Month: June 2013
You’ve seen documentaries about tap water bursting into flames and read all about the lives it ruins in the news, but fracking isn’t a process you often get to see IRL. If you find yourself in Northwest England this summer you can come pretty close, though, by checking out Fracking Futures, a new installation at […]
In an apparent effort to defend itself after Dorothy Rabinowitz’s insane comments about the “all-powerful bike lobby” and the “totalitarians” running the New York City government, the Wall Street Journal published a follow-up video addressing the backlash today. Titled “Yes, There Really Is a Bike Lobby,” the clip features Alex Kazam–a WSJ intern, as far […]
London-based photographer Martin Usborne is back with a hypnotic new photo series of his favorite canine muses. Just as penetrating and otherworldly as The Silence of Dogs in Cars, here’s a new portrait series — Nice to Meet You. Tormented, complicated, all-knowing, and mysterious, there’s a certain something about these dogs that’s eerily human. They beg the […]
Renowned Italain sculptor Maurizio Cattelan announced his retirement from contemporary art immediately following his retrospective at the Guggenheim, but he has hardly slowed down production in any way. In addition to collaborating with Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrariis on his publication Toilet Paper, the artist has now designed a bold line of impressive unisex sweatshirts for Milan-based fashion brand MSGM. These designs, […]
“I hate going to countries where I’ve just got to walk with a Mac, because it seems like I’m not doing nothing,” says acclaimed reggae selector Trevor Sax of the legendary Saxon Studio International sound system to ANIMAL. “I like to play the vinyls.” Thanks to an endorsement from some very solid people on the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn painter Tatiana Berg’s painting inspired by Mad Men’s Megan Draper. I’m not an artist that believes in working with a plan: Paint doesn’t lie, and I don’t work from totally pre-planned sketches because you’d be able to […]
Transgressive art-stalwart Orlan is suing Lady Gaga and Universal in Paris. According to Le Quotidien de l’Art via ARTinfo, Orlan wants $31.7 million or 7.5% of “Born This Way” album and video profits, citing three specific art works which the artist aggressively homaged including Femme Avec Tête (“Women With Head”), 1996. Since it’s a decapitated head on a table and those […]
In the three weeks since it launched, Citi Bike has logged 250,000 rides that total almost 700,000 miles. Yay! But is bike share a thinly veiled totalitarian scheme to overthrow the spirit of democracy in NYC? Stay tuned! Casey Neistat, a filmmaker and well-known member of New York’s All-Powerful Bike Lobby, set out to answer […]
At least one form of communication is still safe from PRISM, the long-ranging NSA electronic surveillance program uncovered this month. According to a statement Apple released today, the company does not release any iMessage, Facetime, Siri search, or Maps search data to any law enforcement agency. The encryption on those two formats is so thorough, […]
Michael Grimm, the possibly mob-affiliated Staten Island Republican who has ginned up the outrage machine over “offensive” art, painted some teenaged vandalism of his office as a Democratic plot, and had his campaign funding repeatedly investigated on the federal level, is up to his old tricks again. Allegedly pissed off that he wasn’t invited to […]
