There are 32 famous artists in the Art Game — a new Top Trumps set of cards, available in September. Cutely illustrated — who doesn’t want Damien Hirst split in two, Divided-style — the playing cards “allow art lovers of all ages to play their favorite artists against each other to discover who rules the art world.” Numerical values are assigned to “influence,” “shock of […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 81° LOW 65° Opening this weekend: Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (see it at IFC) and Snowpiercer (see it at Nitehawk). Jeff Koons retrospective opens to the public […]
This fucking guy at the press preview of Jeff Koons’ retrospective at the Whitney. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Art is easy,” says Diego Leclery. That’s the biggest thing he’s learned in the last three weeks as a participating artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Sitting outside of the Whitney Museum, just under the bridge that leads to the entrance, Leclery plays the video game Civilization seven hours a day, five days a week. The […]
The Armory Show came and went with its hundreds of galleries. There was no Playoff Bracket. No one won an MVBooth Award. Sometimes, there is just no unified curatorial arch or higher implications in the motifs of a pile of stuff. Well, there are niche market trends. This year’s focus was on hot-shit galleries from […]
Did you hear that artist KAWS “reinvented” the iconic MTV VMA “Moonman” trophy? Look how reinvented it is! It reminds us a bit of some of his earlier work. It also reminds of his Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float. If you’re not one of the lucky award show attendees at the Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and miss what a 60-foot […]
Yesterday, on the scenic Greek island of Hydra, the internationally renowned Swiss artist Urs Fischer premiered his exclusive participatory art project. Children of all ages as well members of the public were invited to visit the island’s exotic location to make whatever they wish out of large amounts of colored modeling clay. Each of these many quite primitive looking sculptures, […]
Multi-media artist Hunter Jonakin — maker of our favorite video game Jeff Koons Must Die!!! — is working on a new project. He’s foraying into the realm of performance art. This isn’t art meant to sell a gallery. It’s art meant for you — the audience. Many of these clever performances are deeply rooted in trolling the “art […]
Blood. Bunnies. Strippers. Violence. Diamonds. Sexy nacho chips. NSFW. “If you prefer GIFS over Nips,” Los Angeles musician and performance artist Ashley “Actually” Huizenga says, “here is the YouTube, Rated PG13 version!” So here’s what might happen. First you’ll get entranced by those strange videos that compliment Actually’s scintillating pop. You may make a comparison to Jeff Koons’ ex-wife Ilona […]
Art world disrupter Istvan Kantor has once again found himself in the custody of the NYPD for writing the Neoist nom de guerre “Monty Cantsin” at an exhibition that was not his own. As ANIMAL previously reported, on Tuesday evening, Kantor tagged a mattress that was part of an installation at The Hole Shop by […]
