Month: August 2014
“Not Nothing,” a new book on artist Ray Johnson — friend to Andy Warhol, John Cage and others — expands the context for his under-appreciated work. Johnson was a man of many mediums — collage, performance art and “mail art.” (Image Courtesy Siglio Press) Johnson had started the New York Correspondance School and held meetings for fellow mail artists, whose interactive […]
In Florida, Pedro Bravo is standing trial for the murder of former friend Christian Aguilar, who had started dating his ex-girlfriend. After missing for weeks, his body was found buried in a shallow grave in Levy Country. According to the Gainesville Sun and Palm Beach Report, on September 20, 2012 — the day the victim disappeared — the accused told iPhone’s Siri “I need to […]
The ever changing legal walls on Siegel and White Streets — along the often disputed borders of Bushwick and Williamsburg in Brooklyn — have undergone another round of painting, featuring elaborate new burners by graffiti artists VOR, SEBS, EWOK, GIZ, DUEL, and LOGEK, among others. This latest round of work was sponsored by Evolve spray […]
From the data enthusiast who brought you Brighton Beach’s penchant for massage therapy and the worst times for NY traffic (basically, all the times), here is I Quant NY‘s Ben Wellington preparing to try out a Citi Bike — in the safest way possible, utilizing the company’s system data and the city’s vehicle/bicycle collision information. I decided to crunch some numbers […]
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 look at Wendy Carlos’ letter to the Whole Earth Catalog. In 1971, Grammy Award winning composer and electronic music vanguard Wendy Carlos wrote a humorous and convoluted […]
According to a new report by the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC), New York City is not as expensive as everyone says, relatively speaking. Sure, rent prices are out of control, but it’s actually one of the country’s affordable major cities for a typical household — all because of our awesome public transportation system! “The report uses a […]
Cyclists beware! Starting today through August 26th, the New York Police Department is launching Operation Safe Cycle. For two weeks, bike and pedestrian safety is “priority.” The AP reports that cops will be targeting those engaged in “disobeying traffic signals and signs; riding against traffic; riding on the sidewalk; and failure to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.” […]
Miriam Moskowitz, a 98-year-old woman who was wrongly accused of being a spy more than 60 years ago, has filed papers in Manhattan Federal Court to dismiss the conviction, the Daily News reports. The brief asks “to correct a miscarriage of justice from the McCarthy era, of which Ms. Moskowitz is perhaps the last living victim.” Moskowitz was arrested in […]
Lloyd, Washington Square Park. (Photo: @Phil Roeder) […]
An arts advocacy group organized a press conference in front of City Hall earlier today that included subway dancers calling on the NYPD to stop arresting them. (Photo: Amy K. Nelson/ANIMAL New York) […]
