Month: January 2014
Jael and Jan Sanchez, two 20-year identical twin brothers, finished a neck-and-neck race for New York City’s biggest dummy in a dual arrest over the weekend. Jael was stopped in his car Sunday morning, and attempted to hide some weed in his waistband during the stop. When cops saw the herb, they searched Sanchez and found […]
American artist Kara Walker will take over the historic deteriorated, 90,000-square-foot industrial dump that is Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refining Plant. Walker is most know for her room-size tableaux installations of black cut-paper silhouettes, often violent and sexual as well as shocking, fitting her subject matter — American Antebellum, slavery, abuse of power and rebellion. The factory will […]
A DNAinfo roundup of NYC businesses that accept bitcoin as a form of payment includes two bars: Old Man Hustle on Essex Street in the Lower East side, and EVR in Midtown near Bryant Park. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay and that’s that,” says Mike Jarmuz, owner of Old Man Hustle. “Bitcoins are fun. They are revolutionary.” The list […]
Marie, Williamsburg. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
COSBE channels the sentiments of virtually every New Yorker for his contribution to “Surplus Candy,” a temporary street art exhibit in an abandoned East Village building that’s slated for demolition. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 35° NIGHT 36° Destruction Unit bring their brand of heavy psych to St. Vitus. ($12, 8pm, Brooklyn) Porches are seemingly never not playing shows. This one’s at Silent Barn. ($7, 8pm, […]
Hanksy — a street artist who isn’t exactly ANIMAL’s favorite — is doing something pretty cool: he’s hosting a street art show at an abandoned building that’s slated for demolition in the East Village tonight. It’s called “Surplus Candy,” and it features the likes of Icy and Sot, El Sol 25, Moustache Man, Dee Dee, […]
Voice of Russia — the Russian government’s radio broadcasting service — reports that a gigantic Banksy exhibit is coming to Moscow, allegedly. The exhibition of “more than 130 paintings, sculptures, graffiti, collages and videos of the most famous modern incognito artist” isn’t just popping up anywhere but in the grand Manezh Exhibition Centre aka the Moscow Manege, […]
Bratty famous person Justin Bieber does not do graffiti. Sure, he stands in front of walls–sometimes guarded by the police–shakes cans of spray paint at them, and depresses a nozzle in a way that mimics what writers do. However, it’s not graffiti or even street art that comes out, but a rare form of desperate […]
Important curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist just curated the 300-square inch space of Water McBeer gallery. It’s run by artist Henry Gunderson. It’s really 300-square inches. Obrist curated “Nanomuseum” featuring a Chris Marker piece titled Homage to Schnittke. Here are some photos from the virtual reception. Oh, hey Kanye. What can we say about Chris Marker’s tribute to the Soviet composer? Well, the Fortississimo and Fermata musical […]
