Category: Art
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 […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile MRtoll. Name/Alias: MRtoll Decade you were born in: ’70s City you currently live: I live between Brooklyn and L.A. My child lives in Brooklyn and my partner (Paola Baldion) is based in Hollywood. I am walking a fine […]
While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday morning. The group, which allowed ANIMAL to exclusively document the installation on the condition that we hide their identities, hauled the 100-pound sculpture into Fort Greene Park and up its hilly terrain […]
On April 3, the Brooklyn Museum is launching a new exhibition called Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, the first-ever large exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s notebooks. The exhibition displays the contents of eight notebooks the late artist, used between 1980 and 1987. The black composition books are filled with Basquiat’s poetry, drawings, shopping lists and linguistic fragments […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Greg Heffernan, a.k.a. Cosmo D, about Off-Peak, a curated glimpse into one artist’s mind. Greg Heffernan is, first and foremost, a musician. He performs and […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Bishop. Name/Alias: Bishop203 (JAT1) Decade you were born in: ’70s City you currently live: Brooklyn Drugs or natural highs? I have a beer belly….. How did you get your name? I have had Bishop as a nickname since […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Vincent Morisset of Montreal studio AATOAA and Hugues Sweeney of the National Film Board of Canada about Way to Go, a game that suggests you […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Damien Mitchell. Name/Alias: Damien Mitchell Decade you were born in: ’80s City you currently live: Brooklyn Drugs or natural highs? You buyin’, I’m tryin’ How did you get your name? It’s a clever anagram of my real name: […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artists Shane + Kevin talk about their series Have you seen Mr. Brown?, animated gifs created by hand-cut, halftone analogue screens. The profits will go to the family of Mike Brown. As artists, […]
ANIMAL showcases a different street artist regularly in our feature, Scratching the Surface. This week, we profile Danielle Mastrion. Name/Alias: Danielle Mastrion Decade you were born in: ’80s baby — but early ’80s. I was six when I saw Michael Jackson on the BAD tour, just to give you an idea. City you currently live: […]
