Month: June 2013
Artist Federico Massa aka Cruz painted a breakthrough mural for Williamsburg Cinemas. (Photo: Federico Massa) […]
Nick Cave pretends to chauffeur Kylie Minogue and Ray Winstone. Nick Cave watches Scarface with his twelve-year-old sons. He goes to a psychoanalyst, has lunch with Warren Ellis and visits the Nick Cave Archive at the “Melbourne Arts Centre” set. But not really. For their upcoming “drama-documentary” 20,000 Days on Earth, conceptual artists and music history re-enactors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard don’t […]
Eenmaal is one of Amsterdam’s newest restaurants and it’s the first to only offer tables for one. I wonder if this idea could ever catch on in the US. American news outlets barrage with articles and guides about “Eating Solo.” A lot of the “tips” are focused on making the dining not actually solo and explain how to talk to your […]
What better way to mark the 110th birthday of the writer behind 1984 and Animal Farm than this? A Dutch art group called Front404 decorated surveillance cameras in Utrecht with pointy little party hats on June 25, because even the eyes in the sky can appreciate the late literary great and his disturbingly prophetic vision of the future. Front404 […]
We’ve seen a lot of tributes for graffiti writers who have passed away, but never like this. Over the past few days, numerous artists have been descended upon Williamsburg to put up NEKST, a prolific graffiti artist who passed away in December of 2012. For three blocks, the name NEKST appears over and over, each […]
ANIMAL stopped by the opening of Jonas Mekas’s exhibit “OUTLAW: NEW WORKS” at the Microscope Gallery last night. The 90-year-old Lithuanian filmmaker, “godfather of American avant-garde cinema” and founder of the invaluable Anthology Film Archives was cheerful and friendly, despite the aggressive theme of his show. I dedicate this Exhibition to all artists who had to go […]
Graffiti artists REVOK and POSE made a lot of progress last night on the Bowery Wall, adding a few more tributes to fallen writers as well as a NYPD squad car being crushed. But it’s not complete yet. There’s still some work to be done and until everything is filled in and the lifts are […]
As you may have heard, this week, City Council passed two bills with the power to drastically increase oversight of the NYPD. The reactions from the public have been polarized across the board, but none was more extreme than that of a caller on John Gambling’s radio show this morning. Michael Bloomberg, a 71-year-old white […]
After the Supreme Court struck down DOMA as unconstitutional, happy same-sex couples from around New York headed off to tie the knot at the City Clerk’s office. Congratulations! Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Road From Karakol follows one man on a two-wheeled journey across Kyryzstan, the mountainous former Soviet Republic west of China. And as if cycling all over the 77,000 square mile nation wasn’t challenge enough, Kyle Dempster also climbed as many peaks as he could while on his journey. See The Road from Karakol tonight at the 2013 […]
