Month: April 2014
On Tuesday, Bonhams New York is hosting an auction of “space history” items, including an Apollo 11 Mission Patch, an American flag that almost made it to the moon, and a casting of Buzz Aldrin’s boot. If you’ve got a couple thousand dollars to spare, you could do worse than this signed Apollo 10 Snoopy toy. […]
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 44° F NIGHT 42° F Out this weekend: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Scarlet Johansson as a succubus alien in Under the Skin, a new Errol Morris doc with Donald Rumsfeld The Unknown Known and Vol. […]
According to CBS, the once anonymous street artist who goes by the name Judith Supine surrendered to police earlier today, accompanied by his lawyer. The work that he gratuitously puts on the street had nothing to do with it. Identified as Brendan Fagan, he’s facing reckless endangerment and trespass charges for allegedly scaling the Queensborough Bridge. […]
This series of illustrations from Kurt McRobert catalogs the archetypal bike riders of NYC: there’s the Messenger, the Citibike, the Fixie Kid, and a slew of others. My favorite stereotype is the Journeyman, a “middle-aged cyclist with something to prove,” in spandex that’s color-coordinated with his $5,000 race road bike — aka the guy who’s […]
We loved the Mike Kelley retrospective at MoMA PS1 last year, and now that it’s moved to MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles, it appears that we’ve missed out on one dirty detail. This is Mike Kelley’s Chinatown Wishing Well. Carolina Miranda writes: It’s a lot to absorb. But while you’re at it, don’t forget to take a peek under and […]
The artist Edie Fake is, in his own words, a “buildings nerd.” His latest book, Memory Palaces, which collects 16 vibrantly patterned drawings that reimagine lost queer spaces in Chicago, debuts at this weekend’s MoCCA Arts Fest at the 69th Regiment Armory. “When I first moved back to Chicago a few years ago,” Fake recalls, […]
Welcome to the summer of Scarlett. Here’s a trailer for Lucy, a new film from Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element). Scarlett is a forced drug mule, a bag of drugs surgically implanted inside her, a bag that’s leaking and for some reason is causing her to have superhuman powers. She’s a […]
The Bowery station for the J/Z lines has been open for over a century, but since about 2004, a ghost-like set of platforms and tracks have been completely shuttered to the public. When graffiti started accumulating, the area was cordoned off with plywood, killing the chances of seeing even a glimpse of what was going […]
Opioid ODs now kill more people than car crashes. That’s a death around every half hour. In this epidemic, this public health disaster of our own creation, you can see why the FDA fast-tracked this new drug packaging. Naloxone or Narcan, is a powerful opioid antagonist. It runs to your brain, rips the fun out, […]
What will become of Beastie Boys Square? The plan to rename the corner of Ludlow and Rivington Streets, the site of the Paul’s Boutique cover, in the group’s honor has seen its share of ups and downs, and recently it appeared that it might be done for good. Now, Mark Levine, chairman of City Council’s Parks and Recreation […]
