Month: September 2013
In the newest addition to the Klaus_eBooks artist series edited by Brian Droitcour for Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, we are presented with Template Jams, an exciting collection of digital collages and poetry featuring ideal template designs as determined by artist Deanna Havas. For a sneak peak inside Havas’ new ebook, check out our screenshots above. Brian Droitcour on live-action […]
Andy Warhol once famously said, “I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting, I think you should take that money, tie it up and hang it on the wall.” He took his own advice, after a fashion, when he painted “200 One Dollar Bills,” a canvas of screenprints […]
It’s as dependable as the rising of the sun and the crowing of the rooster: if there is a fight, someone will film it, and if someone is filming it–usually on a smartphone in portrait orientation–someone will yell “Worldstar!” With that in mind, ANIMAL created this supercut, with Worldstars big and loud; Worldstars small and […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, London artist Jesse Darling talks about feeling, talking, and making the Superhero Series. This starts with a conversation and ends with a prototype. The process is continuous. All my ‘concepts’ come about as a way of thinking through stuff […]
Musician and visual artist Brendan Fowler is performing And Martin this afternoon at MoMA Atrium. Presented in conjunction with MoMA’s New Photography 2013, the exhibit expands on the artist’s previous musical project BARR, for which he became known in the early 2000s. It consisted of Fowler singing and talking over his iPod, transitioning to a performing live band. […]
Here’s the latest addition to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s permanent collection: the Liberator, the world’s first 3D-printed gun. The London design museum “acquired two Liberator prototypes, one disassembled gun, and a number of archive items” from Defense Distributed, the company behind the Liberator, and displayed them this weekend as part of the London Design Festival, […]
To no one’s surprise, two of the world’s only “art malls” are found in China. They’re called the K11 art malls, and they are (of course) part of a brand. The owner is a certain Mr. Adrian Cheng — corporate executive, art lover, and already one of the richest men in the world. The first […]
Over the weekend, the Department of Probation celebrated the release of Free Verse, a poetry magazine published by probation clients and staff. Issue 1 of the magazine is available for free PDF download from the DOP here, and contains several gems, including “For Earl” by Yasmine B. Lancaster. Duppy followed me from Kingston to Morris Avenue. I […]
Filmmakers Natasha Masharova and Anatoli Ulyanov created this short documentary about Kaparos, a ritual practiced on the eve of Yom Kippur by some of the city’s Hasidic Jewish population that involves swinging a live chicken around a person’s head, then slaughtering it. What they shot isn’t for the faint of heart–you will see chickens’ throats cut–but […]
Bradley, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
