Category: Features
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Keep your eye on the Prettiots, because before you know it, they’re going […]
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 […]
Murdock, Bed Stuy. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
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 […]
Jamarco, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
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 […]
Morpheus, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Friend Roulette is an enigmatic weed-fueled chamber pop outfit from Brooklyn. They have […]
Pantelis, Harlem. (Photo: alexhasapis) […]
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 […]
