Month: September 2013
It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier on the nearly three centuries of western music that have followed it. It’s the kind of cultural landmark that should be freely available to anyone who’d like to listen, play, and marvel at its beauty, and now, thanks to this Kickstarter campaign, it may […]
Hundreds of people showed up to Bryant Park dressed in white this week for Diner en Blanc or, excuse me — “Le Dîner en Blanc” which “recalls the elegance and glamour of court society” as “diners engage one another knowing they are taking part in a truly magical event.” Although this public, white-clad affair is a far […]
A clever, mischievous street artist has shrink-wrapped at least two polizeiautos in Cologne, Germany. A few German bloggers seem to think it’s the work of Spanish public space interventionist SpY, which seems credible as he’s pulled this kind of thing in NYC before. We’ve reached out to the artist to confirm. UPDATE: We heard back from SpY, who confirmed that […]
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adele) is a 15-year-old Adèle and her relationship with art school student Emma. Twitch Film is calling it “one of the most shockingly explicit features to cross the pond in quite some time” and “one of the best films of the year.” It’s also three hours long, in French and based on a […]
Every part of Digital Grotesque — “the first human-scale immersive space entirely constructed out of 3D printed sandstone” — was designed with customized algorithms. Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger sculptural installation is a flat cube on the outside and an intricate subversion of classical sculpture on the inside, twisting and melting, sprouting and mirroring with “a complex geometry” of “260 million specified micro-details.” There are some […]
Data analyzed by WNYC shows people accused of a felony in New York City are held in jail an average of 95 days before trial. It’s only natural that some of those accused will end up acquitted or with their cases dismissed–there were 15,000 such cases in 2010–meaning it’s possible for a person to sit in […]
Robert, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Guzzled, a Brooklyn-based something or other that bills itself as the “coolest art movement ever,” is combatting “compulsive consumption” by putting up signs promoting its compulsively consumptive website webstore. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Earlier today, we received an alert from NotifyNYC, that said there will be “20-30 aircrafts flying single file out of Sky Manor Airport at 1,100 feet down the Hudson River this afternoon at 3:30 PM.” So, we grabbed our video equipment and scrambled up to the roof of our Hell’s Kitchen office to witness this […]
News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. There’s something about phones and video games in the news today. […]
