Month: January 2015
The neverending battle between graffiti and street art continues. This round: GOOG vs. André. Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The meltdown of Chernobyl was not a good thing, but nearly three decades after the catastrophic disaster, it seems to have left behind some beauty too. Apart from the human tragedy, mutated animals, and radioactive wasteland it created, the site of the world’s largest nuclear accident and surrounding areas, provide ruin porn of the highest […]
Snapchat is coming out with a webseries. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that the daughters of film director Steven Spielberg and producer John Goldwyn will write and star in a show called — wait for it — Literally Can’t Even. It will be a comedic take on the lives writing partners Sasha Spielberg (coming off […]
In his new exhibition, “No There There,” Jamie Zigelbaum explores the spaces that simultaneously exist and do not exist. The title of the show comes from a Gertrude Stein quote about visiting her childhood home as an adult. Some took her comment that “there is no there there” in Oakland, California as a kind of […]
Though Afghan weavers have been creating “war rugs” or “war carpets” for decades, it’s nonetheless disquieting to see modern warfare like drones creep into their designs; a sobering affirmation to the rest of the world that the damaged inflicted by the stealth technology has become commonplace in that region of the world. A recent article […]
Eco Experts wants you to go green, so the organization’s fine staff made an infographic to keep you informed about how likely you are to be destroyed by climate change. Using data from the Notre Dame Global Adaptation (ND-Gain) Index, this helpful map explains the likelihood of surviving climate change for every country in the world. How does the […]
On Friday, the Museum of The Moving Image begins a new 17-film retrospective on famed cinematographer Gordon Willis, the Astoria native who created the look for some of the most iconic films of the 1970s. Willis passed last May due to cancer. Speaking to ANIMAL about the retrospective, a part of the Museum’s “See it […]
Arrests for the possession or small amounts of weed in New York City continue to decline sharply and it’s not because the NYPD is engaged in another slowdown — it’s because they’re finally following the law. Here’s some background: In 1977, weed was decriminalized in New York. According to the state law, possession of 25 […]
The NYPD and animal welfare has seized 105 more bunnies from a Gowanus yard after discovering that other bunnies from the yard have STDs, ear mites, and wounds from fighting each other. Around 20 officers raided Dorota Trec’s property on Monday after receiving numerous 911 complaints that the bunnies were outside ahead of the blizzard. […]
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 37°F LOW 12°F In Theaters: New Russian sci-fi masterpiece Hard To Be A God (highly recommended) and Cannes favorite about radical Islam, Timbuktu. Lost Boy?, Infinity Girl, Pinegrove, […]
