Here’s the visual aftermath of the art and rap world colliding when Jay Z recited “Picasso Baby” for hours on end during an invite-only performance at Pace Gallery a few weeks ago. In the video’s intro, Jay Z says this of the relationship he shares with the likes of Marina Abramović and Lawrence Weiner: “We’re […]
This week, a Swedish 16 year-old named Yung Lean, previously known by blog scourers for March’s half-viral video “Ginseng Strip 2002” – in which the bucket-hat-sporting white boy delivered rambling staccato half-raps about listening to R. Kelly and receiving oral sex from a Zooey Deschanel lookalike, over a gorgeous, sobbing beat – released the free […]
You’re a published author. Why did you decide to apply for an editorial internship at ANIMAL? I thought that more than any blog based in New York, ANIMAL covers a wide range of topics of interest — from Laurel Nakadate and Marina Abramović to police corruption — in a way that seems to offer […]
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” Legendary weirdo, New York’s theater director Robert Wilson’s “Peter Pan” just premiered at the Berlin Ensemble. Do you want to hear what NY band CocoRosie sounds like à la Wilson? Here’s a bootleg clip of it. It’s not quite as epically soul-crushing Wilson sugests, telling ARTinfo Germany: …the original […]
As if James Franco wasn’t busy enough, working with Marina Abramović on a documentary, etc, etc, etc, he’ll be performing an art this Sunday at MoMa PS1. While still reeling over the widespread success of Spring Breakers, the performance is said to be based off of Chekov’s The Seagull, featuring a combination of theater, dance, video, live and prerecorded music, […]
This weekend, popular mythical creature Tilda Swinton re-performed her 1995 piece The Maybe at the MoMA, without making a press announcement. She slept quietly inside a glass, aquarium-like enclosure as visiting crowds swarmed outside. She has been talking about doing this at the MoMA since 2005, before Marina Abramović performed her three-month The Artist Is Present epic. She will be doing unannounced pop-up performances throughout the […]
The Harlem Shake is all but dead (hopefully), and people might be voraciously searching for the new horse to beat past death. Gallon smashing–in which one carelessly tosses two gallons of liquid in the air near unsuspecting supermarket patrons as he pretends he slipped– is not it. As hilarious as this is, please don’t make […]
Here’s Brooke Candy aka the Marina Abramović of sexually agressive cybergoth rappers posing for Terry Richardson. First spotted in the mainstream via Grimes’ desert freak-out, here’s Candy in the acoustic form, that is… sans some of the “ghetto gothic” opulence and glitter, stripped down — still strappin’ the warrior alien princess suit, sometimes. Richardson brought her down to Earth a bit. And the […]
Indie developer Pippin Barr, known for his 8-bit simulation of Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present, has expanded his scope in an ambitious attempt to render the entirety of the New York City visual art world as video game. The biting microcosm Art Game offers you the experience of battling the impenetrable vision of one curator in […]
Groan. THAT IS NOT ART. But look at those visitors of Tate Modern and the Saatichi Gallery, look at ’em taking photos and videos of the awkardly posed duo Doug and Mikael holding ping-pongs in their mouths. They fell for it. Because… I don’t know… because Marina Abramović? If this was performance art, it would have been bad […]
