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February 26, 2014 Aymann Ismail

To celebrate the release of Yoav Litvin’s book “Outdoor Gallery,” the Brooklyn art exhibit featured works from more than 40 artists and included 3 collaborative murals and films from DEGA. “The book is my kind of document of my adventures in New York city,” Litvin tells ANIMAL. “I grew up here in the ’80s, so all the […]

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February 25, 2014 Aymann Ismail

As New Yorkers mourn and celebrate the late actor, director and writer Harold Ramis, some are visiting the “Ghostbusters firehouse” in TriBeCa to pay their respects. Aside from flowers and candles, they’ve been leaving some interesting oddities — Nestle Crunch Bars, Twinkies, fake petri dishes of “spores, mold and fungus” and other Ghostbusters inside joke-based tributes. See it […]

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February 21, 2014 Aymann Ismail

During a brief visit to New York, UK street artist Sweet Toof of the Burning Candy Crew got busy painting the town pink. He also collaborated with graffiti artist SMELLS. His signature gums and teeth and a few squiggly tags are all around Brooklyn — on the rooftops of Williamsburg, the freight trains benched at […]

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February 14, 2014 Aymann Ismail

The MTA recently unleashed their modern, interactive On the Go! kiosks at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal, as well as Bowling Green, Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center and Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave subway stops. The touchscreen kiosks look like 47-inch iPads and provide directions and subway schedules. I stopped by the newly installed kiosks at Grand Central and people seem to be somewhat […]

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February 13, 2014 Bucky Turco

London street artist and human letterpress Ben Eine returns to NYC to show new work at Judith Charles Gallery in Manhattan. “Heartfelt” consists of vibrant, intricately-adorned signature fonts and wordplay on canvasses. A crucial figure in the early emergence of street art in the UK, Eine has been successfully crafting his urban typography for well over two […]

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February 10, 2014 Aymann Ismail

“I’m willing to get a ticket or get arrested,” artist Serge Miquel told ANIMAL after finishing installing his unauthorized art show inside a Bank of America in NoHo on Friday. After taping up the abstract drawings in every window of the ATM-only branch, Miquel walked across the street and started working on a sculpture. He asked […]

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February 7, 2014 Aymann Ismail

As you may have heard, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is dead. Although the autopsy results are still inconclusive, it’s very likely that he died of a drug overdose. Since the first day that news broke of his untimely demise, fans have been flocking to his West Village apartment complex. I stopped by there this afternoon […]

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Bucky Turco

Like his other legal and illegal work around NY, artist Cassius Fouler brings a mix of cartoonism, expressionism, and graffiti-based text to address the themes of “life moment to moment, the flaws of starving artistry, gentrification, humility, decadence, anger, sadness, inebriation and peril.” See his work on view tomorrow at the Pandemic Gallery warehouse. “Painting […]

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January 20, 2014 Aymann Ismail

There’s only one thing worse than Times Square during New Year’s Eve, and that’s Times Square during this year’s Super Bowl. MetLife Stadium in New Jersey — where the so-called New York Giants and Jets play — will be hosting this year’s event featuring the Denver Broncos facing off against the Seattle Seahawks. But because […]

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January 3, 2014 Aymann Ismail

The salt pellets routinely used for melting snow on New York sidewalks and roads look really picturesque in macro. Before the storm hit last night, I documented the various crystals in action using the DSLR I hacked with the Pentax 25mm 1.4 TV lens that’s usually found in 1″ CCTV security cameras. See also: street food and garbage in macro. Stay […]

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