Month: September 2013
A Net Art Show on the Internet Review is a new ongoing series of reviews of net art shows… on the internet. Art Baby is an online exhibition space that supports artists who “consider digitality to be a main focus of their practice” “in the beginning stages of their career.” Currently on view: Aimee Leigh. Expectingly, […]
Sean Kelley Gallery’s upcoming exhibition From Memory: Draw a Map of the United States is a drawing project originally conceived and produced by Japanese artist Hisachika Takahashi in New York. In the early ’70s, the artist began requesting small drawings of the continental United States by his colleagues, recreated from memory on handmade Japanese paper. Twenty-two […]
The ever-busy, Brooklyn-based art collective known as Faile was commissioned to do a massive mural on the entire side of a building in Hell’s Kitchen. Faile tells ANIMAL they created the design and that the masters of hand painting big stuff, Colossal Media, will be doing the execution–like the outdoor advertising company did with Greg […]
Yesterday, we stopped by Leila Heller Gallery before the opening reception of CALLIGFRATTI 1984-2013, a redux of the landmark exhibition that Jeffrey Deitch and Leila Heller curated in 1984 and Deitch’s first New York show in awhile. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between graffiti and calligraphy, as found in the works of nearly fifty artists: Keith Haring, […]
My apologies for bringing your attention to this, but apparently Chris Brown spray painted Justin Bieber’s skate ramp with a wolf and skull motif. Ever since artist Ron English did that art show with Chris Brown, his ego has been bursting at the seams with artistic mimicry, testosterone and dumb. I’m sorry, graffiti. I’m sorry, skate […]
I’ll never get used to seeing horses clopping down busy Manhattan streets. I shot these horses’ portraits near the corner of 52nd Street and 11th Avenue, where many of these tourist-transporting animals and their novelty vehicles are parked. Just look at those faces. Look into their eyes. Then, looking beyond the horses, behind their swinging bag […]
Non-for-profit arts organization Platform Six is currently hosting their first Exhibition and Art Charity Auction featuring the work of ten artists. That includes Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Elton John and Boy George, and actually… These are pretty good. For shoes. Or art. For art shoes. Victor Ivanov’s pig flesh and head and resin Adidas are very […]
The vote on a proposed law in the small town of Deer Trail, Colorado to legalize and issue licenses for the shooting down of federal drones is still a month away, but the town has already received 1,000 applications, according to the Daily News. Of course, if passed, the legislation will be absolutely toothless, considering shooting a […]
Christopher Tang, the guy who drove a record-breaking 24-minute lap around Manhattan last week, was arrested last night. No word on how the cops found Tang, who uploaded a video of the lap under the pseudonym “AfroDuckProduction” and didn’t leave any obvious traces of his identity in the video. He was charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving, […]
Stop by Gowanus’s Serett Metal Works in the next few days and you may catch a glimpse of a Banksy. Not because the artist painted an original work on the building, but because it’s the temporary home of a piece hacked out of a Los Angeles wall, taken, and sold by the shady Hamptons gallery owner Stephan […]
