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April 29, 2013 Bucky Turco

The East Village has been on fire lately, but not in a good way. Each week, it seems like something new is engulfed in flames. On April 8th it was cars. A little over a week later, an apartment in a high rise building caught fire resulting in a fatality. Four days after that, a […]

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April 26, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

In collaboration with the New Museum Ideas City Festival, gallery nine5 will host “Surge Protection,” a solo exhibition from Pop Realist Steve Ellis. Inspired by “renewable energy sources” and education through art, Ellis’ new paintings have a somewhat dystopian feel, depicting urban fables through “ripped magazines, disposable lighters, nesting birds, and a broken snow globe.” The […]

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Joseph Schulhoff

The Style Management Taxi Company in Hell’s Kitchen is the lucky recipient of two of the six shiny new all-electric Nissan Leafs that are being interjected into the city’s taxi fleet. The pilot program is the latest attempt by the Taxi and Limousine Commission to put more fuel efficient cabs on the streets. “It’s exciting […]

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Aymann Ismail

This week has been a busy one for ANIMAL, so I had to shoot something quick and dirty for this week’s “Zoom In.” With the help of the same hacked lens that I used to shoot street food and Times Square, here are a few macro-photos of things I found in the garbage can outside our […]

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Kyle Chayka

The Jogging’s group show at the commercial printing space Baboo may have seemed like a joke at first, but instead it serves as proof that some artists are able to make smart work under any circumstances. The Jogging is a loose group of contemporary artists including Brad Troemel — a collective that brought us vacuum sealed JAMES FRANCO […]

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Marina Galperina

Isn’t 3D-printing nifty as hell? Soon, we’ll be 3D-printing on the atomic level. Artist Shane Hope foreshadows hacking organic matter with his series “Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs,” “Qubit-Built Quilts,” “Post-Scarcity Percept-Pus Portraits” and “Scriptable-Scalable Species-Tool-Beings.” Using molecular modeling research software, crafts custom code and algorithms, Hope creaties sculptural canvases of erupted, scrambled, bubbling atomic structures. Some look like tumorous day-glo Rothkos. A standout: The bursting Malevich square-type. […]

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April 19, 2013 Aymann Ismail

Morgan Freeman acting repertoire is so long, he’s been everybody by now. And now, he wants to be your friend. Or, at least, this Madame Tussauds’ wax Morgan is cool with you pretending that you’re buds. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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April 15, 2013 Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, street artists The Yok and Sheryo give us a behind-the-scenes look into their new piece at 5 Pointz. The idea was inspired by our recent travels through Asia. The wall is part of a new body of […]

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April 10, 2013 Marina Galperina

You know what this is. You know. Here’s a beautiful little Tumblr tribute to that special social network that makes some of your friends say “BRB!” and return 30 minutes later because he found a friend in the building. (True story.) Behold: Grindr Illustrated. Self-explanatory. Hello, boys. […]

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April 5, 2013 Aymann Ismail

Who wants to see what a $1,900,000 Bugatti looks like? If you’re mystified at how someone can own a car in New York City, these photos from inside the Javits Center aren’t going to help. Check out New York International Auto Show’s shiniest. Vroom. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the […]

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