Year: 2013
New York-based “biennial dedicated to live performance across the disciplines” Performa has announced its line-up for the year. From November 1st to the 24th, more then 60 venues from the Bronx Museum to the Grey Gallery are participating in hosting new commissions. Some of the artists will be incorporating live performance into their art for the first […]
To create the homespun map you see above, NYC-based artist Nobutaka Aozaki pretended to be a tourist. Clad in a cheesy baseball cap and toting a Century 21 bag, he walked around Manhattan, asking strangers to draw him directions. After talking to dozens, he assembled their bits of amateur cartography into From Here to There, the crowdsourced […]
Terrance, Port Authority. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
We showed you some of MOMO’s latest work in Brooklyn and now here’s one of DALeast’s many contributions to DUMBO. (Photo: Jake Dobkin/Flickr) […]
As we ran off the bus to 86th Street Beach at Far Rockaway, we made it just in time: The judging of the Creative Time’s second annual Artist Sandcastle Competition had began. Last year’s winners, artists Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw were surveying the largely conceptual sculptures. “We’ve been practicing judging for months,” they told us. “We […]
England’s seaside resort The Grosvenor has come up with a fantastic way to protect their prized Banksy mural, estimated to be worth $775,000. No one is going to chisel it out of the wall or haul it off for sale or drill through it or tag it. No one is going to see it either: The decorating team has […]
Willy Hartland is an animator who worked on both Beavis & Butthead and Daria. For his latest project, he’s creating what he calls an “Animated Documentary” of NYC. What does that mean? It’s a ten-minute film depicting “the everyday challenges that urbanites meet in public spaces,” using Hartland’s drawings of real-life New Yorkers and their situations as source material. […]
Quoth the Bible’s Book of Revelations: “When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, ‘Come and see!’ I looked and there before me was a baby crossed with a puppy! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power […]
Thanks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this week, you’ll be able to take an afternoon break to the deepest recesses of the Atlantic Ocean. From now until Friday, the NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer and an accompanying unmanned submarine are traversing the Northeast U.S. Canyons, and live streaming the entire thing. To tune in, use the player below. The […]
Coming this October: #Sandy, a book of iPhone photos of the titular storm, featuring the likes of 13th Witness, Erica Simone, and Stephen Wilkes behind the camera. It’s currently funding on Indiegogo, and 100% of royalties will be donated to Occupy Sandy and Sandy Storyline. Unless you’d rather not be reminded of the destruction that Sandy […]
