Month: July 2013
“Innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t mean much when it’s this easy to be “proven guilty.” Case in point: Donald Andrews, the owner of a head shop in Scotia, New York, who was the target of a paid police informant’s bogus drug bust in April. All it took was a sneakily planted crack-cocaine baggie onto the […]
Something was conspicuously missing from that Fox News clip we posted earlier today, in which the anti-drug bishop Ron Allen rails against the “horrible” nature of a pro-cannabis ad at NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 race: a comment from the Marijuana Policy Project, the ultra-successful pro-weed lobbying group behind the spot. The Fair and Balanced news network […]
As part of Christie’s upcoming “Out of the Ordinary” sale in September, there’s a set of eight paintbrushes reportedly used by the legendary painter Francis Bacon up for grabs. Seeing as the artist’s most stunning and raw portrait paintings already sell for millions of dollars at auction, the estimated value of just over $38,000 seems to be quite the bargain, relatively speaking. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn artist Mike Perry shows us his visual ideas for making the sculpture Oozing Sandwich of Time, and a few other related sketchbook pages. My process is a fluid, ever-growing way of existing. Oozing Sandwich of Time: Artist’s […]
A new video interview with the back-home-to-NYC-bound director of L.A.’s MoCA museum Jeffrey Deitch has just surfaced in which he is being interviewed by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of the well-known singer, songwriter, and recent portrait painter Bob Dylan. During the course of the six-minute interview, Deitch explains what it was like seeing the first artwork […]
A perfectly reasonable, benign ad for cannabis played at the NASCAR Brickyard 400 this past weekend. The spot played on a big video screen near the track’s entrance, and espoused the idea that weed could be the next (possibly even better) beer–no calories, no hangover, no links to reckless or violent behavior. Predictably, some puritanical […]
The MTA really loves their “see something, say something” campaign and according to New York Magazine, has “licensed it to 54 different agencies around the world.” One of those agencies is the Department of Homeland Security, which is taking that message above ground and applying it to life in general. The lazily hued new ad […]
It’s not like the NSA honoree who want’s the NSA abolished, though. Pirate Bay co-founder Tobias Andersson believes his baby should be shuttered, but only to make way for newer, more powerful torrenting networks. “The Pirate Bay in its current form must end. It’s not built and meant for what is coming,” he said. “The future […]
More important work from New York’s finest. After a February raid on a Midtown store selling counterfeit Justin Bieber cologne failed to stop the shop from hawking the goods, the city is suing the establishment–Jacks Perfume, at 1220 Broadway–with the intent of shutting it down. “Our job is to come here and to sell,” a […]
Jesus, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Andy Cush/ANIMALNewYork) […]
