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. This week, we have JUNO-nominated “doom soul” singer-songwriter Cold Specks, who selected music from artists as wide-ranging as Nick Cave, Portishead, and ’90s Canadian alt-rockers The Inbreds. Click the big play button above […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Alexandra Gorczynski shows us the process behind her piece Aurora at the TRANSFER gallery’s inaugural show. Process GIF: Process USTREAM PART 1 USTREAM PART 2 “A bit blurry about how long it took, but I think maybe 2.5 days/nights. […]
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 […]
“I wanted to create a game that touched infinity,” Jonathan Minard explains. We’re in the dark lower level of 319 Scholes at the opening Art Hack Day: God Mode. To his right, bio-glitch artists in lab-coats explain How to be Anonymous in the Age of the DNA Surveillance. Behind him, visitors wave their arms, commanding mountains to morph […]
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 […]
Hey, Dinos. Didn’t you promise the sounds of “a naked mole-rat plucked untimely from its snuggly basement-burrow, on its back, all squirmy, exposed to the sun’s dissecting rays” with “the industrial pulse of T/G, wilful experimentation of Stockhausen and impish playfulness of Squarepusher, but sounds like none of them.” It sounds like none of them. […]
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 […]
