Yesterday, the New Museum unveiled its next exhibit, The Last Newspaper, which depicts how artists respond political news stories and images. Besides works including Luciano Fabro's Pavement Tautology—where yesterday's newspapers are used to mop the floor—and Dash Snow's Untitled—which has NYC tabloid covers of Saddam Hussein's downfall decorated with semen and glitter—performance artist William Pope.L is supervising a restaging of his work Eating the Wall Street Journal (2000). To reprise this famous performance, he's "enlisting a team of collaborators to occasionally wander throughout the museum eating the financial daily." At the exhibit's opening party (Gothamist was a media sponsor), Obama-mask clad figures were clutching bundles of Wall Street Journals and indeed eating the broadsheet. more ›

New York Works is a vibrant series of audio portraits of New York characters plying dying trades, like the knife sharpener who still makes house calls and one of the city’s last water tower builders. Though recorded in 2002, the show’s charming portraits of a vanishing New York are more timely than ever – and, in case you missed it, they can be now listened to online. more ›