Month: February 2014
In December, Mother London, the sister company of ANIMAL’s parent company, produced some limited edition Russian nesting dolls of British gay icons and sent them to the Kremlin. They were a big hit. When the actor, writer and activist Stephen Fry was asked to sign the charity dolls, we asked if we could tag along and use the opportunity […]
A new study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology confirms what you may have already known to be true: when it comes to art, people like weirdos. More specifically, researchers found that observers tended to more highly evaluate a work of art if they perceived its creator to be eccentric. To test their hypothesis, they […]
Last week, Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, formerly of Pussy Riot, were the center of a cocktail party fundraiser for the VOICE project, an NGO that ran their legal fund. I say “center,” rather than “hosts.” Nadya and Masha smiled for the cameras, paid tribute to Russian political prisoners, then disappeared upstairs. Their appearance lasted […]
It’s a pillow. Well, technically, the part that looks like a bag of weed is a pillowcase, but I’m sure there’s a pillow inside it. It’s called the Giant Stash Pillowcase, and it’s currently funding on Kickstarter. Take a look. It’s also got a very clever pitch video. “Awhile back I decided to make a […]
If the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation gets its way, the Stonewall Inn and Julius’, two longstanding icons of gay culture in New York City, will become official NYC landmarks. As DNAinfo points out, it’s already unlikely that the buildings would ever be torn down, as they’re part of a historic district, but the group would like […]
Shia, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
There’s been a lot of subway cars painted in the past few months and here’s another one according to the person who uploaded this image of a “tagged up” M train. (Photo: @Q23 Central Terminal) […]
Cecily McMillan, the Ocuppy Wall Street activist who suffered seizures after a violent encounter with cops in Zuccotti Park in 2012, goes to trial this week, and faces up to seven years in jail. The crime is the assault of a police officer; she allegedly elbowed a cop after he grabbed her breast during the […]
“I’m willing to get a ticket or get arrested,” artist Serge Miquel told ANIMAL after finishing installing his unauthorized art show inside a Bank of America in NoHo on Friday. After taping up the abstract drawings in every window of the ATM-only branch, Miquel walked across the street and started working on a sculpture. He asked […]
“It’s really important for artists to have a resource where they could get art supplies that aren’t from a corporation,” Arielle Avenia tells ANIMAL, showing us around the 10 x 12 Aftermath Supplies space at Brooklyn’s Silent Barn. (See our video tour above.) Since January 2013, Avenia and her business partner Devin Lilly have been selling donated, salvaged […]
