Mid-August, and you are suffering from a humid brand of heat delirium. Sometimes it feels like we are sleepwalking into the future, pummeled by advertising and exhausting news cycles; with the Iranians head-faking Trump for the 30th time, the Chinese tripling, quadrupling monthly gold purchases, the blockbuster Odyssey movie retelling the story of Troy, and Bushwick is still a great source for stories about roommates from Hell. There is fresh corn on the cob on sale at the farmers market in your nearby park, Fake AI ads are taking over West 4th Street, and Luigi Mangione plead guilty in federal court Friday.
Italian graffiti and conceptual artist Elfo, whose cryptic unpainterly interventions often employ language, irony, appropriation, and deliberately rudimentary aesthetics to …Read More »