Month: April 2015
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Cake. Name/Alias: Jennifer Caviola, aka Cake. Decade you were born in: ’70s. City you currently live: For the past two years I have been rotating between Brooklyn, Berlin and Connecticut. Drugs or natural highs? Whatever natural high sobriety […]
Tree cover is important to the health of a neighborhood. But what if there’s so much (artificial) tree cover that the real trees aren’t visible and not enough sunlight reaches the ground? That’s the concern of many regular visitors to Madison Square Park, where a new overhead installation is being called too big and too […]
The 100-pound Edward Snowden bust that was illegally placed in Fort Greene Park by a group of guerrilla artists on April 6th has been sitting in the NYPD’s 88th Precinct since it was confiscated, just hours after installation. Now, a group of activists are calling on the city to return the statue to the people […]
On Friday, the Observer’s Ryan Steadman wondered, “is Biggie Smalls becoming New York’s street art saint?” That question has a two-part answer: Biggie was canonized long ago, and he’s moved from icon into exhausted cliche. The city’s newest Biggie mural is on a roll-down gate at the Musket Room, a restaurant in Nolita. The mural, […]
Valentino, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Call Now!!” New ad takeover by graffiti artists CASH4 and SMELLS promises to “make you money, money, money, money, lots of fucking money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money.” (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
No Red Tape Columbia, the activist organization devoted to ending sexual violence on Columbia University’s campus, projected the phrases “Rape happens here” and “Columbia protects rapists” onto Low Library during a visiting weekend for prospective students. The Columbia Spectator reports: “It was all so unreal,” Evan Caplinger, a prospective student, said. “It was the juxtaposition […]
CityLab reported on the results of an interesting study that found a correlation between urban tree canopy (UTC), which is roughly the density of trees in a neighborhood, and neighborhood median income. The study, published in the journal PLOS One and led by Kirsten Schwarz, assistant professor of biology at Northern Kentucky University, compared high-resolution […]
Over the weekend, a group of activists made history by holding the world’s first-ever hologram protest in Spain. The virtual protest was devised by No Somos Delito (translation: We Are Not Crime), who projected a hologram in front of parliament to protest a law that, in part, bans protest in front of parliament. According to […]
Game of Thrones just premiered, but who gives a shit about White Walkers fighting each other with katanas or whatever when this kind of wild-ass street brawl is happening in the West Village? Like, this is the real-life version of the battle at The Wall, only instead of giants and woolly mammoths charging in at […]
