Month: March 2014
Christie’s latest Jean-Michel Basquiat online auction has been stopped and officially “postponed” after two of the late artist’s sisters filed a $1 million lawsuit claiming that the collection of his ex-roommate/lover Alexis Adler could include fakes. We first interviewed Adler a year ago, in her now-remodeled former squat of an apartment that she shared with Basquiat in […]
“If you are not familiar with noise as an art form — it’s a different way of appreciating and creating sound, with a decidedly idiosyncratic hands-on approach, often leading to unique and profound results,” Bob Bellerue explains on the Ende Tymes IV Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation IndieGoGo campaign page. The venue/artist studio complex Silent Barn is hosting the third […]
If you thought Anya and Mar‘s Vladimir Putin My Ass Butt Plug was a funny concept, here is a real one by graphic designer Fernando Sosa in the [3D-printed] flesh. “What better way to attack Mr. Putin’s shirtless bear wrestling reputation?” At first, Sosa just wanted to highlight the Russian president’s vicious war against the civil rights of the LGBT. “Since […]
Last night, HBO Go crashed in the middle of too many people trying to legally watch the True Detective season finale, so some of you haven’t seen Rust and Marty ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ “L’chaim, fat-ass!” ▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ but then ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒ and ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ holy shit ▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ FUUUUUUUUUUCK ▒▒▒▒▒!!!!!!▒▒… wow. Let’s catch up. Designer and illustrator Nigel Evan Dennis created a beautiful True Detective tribute page featuring […]
Not everyone is cut out to sell drugs. Take Frank Giardina. The 49-year-old man was busted in his Queens apartment on Friday after making some of the dumbest mistakes humanity has ever witnessed: #1) He was blasting music, which normally isn’t too big a deal, except when there’s a drug-dealer-amount-of-narcotics on the premises. #2) When […]
Timmy, SCOPE Art Fair. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Patrick Jacobs’s magic peepshow constructions are back at the Armory Show. (Image: @J-no) […]
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 36°F NIGHT 28°F Logan Hicks’ “Love Never Saved Anything” special pop-up exhibition is on tonight. (6:30pm, Free, Manhattan) Screaming Females play an intimate show at Silent Barn tonight with Tuff Tits […]
Earlier today, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova tweeted: When I hear Lana Del Rey, I feel as if I’m back in the prison camp in the middle of clean up. #associations. Когда я слышу Лану дель рей, я чувствую себя в разгаре генеральной уборки в исправительном лагере. #ассоциации — Надя Толокно (@tolokno) March 7, 2014 Nadya Tolokonnikova […]
In time for art fair frenzy, Dis Magazine just put up a Tumblr/”infomercial” announcing an IRL pop-up shop in Manhattan that will be open for the next month. “Disown,” as their video describes it, offers “consumer products made by contemporary artists” including Ryan Trecartin, Jon Rafman, The Jogging and Hood By Air. The aesthetic /subtextual snark of the show should be familiar […]
