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This past weekend, Animal Magazine had a show of various artists work at the Chelsea Market. One work, a portrist of President Bush using monkeys, caused the Chelsea Market's manager to freak out and forced the show to close. Of course there is debate about free speech, references to Mayor Giuliani's reaction to Chris Ofili's Virgin Mary embellished (quite beautifully, in Gothamist's opinion) with
Not quite the same, but along similar lines: Illegal Art, where you can find illegal DVD-R's of Superstar, Todd Haynes's movie about Karen Carpenter. Meccapixel has some monkey photos (marmoset, colobus) and Gothamist likes us some monkeys.
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dear Gothamist:
bear with me, because I'm applying for a Ph.D. in bioanthropology and have to take issue with this one. it's an age-old mistake, but chimpanzees are apes, *not* monkeys. we are, too: humans, chimps, bonobos, gorillas, gibbons, siamangs, and orangutans - all apes.
representin' for the Hominoidae.
oh! the cowmonkey loves gothamist, and we're very pleased that gothamist likes monkeys. :)