Month: September 2014
As galleries around the city become more expensive to maintain and more homogenized in what they show, one group is trying to think outside the box. Tonight at 7pm, “the Department of Urban Betterment” (TDUB) will be debuting their first dumpster-based gallery at 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. TDUB was co-founded by Joaquin Reyes and […]
In a video posted this morning on YouTube, hundreds of funny maniacs on BMX and mountain bikes ride through the streets, highways and tunnels of New York. Watch as the wheelie-popping convoy takes over the lanes of Harlem River Drive, triumphantly rides through Times Square and drops in on Occupy protestors, who join the riders in chanting “From Ferguson […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 78 °F LOW 60 °F In theaters: Hendrix biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side starring Andre 3000; Björk: Biophilia Live at IFC. Andrew Durbin’s “Mature Themes” book launch with readings Harry Burke and Juliana […]
Three NYFD veterans died of cancer on the same day this week. Daniel Heglund, Robert Leaver and Lt. Howard Bischoff each succumbed to bone cancer, leukemia and colon cancer respectively. They join a list of 92 first responders who have died from conditions sustained from their exposure to toxins on 9/11. There are also 67,000 people […]
“If there’s a Barbie doctor, a teacher and a police officer, why shouldn’t there be a Virgin of Luján Barbie?” say Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli. For their exhibit “Barbie, The Plastic Religion” opening in Buenos Aires on October 11th, the artists are fashioning 33 Barbie dolls after various Catholic saints and prominent mythological characters. Their series, which includes […]
Whatever career/job/income-generating hobby you have, it’s probably fair to say it would be harder if you had to wade through dog piss to do it. So why do some people think it’s ok to let their dog piss on the trash? After all, it’s someone’s job to pick that trash up and take it to […]
The NYPD is cracking down on people they believe are reselling Apple’s newest gadgets. After several days of waiting in line for the iPhone 6 release, a Chinese woman was apprehended by the cops near the Fifth Avenue Apple store. She tells the Daily News that the officers fabricated the story. Hui Lin, a 51-year-old […]
Albert, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Conor Harrington for the L.I.S.A. Project, Lower East Side. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Scientists have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet that is about the size of Neptune and located 120 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus. HAT-P-11b (we’re gonna call it HAT) is classified as an Exo-Neptune because of its similar size to Neptune but its biggest difference is that it’s very close to […]
