Year: 2013
If Mayor Bloomberg and New York City Housing Authority chair John Rhea get there way, land at eight Manhattan public housing complexes will be leased to developers to build luxury apartments. City Council, along with NYCHA tenants and the Legal Aid Society, is suing in an attempt to block that from happening. The plan would […]
Almanzo, Times Square. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A nonprofit, community-based organization that creates legal murals gives vandals fair warning that their illicit artwork in Williamsburg will soon be no more. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Richard Marshall reviewed Kafka: The Years Of Insight, the third and final part of Reiner Stach’s Kafka trilogy from Princeton University Press, 2013 and “the loneliness, horror, disgust and shame of writing” and “the awful presence of Kafka, even a Kafka mediated by biography” is almost “too unbearable, too destabilizing, too unnerving.” In other words, this really […]
The scent of baby wipes and powder is overwhelming inside the small installation space at Kianga Ellis Projects. It’s a functioning conceptual component of Nursery, an inaugural exhibition of General Howe’s latest Tumblr project The Animated Disasters of War GIFs. The artist has turned the project room into a fully functioning nursery, complete with a crib and changing station as well […]
According to a group of researchers at Brigham Young University, viewing a large number of pictures of food might actually make the food taste worse. That means the endless stream of amateur food photography available to you on Instagram might be ruining your appetite. The Salt Lake Tribune explains: Half the participants viewed 60 pictures of sweets […]
The softcore cut of Lars Von Trier’s highly-anticipated five hour explicit sex movie featuring celebrity actors and porn double CGI-mash-ups having explicit sex is being released in Denmark and Norway on Christmas and coming in hardcore all over Cannes Film Festival in 2014. So here are some new Nymphomaniac character posters. They are sexual. Should be intellectually […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Nicolò Tedeschi and Pietro Riva from Italian indie studio Santa Ragione about MirrorMoon EP, a dreamy PC game in which players navigate alien planets using reflective […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Smith & Mills 71 N Moore St, Tribeca, Manhattan The Great Georgiana 248 Dekalb Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn National 723 Fulton, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Ippudo […]
This is the first cover that director Gaspar Noé has shot. (Scroll down for boob.) Pop-electro-crooner Sky Ferreira released that “You’re Not the One” Tony Scott homage music video recently, so it makes perfect sense. She’s on that film-cred. Enter the Void director Gaspar Noé has previously directed a seizure-inducing music video for Animal Collective, one with an unsettlingly […]
