Month: August 2014
Those deformed figures you drew as a small child may have slightly predicted your future intelligence, according to a new study from King’s College. For the experiment, researchers instructed 7,752 pairs of identical and fraternal twins to draw a child. They rated the drawings from 0 to 12. Drawings with more features like limbs and facial characteristics received a […]
ANIMAL’s Radicals Of Retrofuturism uncovers stories by the technological rebels of the past in vintage media and looks at their predictions in the context of today’s digital world. This week we discuss rapidly approaching telepathic technology, and how it could aid or hinder human communication. A few weeks ago, we delved into the world of Radical Software, an experimental […]
The iconic Upper East Side dive bar Subway Inn was granted a restraining order just days before their planned eviction. The bar was opened just after prohibition ended. On their Facebook page, the bar thanked the people of New York for this temporary halt. “On behalf of entire Salinas family, we cannot express the immense […]
The New York Times reports that Jabbar Collins, who spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly accused of murder, has settled with the city for $10 million. He was convicted in 1994 of killing an Orthodox rabbi under district attorney Charles J. Hynes. Collins’ lawyer Joel B. Rubin found that Hynes used dubious practices in his original […]
Marolda Properties is being subpoenaed by the Division of Housing’s Tenant Protection Unit for repeated “abusive behavior” targeting Asian-American and Chinese-speaking tenants. The company recently purchased several large buildings in aggressively gentrifying Chinatown and according to the Daily News, their landlord is trying to force tenants out of rent-controlled apartments by “withholding basic services, refusing to renew leases as required by law and starting baseless eviction […]
In three instances where inmates on Rikers Island were beat to death, none of the guards responsible are facing criminal charges reports the AP. The families of victims Angel Ramirez, Clarence Mobley and Ronald Spear have all sued the prison and two have settled, but it’s proven almost impossible to charge correctional officers criminally, according to lawyers […]
Sasha, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
New York still loves Domino Sugar Factory. (Photo: @gothamr) […]
A recent demonstration in Philadelphia highlighted the divided views of the current crisis in Ferguson, MO for Americans of different backgrounds. Actor Keith Wallace and friends leveraged an iconic landmark and tourist destination – Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculpture – to force a public confrontation with uncomfortable realities of racism in America. ArtNet’s Ben Davis described the scene: For more […]
Artist Alex McLeod new series of digital work goes on view at Montreal’s Galerie Trois Points next month. “They are all interior spaces, but I treated them like they were bodies, using things like clouds staircases and gems to stand in for organs,” McLeod tells ANIMAL. See the work above, featuring intestine-like structures in crystalline textures and interior landscapes […]
