The story goes like this.

Kidult tagged Mark Jacobs’ NYC storefront with his not-patented fire extinguisher spray can, splashing “ART” over the facade. Jacobs took this in stride, printing a tee of the vandalized storefront with “Art by Art Jacobs”.

The kicker here of course was the accompanying $689 price tag. Of course, Kidult took great exception to this appropriation and commercialization of his vandalization and printed 50 pink shirts with a photo of him tagging the store and the tagline “Not art by Kidult”, selling them at $6.89 Euro each.

These shirts (see below) went on sale about 10 minutes ago. All 50 and another 50 white ones sold out in about 15 seconds. Sadly, I wasn’t able to score one despite the constant site refreshing at 2:59p EST. So instead of telling the story on my chest, I’m telling it here. 

Enjoy!

(Source: kottke.org)

Luminato says:

The Rufus Songbook (8:00 PM)

A vibrant assortment of emerging and established musicians, including Krystle Warren, Teddy Thompson, Sarah Slean, Royal Wood and Alejandra Ribera, interpret the words and music of Rufus Wainwright.

Rufus Wainwright (9:00 PM)

Rufus takes centre stage, together with an eight-piece band, for the Canadian premiere of all 12 tracks from his hotly-anticipated new release, Out of the Game. Producer Mark Ronson considers Out of the Game an even greater achievement than the landmark Back to Black he crafted for Amy Winehouse. It is also, says Rufus, his most popcentric work to date. 

Sounds like fun to me!

Photo: Tina Tyrell.