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Ari, Lower East Side. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
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One of Brad Pitt’s earliest, smallest roles was also one of his greatest: in the 1993 pop masterpiece True Romance, the actor took on the role of Floyd, a happy-go-lucky, long-haired stoner who got all of two scenes before accidentally tipping off the bad guys. Now, the artist Glen Baldridge has created a functional tribute to the […]
New York artist Molly Crabapple has been busy. Following the great success of her Kickstarter and her intensive research, she’s spent days and days and days in her studio, immaculately painting corrupt fatcats, worker mice, and feminine mascots of 2011’s biggest revolutions and crises — an android-like Anonymous, a towering Occupy dangling plastic police bracelets and modern feminist […]
Floating ominously inside the Apexart gallery is a massive, crinkly, mirrored balloon. It is a reconstructed version of NASA’s 1958 “Beacon Inflatable Satellite,” an early “sateloon” prototype that marked the beginnings of human space exploration. The Beacon was a preliminary model for Echo 1, a much larger version launched by NASA in 1960 that was […]
Created by the developers Pitch Interactive, this animated infographic plots every U.S. drone strike and all associated casualties. In just a few seconds, a flurry of strikes and deaths appear, beginning in 2004 and drastically upticking in 2008-2009, when Pervez Musharraf resigned as president of Pakistan and President Obama took office in the states. All […]
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 […]
This weekend, popular mythical creature Tilda Swinton re-performed her 1995 piece The Maybe at the MoMA, without making a press announcement. She slept quietly inside a glass, aquarium-like enclosure as visiting crowds swarmed outside. She has been talking about doing this at the MoMA since 2005, before Marina Abramović performed her three-month The Artist Is Present epic. She will be doing unannounced pop-up performances throughout the […]
For yet another artistic example of why Vine is the most exciting social media platform going, take a look at the music video for Masters in France’s “Flexin,” which automatically populates itself with clips based tagged with words from the song’s lyrics. If a verse includes the word “high,” for example, and you once Vined […]
The NYPD has created a new facial recognition unit, which specializes in identifying subjects using photographs, according to a DNAinfo report. Established late last year, the eight-officer unit uses software to scan for faces in Facebook, Instagram, and surveillance camera images, then match them against the mugshots of known criminals. Thankfully, a facial match doesn’t […]
