Month: March 2014
A box truck door emblazoned with the phrase “The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet,” from Banksy’s monthlong Better Out Than In NYC residency is selling for $400,000 at SCOPE. First reported by Brooklyn Street Art, we reached out to ArtNowNY, the gallery representing the seller, for more details. Joseph Gross, the owner of […]
Emma Duvoll is luckier than you. The 75-year-old Bronx woman won $2 million in on Powerball this weekend, playing the numbers she found in a fortune cookie. “I was surprised, but pleased,” she told ABC. “I took some time contemplating what I will do with the money. I plan to invest most of it and maybe take […]
CYCLE is a graffiti writer’s writer. He started his illicit career in 1989 and since has mastered the art of tags, throw-ups and pieces. He hit clean subway trains in the ’90s, painted freight trains thereafter and bombed alongside the best and most-renowned writers in the world. “About eight years ago, after a series of […]
The art fairs are upon us! Follow ANIMAL as we stumble strategically through most of most of them. Next up, The Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, a favorite. That gyrating form above is a low-res gif version of Rollin Leonard’s new video installation. Now imagine looking down at it in 4K Ultra High-definition. To create the moving image, Leonard built […]
Hot on the heels of the Bob Dylan map that dropped last year, here’s a Tom Waits map, marking the mentioned in the majestic weirdo’s work. New York gets a lot of love, with shout-outs in “Clap Hands,” “Fish in the Jailhouse,” “Downtown Train,” and of course, “Coney Island Baby,” among others. A quick perusal reveals […]
The legislative council of our nation’s capital passed a bill to decriminalize possession of weed with a 10-1 vote this week, and DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray has said that he’ll sign the legislation into law when it comes across his desk. That means possession of up to an ounce of cannabis will be punishable […]
Until this week, a Spider-Man action figure and a dildo hung over a power line at the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street in Williamsburg. The Daily News, with quotes from “disgusted” New Yorkers, reports that it was mysteriously removed yesterday. However, with its readers’ delicate sensibilities in mind, the paper blurred out the work’s […]
Greenpointers, beware: busloads of midwesterner Girls fans may soon be swarming your neighborhood, jumping at the chance to see Hannah Horvath and crew’s homes, hangouts, and places of work. On Locations Tours, the company that brought you the Sex and the City sight-seeing trips, is planning a similar tour centered around Lena Dunham’s most famous creation. Destinations include Café […]
Jimi, Morris Park. (Photo: @Abian Sacks) […]
Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the two members of Pussy Riot who were recently whipped by Cossack cavemen at an Olympic protest they were holding 20 miles from Sochi, got assailed again, this time in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. According to the Guardian, the human rights activists were there to look into the […]
