Month: January 2015
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Roycer, a native New Yorker whose signature “monsters” pepper the cityscape. In addition to promoting himself on the streets, Roycer is a curator and has organized exhibits featuring graffiti and street artists. Name/Alias: Royce Bannon, Roycer, Choice Royce. […]
Hope you had your fun in NYC’s streets while you could, because the NYPD slowdown may be coming to an end. On Monday, the NYPD released its most recent arrest and ticketing statistics, which revealed an uptick in activity. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who recently acknowledged the slowdown, said at a news conference, “We are […]
The trial of the alleged founder of the online black market, Silk Road, begins on Tuesday in Manhattan and it has already been an unusual case. Ross William Ulbricht, who the federal government claims also went by Dread Pirate Roberts, will face a string of charges in New York, but he is also being charged in […]
Sinclair, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A wheatpaste that combines two demonstrations — one by protesters and one by police — was still wet when this photographer snapped a photo of it in Bed Stuy. (Photo: A Tribe of Our Own) […]
Whether or not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would be built to transport oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to refineries and distribution centers in Texas and Illinois, is seen by many environmentalists as a definitive benchmark of whether the US is going to get serious about addressing climate change. Approval […]
The nightmare of 42nd street is far too large a beast to be tamed by any mortal architect, but the Vision42 project is at least trying to come up with some imaginative ways to make it a more hospitable place. Vision42 asked “architects, planners, and urban designers from around the world to develop creative proposals for […]
There’s a pop-up gallery in the Lower East Side filled with very expensive glass pipes that should delight drug dealers and rich kids alike, because let’s face it, who else is going to shell out thousands of dollars for a device from which to smoke weed? DNAinfo was first on the scene, but we had […]
The Twitter account of the U.S. Department of Defense’s US CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia, have apparently been hacked by a party either working for, or sympathetic with, the Islamic State, a.k.a. ISIS a.k.a. Da’esh. A slew of important looking documents — including scenarios about North […]
The next time you start complaining about the limitations of micro-size apartments in New York, take some inspiration from artist JeeYoung Lee and turn that place into a psycho wonderland. Lee is a Korea-based installation artist who spends months constructing elaborate environments in her modest studio. When she’s satisfied with the final product, she photographs […]
