Month: February 2014
The Victoria & Albert Museum just released a document under Creative Commons that catalogs all art seized by Nazi Germany and labeled “Entartete Kunst,” or “degenerate art.” According to the museum, most of the works were confiscated from public institutions between 1937 and 1938, and the inventory was created around 1942, after much of the […]
For now, New York academic groups are free to boycott Israel all they want, as a bill that would limit their free speech on the matter has been withdrawn from the New York State Assembly. The legislation would curtail schools’ abilities to direct state funds to groups like the American Studies Association and the Association for […]
Frank, Long Island City. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Philanthropic graffiti writers continue to beautify an otherwise unsightly lot in the Lower East Side. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Smoking weed onstage is pretty tame, as far as Action Bronson goes. I saw him toss what looked like dozens of dime bags into the crowd at a Brooklyn show in 2012 (he did the same thing but with steaks a few weeks later), and he’s also thrown fans from the stage and relegated hecklers […]
Yesterday, it took ANIMAL 0.672 seconds to identify Molly Soda, aka the “anonymous” artist whose nudes, self-portraits and snap-shots were going to be displayed in a small Chicago gallery on February 8th without her consent or knowledge. Soda threw them out in a plastic bag years ago when relocating to Detroit. A stranger found them and somehow, […]
Meet Yung Lenox, your new favorite artist. He’s seven years old, lives in Seattle, Washington, and makes what look like magic marker drawings of classic hip hop albums (he dabbles in other genres, like metal and hardcore, as well). He’s been doing his thing for a while, showcasing work on Instagram but just recently began […]
There’s a show of Talking Heads-inspired Valentines opening at Portland’s Land Gallery this month. And while I don’t quite understand the connection between the band and the plot to sell greeting cards and candy romantic holiday, I do like the work that the gallery is showcasing on Tumblr. The show is called Love for Sale (get it?), so […]
The Satanic Temple, an NYC-based organization, is angling to have a Baphomet statue installed beside an existing monument to the 10 Commandments near Oklahoma’s state capitol. Douglas Mesner, the Temple’s spokesman and apparent leader, seems pretty reasonable. In an interview with The Atlantic, Mesner — who also goes by the distinctly more satanic moniker Lucien Greaves — gives some […]
The seeds of “America the Beautiful” were planted on a train. In the summer of 1893, Katharine Lee Bates, a 33-year-old English professor at Wellesley College, was traveling from her home in Massachusetts to Colorado, where she would be spending the summer teaching. While on her way, she took in the sights of the country […]
