Month: December 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, artist New York-based artist Lisa Beck talks about Threshold, an outdoor sculpture that is “solid but also open,” inspired by passing. I was invited to make an outdoor sculpture for the exhibition called […]
After pretty much everyone mocked them, the president scolded them, and some even offered to screen the movie for them, it seems that Sony executives have backtracked from their original stance of having “no plans” to release The Interview. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Sony CEO Michael Lynton said, “We would still like the public […]
Following the tragic shooting of two NYPD officers by a suicidal, mentally ill man, state lawmakers are calling for funding to install bulletproof glass in all police cruisers. Four assembly members announced on Sunday that they are drafting legislation to use part of a $5.1 billion budget surplus to outfit squad cars in departments across […]
Amadom, Broadway – Myrtle. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The 13-year-old son of a NYPD cop who was killed along with his partner in Bed Stuy mourns his father on Faceook with a heartwrenching tribute. Video of police scrambling to save the two men has emerged. “All cops are not bad cops,” reads citizen graffiti that popped in the East Village last night. The […]
On Saturday, two NYPD cops were killed in Bed Stuy by a man who then took his own life with the same gun. At 2:47PM, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, walked up to the passenger side of a patrol car parked near near Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues, pulled out a silver Taurus handgun, and opened fire on […]
UPDATE: Two police officers were shot and killed in Bed Stuy and then the gunman killed himself. Did Poster Boy strike again? Subway ad remix, Ferguson edition (pictured above). There was lots of yelling during Friday’s dueling protests at City Hall. On the pro-police side, some demonstrations donned tees that read “I can breathe… because […]
Tiny Cloud by artist Richard Clarkson. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After a Brooklyn man turned himself in on Thursday for allegedly assaulting two cops during a mischievous Saturday evening protest on the Brooklyn Bridge, police arrested another person they were looking for earlier today reports ABC News. A search warrant was executed, but no other details were given. Police say that Robert Murray, 43, was […]
Even President Obama thinks that Sony “made a mistake” when the mega-corporation jumped to meet the bratty demands of a North Korean dictator and his minion hackers when it canceled the release of James Flacco/Seth Rogen comedy The Interview. While the best response would have been to release The Interview over the internet for free, […]
