Month: March 2014
Urban Jungle is a Google Street View hack that, as the name suggests, adorns your city with trees, vines, and, with a bit of imagination on your end, sweltering heat and humidity. Creator Einar Öberg explains: Visit any place available in Street View by entering a location, drag the map to browse around and drop […]
“We thought it was up to ‘The Man,’ or whoever was in control of the art world,” artist Sarah Lannan tells to the Wall Street Journal, in an article misleadingly titled “An Art-World Love Story.” For years, Lannan and her husband Simon Evans have been making art together, art billed to Evans alone. Recently, they both decided to give her fair […]
Saoirse and Seán, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
SNOEMAN, SHAUN, AKS and ACNE leave their marks at the New Museum’s Pawel Althamer exhibit, legally. (Image: @thesnoeman) […]
Earlier today, we swung by McSorley’s Old Ale House to survey the Saint Patrick’s Day debauchery, and now, we’ve moved on to McFadden’s Saloon. As afternoon becomes evening, the crowds are getting drunker — shiny green beads, fake mustaches, and waitresses dancing on tables abound. See it all in the gallery. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Dublin is covered in vomit. I am hiding inside,” Irish artist Saoirse Wall tells us, pointing to this nifty EarthCam live stream as proof. So if you thought New York is getting into St. Patrick’s Day spirit rather early, it’s 8:30pm in Dublin and that’s what its famed tourist-beloved Temple Bar and the surrounding “cultural quarter” looks like. This is what […]
A leap of a minor sixth or perfect fifth, beginning on a key’s fifth or sixth note and jumping up past the tonic to its fourth, before resolving down a half step to the third. It’s a cheesy, melodramatic melodic move, and it’s popped up in its fair share of pop songs recently. Often, the […]
Friday night, two graffiti artists entered the Jerome Yard in the Bronx and painted a subway car. Again. They were VEW and CETE, the same duo responsible for the “Spy vs Spy” graffiti on the R and others. This time, they bombed a B train. VEW put up his crew “GI” and CETE painted his name. There was the […]
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re sitting at your office computer, despite the fact that St. Patrick’s Day is raging all around you. To mark the annual celebration of Irishness and alcohol, we headed to the city’s oldest continually-operating temple of booze, McSorley’s Old Ale House. Most patrons were very nice, but one woman […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Kate Wilson, talks about the Swiss and celestial inspirations of her Geometric Mechanics series for WAG — “a mini 3-dimensional, single room gallery that fits into people’s pocket.” In 2012, I began working on a series of drawings inspired by […]
