Month: September 2013
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Melissa Clarke talks about Untitled: Ice Gouge for Performance — her sound piece, installation and performance that sources field recordings of glaciers. The artist is also premiering footage of her performance of the piece at Brooklyn’s Silent […]
Nick Cave (not be confused with Nick Cave) told Marc Maron that Russell Crowe asked him to write a script for Gladiator 2. Crowe watched the Australian western The Proposition that Cave wrote with John Hillcoat and liked it. When Cave asked Crowe, “Hey, Russell, didn’t you die in Gladiator 1?” Crowe answered, “Yeah, you sort that out,” and then […]
This morning, Dennis Rodman emerged into a conference room at Manhattan’s Soho Grand Hotel, cigar in his mouth and sparkly scarf around his neck, to a sea of eager reporters. Flanked by representatives from the International Crisis Group and the Irish betting firm Paddy Power, he rambled, seemingly without forethought, through references to his wedding […]
Check out that intricate wood and foam maquette for Detroit’s upcoming ten-foot-tall Robocop statue. The project, based on an original design by Fred Barton Productions, was fully funded on Kickstarter earlier in 2011 and is nearing the final steps of its completion. See a glimpse of the large statue arriving in several pieces at Venus Bronze Works, where much of the initial […]
Remember all that noise about 3D-printed guns? And then the subsequent panicked government attempts to censor and regulate the downloads of files that take a huge, expensive effort to turn into breakable physical objects? F.A.T. artist Kyle McDonald has a few things to say about that. I believe that networked media, in its current form, can not […]
H.P. Lovecraft’s creature descriptions are notoriously dense, detailed and revolting. Like so, in “At the Mountains of Madness” (1931): Important discovery. Orrendorf and Watkins, working underground at 9:45 with light, found monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature; probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts. Tough as […]
Colombian street artist Stinkfish tells ANIMAL that he is on his way to India after spending over a week in Nepal, where he was busy painting. “This was a 10 day trip I just finished,” writes the Bogota-born artist in an email. “The pieces are located in the cities of Kathmandu, Patan, Pokhara and Bhaktapur. […]
Today it’s being widely reported that the name “World Trade Center” was sold by Port Authority for $10 almost three decades ago to the World Trade Centers Association, a non-profit entity founded by one of the agency’s bigwigs, Guy Tozzoli. During the construction of the Twin Towers, his title was Director of the World Trade […]
Melzack, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Nate Cepis/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Adjacent to that vacant Williamsburg lot that doubles as an illicit public art gallery is this building, which was painted not too long ago by Phetus88. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
