The show is such a colossal disaster that another critical thrashing seems entirely pointless. The only...