Month: September 2013
Siouxsie, Bushwick. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The street artist who goes by the name Elle, appears to have found a new medium to exhibit her work in Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. Are you wondering what the world leaders are doing at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg? […]
This is The Wizard of Oz, as told in color only, based on the frequency in which specific colors are either mentioned or alluded to within the text of the book. British artist Jaz Parkinson created this series of alternate book cover designs for Smithsonian because “interested in showing how the human mind can transform a word of text into […]
Along with the New York Post’s snazzy new website redesign comes a prominent link to the rag’s merchandise store, which features a few shirts and other things that are a lot smarter on the whole than the Post deserves. Among them is this t-shirt featuring the Post‘s cover from Obama’s election day in 2008, which got us thinking: […]
Café des Artistes is packed with storied New Yorkers. Walt Frazier, Tina Fey, RZA, Jonathan Lethem, Diane Von Furstenberg, Woody Allen, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are just a few of the many familiar faces in artist Tom Sanford’s latest body of work, which opens to the public today at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in Chelsea. Sanford tells ANIMAL […]
San Francisco’s armory turned bondage/S&M/erotic wrestling porn-making warehouse for Kink.com has been the subject of several professional photo projects and a James Franco documentary which may or may not exist. The Bound for Success photo essay from photographer and filmmaker Shaul Schwarz is a very glossy, rival to on-set photography of big blockbuster films. It really fits […]
Joey Jordan lives in San Francisco. Amarildo lives in Brazil. The two have never met and know virtually nothing about each other, but Jordan has a small, realistic portrait of Amarildo–sunglasses on, arms crossed, and smirking, with a cigarette hanging from his lip–tattooed squarely on his right butt cheek. Why? Because of “human connection and […]
Earlier this year, Realm Recognize Realm won Rhizome’s Internet Art Grant (and complimentary legitimacy). But the $2,000 “award for the creation of new internet based artworks from members of the Tumblr’s thriving artist community” is not enough to keep it real IRL for a six-day, all-ages tour along the East Coast. So, here’s their Kickstarter. For this: REALM RECOGNIZE […]
Artist and prominent activist Steve Lambert’s recent piece Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False) is a massive 20 x 9 ft illuminated sign, fully equipped with a podium that allows the public to participate by voting. The piece, which was co-commissioned by the French Institute Alliance Française and Times Square Arts as part of FIAF’s 2013 Crossing the Line festival is set to be on view right in […]
