Category: Features
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Greg Leuch talks about WhatColor.IsTheInter.net, presented with support from Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. It sounds cliché, but WhatColor.IsTheInter.net began in the shower sometime in mid-November 2012. I forget exactly what triggered the thought process, but I remember pondering how would […]
Recently, President Obama said something that we all knew was true despite decades of government propaganda and politicians claiming otherwise: namely that alcohol, a legal substance that’s widely available, is more dangerous than weed. Getting the Office of National Drug Control Policy to admit the same was a much harder prospect. (ANIMAL cut a 15 […]
Yesterday, it took ANIMAL 0.672 seconds to identify Molly Soda, aka the “anonymous” artist whose nudes, self-portraits and snap-shots were going to be displayed in a small Chicago gallery on February 8th without her consent or knowledge. Soda threw them out in a plastic bag years ago when relocating to Detroit. A stranger found them and somehow, […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Los Angeles-based Zak Smith shows us his sketchbook to painting process. These are the same people in my sketchbook. I wanted to make a painting that was more aggressive than these… …–that confronted you with people who looked like they were […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 38°F NIGHT 31°F The Brooklyn-via-Boston Berfest celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Silent Barn with Grass Is Green, Baked, and others. ($8, 8pm, Brooklyn) Pictureplane is DJing at the Flat for […]
ANIMAL’s Game Plan feature 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 Kent Hudson of one-man studio Orthogonal Games about The Novelist, a thoughtful game in which players must find a balance between one character’s career and his […]
Here’s something you did not expect to be listening to on January 28th, 2014: three brand new songs featuring Elliott Smith singing over synths and four-on-the-floor dance rhythms. Lo and behold, here we are. The songs, dubbed “The Record,” “Dogs,” and “Burn (Aah Fuck),” use vocals Smith recorded with Mike Doughty of the band Soul […]
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from the Brooklyn psych/folk/rock Woods, who compiled a playlist heavy on live cuts and television appearances. Highlights: garage rock legends The Seeds playing “Pushin’ Too Hard” on a 1968 […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn-based artist Yao Xiao talks about making the official cover art for Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” single. Initially, the very first line about the piece was in an email I received one evening last month — just a simple […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 19°F NIGHT 14°F Larry Clark’s 71st birthday party is tonight at Baby’s All Right, if you’re into that sort of thing. (8pm, Brooklyn, free) Get your noise on with Prurient […]
