Month: March 2014
Emma Kohlmann’s art is an abstract, hyper-sexualized version of Raymond Pettibon. Like Pettibon, she is very much connected to the current punk scene; she has done work for Thurston Moore/John Moloney, HOAX and Natural Law. Unlike Pettibon, she is a strong, young 2014 woman, and her work exhibits sexual taboos of a more consensual nature, as […]
The Flaming Lips, fresh off of covering Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety, have gone and done the Flaming Lipsiest thing possible: released an “immersive companion piece” to that venerated classic of bong-rock. The new record, dubbed Flaming Side of the Moon, is designed to be played simultaneously with Dark Side — ideally, “the original Alan Parsons’ […]
Last year, we posted about the metal donation boxes that aren’t as charitable as one might think, with companies like Green Tree re-selling up to 97% of donated clothing for “reprocessing.” DNAinfo reports that the New York Department of Sanitation removed 57 of these illegally-installed boxes from the streets in the past nine months. While […]
Get your ticket-buying reflexes ready. Dave Chappelle just announced an appearance at Radio City June 19, which will almost certainly sell out immediately. Don’t worry, though: the iconic venue doesn’t have any other shows scheduled until nine days later, meaning they’ll likely be adding more dates down the road. According to Complex, it’s his first official NYC […]
Lemmy, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
SMITH sitting pretty in a Brooklyn subway tunnel. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This is concert violinist David Aaron Carpenter playing Stradivari’s 300-year-old “MacDonald” viola, which is poised to be “the most expensive instrument in the world.” At Sotheby’s on Monday, Carpenter performed Isaac Albéniz’s 1892 “Asturias” with its “passages that sound like nothing so much as heavy-metal shredding.” “It’s the pinnacle of my career,” Carpenter said. “Every moment up until this point […]
Migos’ No Label II is a good mixtape, but it’s also 25 tracks long. Commenting on the tape at Pitchfork, Carrie Battan wrote, reasonably, that she would “enjoy this mixtape quite a bit if it were six to eight tracks shorter.” Well, here’s 10 Track Tapes, a new project from Meaghan Garvey aimed at “streamlining new and […]
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 58° F NIGHT 32° F “Of Landscape” looks into artificial and unstable images, represented by an aestheticized landscape idea. The exhibition explores, dissects, and re-informs the way we think about […]
You’ve seen the fake viral video ad of strangers kissing for the first time, so here’s one that’s a little different. From Handmade Studios, here are young Egyptian strangers shaking hands with the opposite sex for the first time. For real. “This is the first time I shake hands with a girl,” one young man says. […]
