Month: February 2014
Pawel Althamer’s interactive Draftsmen’s Congress project at the New Museum is getting heavily “tagged.” (Photo: @scottlynchnyc) […]
Want to smash some shit? Go to AiWeiweiWhoops.Net. Why? When painter Maximo Caminero threw and shattered an Ai Weiwei’s artwork in Miami last week, we didn’t buy his excuse: “I saw Ai Weiwei’s photos behind the vases where he drops an ancient Chinese vase and breaks it. And I saw it as a provocation by Weiwei […]
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 23°F NIGHT 15°F The Metropolitan Museum’s Spectrum presents “Let’s Get Digital,” a panel discussion on digital art with artists Cory Arcangel, Clement Valla, Carla Gannis, and Associate Curator of […]
The independent video game art collective Babycastles are known for their playfully absurd taste in underground games and their seriousness about video games as an art form. Over the last few years, they’ve risen from their birthplace in the basement of the old Silent Barn to infiltrate respected art establishments around the world. And on March […]
“Raster Raster” is an exhibition featuring 11 artists from New York, Lahore, Berlin, and Los Angeles, including some of ANIMAL’s favorites: Petra Cortright, Alexandra Gorczynski, Jayson Musson and Bunny Rogers. The work, now on view at the Cravey Gallery in Los Angeles, features 3D-printed sculptures of Jasper Spicero, Cortright’s digital paintings on silk, sitespecific installations, mixed-video-media pieces and more from artists whose […]
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. Hungry Ghost 781 Fulton Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Pastis 9 9th Ave, Meatpacking District, Manhattan The Wren 344 Bowery, East Village, Manhattan Bubby’s Highline 71 […]
Cheryl Dunn’s Everybody Street sets out to be a kind of definitive documentary on street photography, shadowing some of the most legendary practitioners — from Jill Freedman and Mary Ellen Mark to Bruce Gilden and Elliot Erwitt, as well as ANIMAL favorites Martha Cooper and Boogie. Its focus is their experience on the streets of New York […]
Remember how bitcoin’s largest exchange was crashing, then crashed? Finally, the Mt.Gox debacle has been visualized for the laymanliest of laymen by Taiwanese Animators! See Bitcoin’s largest exchange go offline after “technical issues.” See Mt.Gox locking down their physical office and fleeing. See the perpetrators of a two-year “virtual Italian Job” sabotage the spiffy, imaginary digital highways […]
Passengers at the Times Square-42nd Street station tattled on two clowns Wednesday night leading to the subway performers’ arrest. Since the two didn’t have permits, they were charged with “loitering with the purpose of entertaining,” and hauled off to a Midtown police station. Though they seemed in good spirits. “They sang the Beatles song ‘Goodnight’ […]
A 22-year-old man was smoking a “pot cigar” on the corner of 10th Avenue and West 39th Street last Saturday night, when he was approached by a police officer. According to the police, he swallowed the “physical evidence” of his alleged infraction, while it was still lit. He is being charged with obstructing governmental administration and tampering […]
