Month: January 2013
For its latest art sale, online gallery Dirty Pilot has curated a show featuring black book pages from some of graffiti’s most legendary pioneers and train painters. With work from the likes of STAY HIGH 149 (RIP), SEEN, CES, QUIK, REVOLT, BLADE, GHOST, COPE2, and others, no introductions are really necessary. The pages range in […]
Today, as DC hosts Obama’s Inauguration (yey, it’s not the other guy, yey!), we bring you this very Presidential time-lapse, made for the occasion. Behold, Chicago-based artist Jeremy Tubbs‘ erratic flip-book of 2,500+ photographs of the president, dated January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2012, collected “from the internet” and arranged chronologically so you can watch him… get […]
Um, so, who wants to see Skin Diamond do xxx stuff with a giant spongy yellow mascot-thing? If you answered yes, you’re either (1) that much of a fan of Skin Diamond, (2) have seen everything on the internet and hence down to see anything on the internet or (3) have forever had this very […]
Hal, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
The skateboards in Mounier Fatmi’s Maximum Sensation installation at the Brooklyn Museum look like Muslim prayer rugs… but EXTREME! (Photo: Saya Sings/Flickr) […]
And now, a banging little musical interlude. Happy Friday, everyone! (Video: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Jen Carlson of Gothamist took a trip to the Rare Books Division at the New York Public Library, and found a blank copy of the first printed liquor licenses issued in New York City. It seems like a decent deal: Pay twenty pounds, drink with the Queen’s approval. Keep the “good Rule and Order,” though. […]
This evening, ANIMAL is teaming up with advocacy group Stamp Stampede to raise awareness about Citizens United, one of the most obscene Supreme Court rulings ever handed down by old people in robes. We’ll do this by taking a projector-equipped van around the city, putting enormous images like the one above on various buildings and […]
Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since being granted asylum in June 2012. And now, someone sent the Wikileaks founder a present. As ArtInfo points out: It’s art. Delivery for Mr. Assange (2013) created by the !Mediengruppe Bitnik collective rigged a parcel with a tiny camera that records and uploads an image every 10 seconds onto […]
Perhaps the strangest thing about Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine’s very strange latest project, is that RiFF RAFF was reportedly asked to play the James Franco role. While the Houston rapper never actually made it into the film, Franco’s character was clearly heavily based on the man and his signature style. After the trailer dropped yesterday, MTV Hive […]
