Month: January 2013
Considering January’s unseasonably warm temperatures, this “thin ice” sign in Central Park could use some adjusting. (Photo: Phil Davis/Flickr) […]
“Deathly warning, violent deaths, gentle death,” vintage autopsies, necro-romance, skulls skulls skulls, Goya, Dix, Dürer, more skulls… Ohh. The recently-opened exhibition “Death: A Self-portrait” is a inquiry/somber celebration of the cross-cultural obsession with death and its artistic presentations, from Adriaen van Utrecht’s 17th-century Vanitas: Still life with a bouquet and skull to contemporaries. Memento mori. Watch the trailer of the exhibition. […]
“We’re going to do a lot of things the museum said we can’t do.” That we did. Last Saturday, Prince Rama held court at the Brooklyn Museum. It got spiritual. There was also glitter. The Brooklyn band’s life-philosphy/religion/budding cult the Now Age may not totally alleviate our post-2012 existential paranoia, but it does provide some […]
The newest addition to NASAs fleet of spacecraft may be filled with air, as the agency awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to develop an inflatable extension to the International Space Station. Though it sounds a bit like sci-fi fantasy, inflatable space technology is very real, and has been in place since the […]
For the past five years, photographer Amy Stein spent hours at a time driving the freeways, looking for them — perched by the highway by their broken-down car, listless, stagnant, anxious… “To me it’s a metaphor for what’s been happening across the country,” she says. In exchange for staying even stiller for these gorgeous medium format portraits, […]
Last week, the City of New York announced that it would be rolling out newly designed parking signs to replace older, more confusing ones. A major part of that overhaul, which was done by a design firm with one of the coolest names ever, consisted of a “simplified layout that cuts back on the number […]
Edinburgh University scientist Dr. Ian Woodhouse hates deforestation. You like art. So how’s this… how’s your precious, precious art lookin’ now, with all the trees clear-cut? Ah-HA! Posted on his blog Forest Planet and ArtInfo, Woodhouse had the trees rather skillfully Photoshopped out of Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte (1884-86), John Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821) and Vincent van Gogh’s Olive Trees with […]
Though the story is as well-worn as any myth, the plot of the original Star Wars trilogy–spanning planets, and with a deep cast of characters–is epically complex. With his current exhibit at Los Angeles’s Gallery1988, Artist and mapmaker Andrew DeGraff seeks to plot the events of each film in as much detail as possible. This […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, NYC graffiti-bombing legend COPE2 shows us what a quick sketch of his wall piece looks like. I did this sketch pretty quick once I knew I was putting a wall together with several graffiti artists. If I’m just […]
From now until April humpback whales will gather off the coast of Hawaii for mating season. In hopes of attracting their counterparts, males will sing their beautiful, eerie songs, with long, complex, repeating melodies that can last for hours on end. Since 2003, Hawaii’s Jupiter Research Foundation has been dropping waterproof microphones 60 feet into […]
