Month: September 2014
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, newly Brooklyn-based artist Scott Gelber talks about his videos “Image 02” 003 and “Image 03” 004 inspired by skeuomorphism and the original “broken image icon.” The videos feature music by Zac Traeger and Arjun Ram Srivatsa. Lately, I’ve been thinking a […]
A photography balloon floated over the South Street Seaport this morning and according to the New York Post, it caused fears of a terror attack. The balloon turned out to be nothing more than a city contractor’s tool for surveying a future development near the old Fulton Fish Market. While the Post says that “sources” reported […]
According to an internal memo, the New York City Correction Department will stop putting 16- and 17-year-old inmates into solitary confinement by the end of 2014, the New York Times reports. There are currently 51 adolescents in solitary confinement at Rikers Island, where it is used as “a primary form of punishment” of teens. In the memo dated September 25th, the correction […]
Blogger and well-bankrolled racist Pamela Geller has decided to pull her latest hate-mongering anti-Islam MTA ads featuring journalist James Foley moments before he was beheaded. The $100,000 campaign was set to be launched this morning in New York and San Francisco. The ads feature a photo of a man suspected to be Foley’s executioner rapping into a microphone side-by-side the now infamous […]
Notorious narcotics detective Peter Valentin has been on modified duty since March, but the city is still paying his giant legal tab. As NYPD’s highest overtime earner who called himself “PistolPete” and “the King of the Bronx,” Valentin was sued 28 times since 2006, with an average settlement of $50,000. Since April, Valentin’s six settlements totaled $402,000. With […]
Syd, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti in the Boogie Down includes works from undisputed king, JA. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ANIMAL will be bringing you continuing coverage from The New York Film Festival which runs Sep 26 – Oct 12 at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Maps To The Stars plays Saturday, September 27th at 9:00pm and Sunday, September 28th on 3:00pm. Beyond its trappings as a grim Hollywood satire, David Cronenberg’s latest is about bad therapy. It begins with campy caricatures […]
As ANIMAL pointed out yesterday, it’s very possible that our distinguished mayor, Bill de Blasio committed rodenticide when he dropped New York City’s official groundhog, Chuck, on Groundhog’s Day. The story became even more sinister after it was revealed that the Staten Island Zoo had actually used an imposter groundhog, Chuck’s girlfriend Charlotte, because Chuck bit […]
Many dog owners let their pets piss willy-nilly on all sorts of things. For them, if it’s outside, it’s fair game. But after reading the New York Times piece about how canine urine makes sanitation workers’ job even harder (and volunteering to watch my cousin’s puggle), I found myself very conscious of what I did […]
