Month: January 2015
“Body Anxiety” might not #BreakTheInternet, but it is sure to spark a conversation about appropriation, the female body, gender norms, and sexism on the internet. The forthcoming exhibit by net artists Jennifer Chan and Leah Schrager (who you may recall as the Naked Therapist) opens exclusively online, featuring artwork by the likes of Kate Durbin, […]
If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? Ghost … Ark? That’s the name of a new Italian company that claims to be developing the ultimate ghost hunting device. The founder Massimo Rossi is working with his son and a team of Japanese-trained robotics engineers to make paranormal investigation available to everyone. Rossi claims […]
First they tried to take our Kinder, now they want our Cadbury Creme Eggs. Due to a lawsuit filed by Hershey’s against the original U.K.-based creme egg chocolate manufacturer Cadbury, imports of products from the company are currently on hold. Hershey’s claims that some products by Cadbury are too similar to it’s own. According to DNAinfo: […]
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has published its annual report on skyscrapers, finding that 2014 was a record-building year with 97 new monolithic structures popping up across the world. China led the way with a whopping 58 completions. The United States put up 3 skyscrapers, all in New York City. One WTC […]
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 43°F LOW 28°F In Theaters: Xavier Dolan’s award-winning Mommy. Pretty much everything else opening looks awful. Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts at IFC through the 29th. (7:45pm, $14, […]
For nearly two decades, the pixel-world building collective known as eBoy has been rendering cities in their unmistakable 8-bit style. After transforming New York (pictured above), Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, and London into what the graphics trio calls Pixoramas, they are hoping to tackle San Francisco next “A San Francisco Pixorama pixel poster has been on […]
A report by the New York State Commission of Correction has urged the Justice Department to investigate possible civil rights violations in the death of a Rikers inmate, which resulted from “gross incompetence,” reports the New York Times. It is the latest damning report in a series that have, over the past six months, detailed […]
NYPD arrested a young teen in Brooklyn on Thursday in what has to be landmark case — he is accused of making threats against police via emoji. Osiris Aristy, 17, posted a series of emojis on his Facebook back in December that featured a cop with two guns pointed at it’s head and according to a criminal […]
Ernie, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ZEXOR vs everybody — including VERS — at Bushwick Collective. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
