After details about the The Underbelly Project, a massive illegal art installation in an abandoned Brooklyn subway station, were released, it was only natural that people would try to visit the station. And it was just as expected that they would be arrested. Three arrestees told us about the experience, and all say it was dangerous and that anyone attempting to visit will most likely be arrested, since "the police are there now and they said they plan to be there for a while"—and the plainclothes cops may have their guns drawn!
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Results tagged “illegalart”
Underbelly Trespasser: Cops "Didn't Have Enough Cuffs"
Carrie McLaren, Editor, Stay Free!
See The Monkeys Chelsea Market Didn't Want You To
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.
The Grey Video
You can download the Grey Album at Illegal Art. And our investigative unit in San Francisco found out that the domain name is registered to an Antoine Tinguely in NYC, who works at design company Trollback and won an Emmy for designing the titles of HBO's Hysterical Blindness.
Illegal and Legal Music Notes
Both Jay Z's Black Album and Dizzee Rascal's In Da Corner made the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop List.
Social Commentary Barbie
You can see some of Forsythe's Barbie art here. Of course, the most imaginative recent use of Barbie has been in a "safe for work" version of the Paris Hilton sex tape – that is, if naked Barbies are safe for work – from Millionaire Playboy.
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