Month: March 2014
Banksy has teamed up with a coalition of international aid organizations to raise awareness for the conflict in Syria, creating another iteration of his “balloon girl” image. This time, she’s wearing a headscarf, and bordered by a hashtag — #WithSyria, the official slogan of a campaign spearheaded by Oxfam, Amnesty International, and Save the Children. […]
Today’s issue of Metro features an ANIMAL cover story about “The Neighbors,” an exhibition of Polish artist Pawel Althamer’s work at the New Museum. Draftsmen’s Congress, one of the works in the exhibition, asks attendees to draw and paint on the museum’s walls and floor, resulting in an immersive kaleidoscope of colors. According to Althamer, Draftsmen’s Congress, with its invitation to […]
In a proclamation to be issued today, City Council will recognize Kurtis Blow, Melle Mel, Afrika Bambaata, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster Caz, and a host of other first-generation hip hop icons. The honors were announced in a statement issued by Bronx Councilman Fernando Cabrera’s office. According to Cabrera, all honorees will be in attendance at City Hall […]
Across the country, mass transit ridership is higher than it’s been in half a century, and New York City is leading the way. According a report from the American Public Transit Association, Americans took 10.7 billion trips on subways, buses, streetcars, and commuter trains in 2o13 — 37.2 percent higher than in 1995. “As the […]
Kelis, Sunset Park. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After gussying up the Bowery Wall last July with REVOK, Chicago graffiti artist POSE returns to NYC to paint a much smaller, but interesting mural in SoHo. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Famous artist and perpetual merchandize peddler Damien Hirst is working on an autobiography, but it’s missing a couple of years. Hirst is allegedly blanking on his entire 20s (the stage of cognitive development when the frontal lobes of his cerebral cortex were still forming judgement skills for the rest of his life). In the most British way possible, The Guardian reports… Unfortunately, an excessive […]
Tonight, artist Genesis P-Orridge will be reading from h/er new multimedia book of previously unreleased photos, poetry and music tonight, as part of the House of O series hosted by Japanese restaurant Maison O on the Lower East Side, home to the “secret” basement club Stardust Lounge. The book includes 69 pages of collaborative work from the “gender-erasing pandrogyne” Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and late […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Eva Papamargariti – architecture and time-based media artist currently based in Greece — presents her digital video RandomAccessData, influenced by radical utopian groups of the ’60s, post-internet art theory, Isaac Asimov and “minimalist in a rapper’s body” Kanye West. The idea […]
Earlier today, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and the people who run Coney Island’s amusement park broke ground on the Thunderbolt, a brand new steel roller coaster being constructed to replace the wood one of the same name that operated for nearly six decades. It was decommissioned in 1982 and illegally torn down by then […]
