Month: April 2014
Bruce, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Try pole dancing on this E train. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
As part of the one-night show “Proof of Work” and in collaboration with the digital user-friendly art-making platform New Hive, Alexandra Gorczynski, Labanna Babalon and Molly Soda will be projecting a series of multi-media art works tonight in San Francisco. The three-artist “Beautiful Life” series responds to the “fictional dichotomy” of gender, projecting the notions of “masculine/civilized and […]
Here’s the trailer for ‘The Search for General Tso,’ a documentary that looks at Chinese food in America through our country’s favorite dish. Shockingly, it sounds like the American interpretation of General Tso’s isn’t exactly faithful to the original. The film is screening at Chelsea Cinemas on 23rd Street tonight as part of the Tribeca […]
Charity Water, a legit non-profit organization committed to “bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations” is “no longer in possession” of the $35,000 donated to them by sticker-bombing con artist BNE, Charity Water spokesman Paull Young tells ANIMAL. BNE raised the money last month by claiming to sell a collaborative tee with […]
Earlier this month, when George W. Bush premiered his portraits of world leaders, we found and cited the sources for nearly all of his paintings. It was really easy, because they were taken directly from the subjects’ first Google image search results and Wikipedia entries. With the help of appropriation expert Greg Allen (who was the first to spot GWB’s Google trail), we […]
The seminal ’90s band Slint, whose second album Spiderland nearly single-handedly spawned the genre we now know as post-rock, are back at it. They’re playing a few NYC shows next month, and recently reissued Spiderland along with Breadcrumb Trail, a documentary about the band by the director Lance Bangs. May 1, the Wythe Hotel is holding a screening of the film […]
36 ventilators, 4.7m3 packing chips, a new installation from the Swiss artist Zimoun, does what it says on the tin. The artist filled a space inside Switzerland’s Museo d’Arte di Lugano with lots and lots of polystyrene packing peanuts, and uses 36 fans to whip them into a stormy frenzy. The installation fits nicely into Zimoun’s body […]
Takashi Murakami’s Jellyfish Eyes trailer premiered on Vanity Fair yesterday. The artist’s first live-action feature-length film is a mix of Pokémon, ET, sci-fi conspiracy and elementary school-aged children being weirdos. It features several Murakami-stylized magical creatures. The mood is reminiscent of Murakami’s Inochi-Kun! shorts but less about the horrors of approaching puberty. Oh, wait, never mind, this kid just conjured […]
Earlier this week the Ukrainian government released photographic evidence linking the organized, suspiciously well-armed “pro-Russian” _________ leading insurgencies in the country’s eastern industrial cities to Russian military forces and “sabotage-reconnaissance” groups. The photos have been heavily scrutinized, and not for nothing — one of the misattributed images appears to be lifted right off of Maxim […]
