Category: Art
After schooling New Yorkers on etiquette via numerous unsanctioned interventions, artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations. He then […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, we’re talking to Brooklyn-based painter Christian Rex van Minnen whose immaculate portraits and tableaux are a perfect mix of visual opulence and pretty horror. Today, he shows us the inspiration and process behind RED & GREEN. This painting was started […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Organ Armani explains his meta, Facebook-centric, short-term-nostalgia-heavy Gallery Online project — specifically “No Net Today, My Love Has Gone Away.” i’ve been doing a lot of reading. on facebook. on my phone. i started out my current project from […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist and performer Actually Huzienga talks about her $400 video for “Super Future,” shooting at the Cheetahs strip club and her aesthetic-specific mood boards. When I write a song, I like to visualize a fantasy… usually my […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Cody Critcheloe shows us his sketches for SSION’s new music video “HIGH.” The video was written and directed by Critcheloe and shot in his native Kansas City, conceptualized as “an Americanized Dante’s Inferno.” Come in. Go from […]
Established Seattle artist Charles Krafft has been quite successful in the controversial-kitschy ceramics genre. His work has been widely exhibited, collected and Tumblr’ed. He collaborated with Mike Leavitt on Pitchfork Pals — a series of Hitler, Manson and Kim Jong Il teapots. Very popular stuff. Oh, and he’s a bit of a white supremacist. Seattle’s The Stranger refers to some Facebook […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Man Bartlett talks about 24-hour project #BestNonBuy. A few years ago I spent 24 hours in a Best Buy shopping but not buying anything. I tweeted the whole thing while taking suggestions from people following the hashtag […]
Here’s a page from William S. Burroughs scrapbook — the 20th century artists’ proto-Tumblr, a diary-like collection of notes, quotes, news clippings, snapshots and other ephemera that eventually forms the inspiration for definitive work. A collaboration with Brion Gysin, Burroughs’ book features early iterations of the “cut-up technique,” later popularized in sections of his loopy […]
ANIMAL’s original series I Should Have Shot That! asks photographers about that one shot that got away. This week, Brendan McInerney talks about a moment in Moldovian hospice care he just couldn’t shoot. I’m in a town called Taraclia in Moldova of the former USSR. I’m currently an English teacher. It’s alright. It pays the bills. I live in […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Elizabeth Valleau shows us the inspirations for her stereoscopic 3D portraits created for a private booth. The piece itself is a series of stereoscopic 3D portraits of these archetype explorations. The subjects hold very still and engage with the […]
