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September 9, 2014 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, New York-based choreographer, performance artist and rising star Rebecca Patek talks about “ineter(a)nal f/ear” — her theater performance which exposes the psychopathology of rape, trauma and shame with parody and satire, as Patek and her co-performer Sam […]

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Sophie Weiner

“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. Veteran indie rocker, photographer, actress and artist Melissa Auf Der Maur has earned her title […]

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Aymann Ismail

Kendrick, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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September 8, 2014 Marina Galperina

From Lacplesis Technology, here is LT-ML002 — “a pirated music legislation software.” Just insert a portable USB media device, and LT-ML002 will locate all you mp3s, cut them up and rearrange them. “You get sounds of your favorite songs in new unique compositions,” no copyright infringement intended! Like this: Lacplesis Technology (Andris Vetra and Artis Kupriss in collaboration with programmer Viesturs Kavacs) explains, in an […]

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Backdoor Pharmacist

Opponents of cannabis legalization are turning to academics with impressive resumes and titles to push the line that cannabis — the drug with not a single known case of deadly overdose — is unsafe and dangerous. Vice has dug into the open secret of conflict of interest and financial disclosures and found that many of […]

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Bucky Turco

Finley, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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September 5, 2014 Bucky Turco

Jordan, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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September 4, 2014 Rhett Jones

Aphex Twin dropped his first new track in 13 years on YouTube today. You can listen below. Maybe more notably than anything it features a lot of vocals, which is kind of rare for him. If they are actual words, they’re mangled or unintelligible. This comes on the heels of his launching a blimp over London […]

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Rhett Jones

Jonas Lund‘s exhibit “Studio Practice” opens in Amsterdam this week, but none of the work is “finished” yet. Instead of making a bunch of stuff and hanging it in a clean white cube, Lund has hired other artists to follow his 300-page guidebook. They’re making objects in the gallery under constant live-streaming surveillance. As each work is completed, a respected fourteen-person panel […]

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Michael Rougeau

ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video 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 Ubisoft Montpellier’s Paul Tumelaire and Yoan Fanise about Valiant Hearts: The Great War, an honest game about World War I. Valiant Hearts: The Great […]

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