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March 4, 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, 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 […]

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Andy Cush

For all the fun of flipping through dollar bin records without having to haul your ass to a Salvation Army, take a look at Rdio Obscurities, a Tumblr (and Twitter account) that highlights the oddest, most offbeat stuff the titular music streaming service has to offer. There’s Tell Your Cat You’re Pregnant, an “essential guide for cat […]

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Samer Kalaf

The Square is a documentary on the protests, police violence and the reactionary revolution in Egypt, centered around Tahrir Square in Cairo. See the brutality, the attempts at oppression by destroying cameras belonging to news outlets, and the bravery of the citizens documenting this uprising by sending out raw, unedited video out to media outlets outside […]

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Andy Cush

What if physical objects were subjected to the same arbitrary usage limits that certain distributors have forced upon perfectly legal, paid-for digital media? That’s the question posed by the DRM Chair (that’s digital rights management to you), a piece of furniture that falls apart in majestic fashion after its internal counter has detected eight uses. […]

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Andy Cush

The new face of Williamsburg’s iconic, abandoned Domino Sugar Factory has been revealed. Two Trees Management, which bought the property for $160 million last year, enlisted Barclays Center masterminds ShoP Architects to helm the project’s design, and the result is remarkable and sure to be polarizing: there’s a giant “O” -shaped high-rise that reportedly will […]

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Andy Cush

If you’re a drinker, chances are there’s been a time when you’ve walked past a beer truck or warehouse and idly wondered how easy it would be t0 rip it off for all the booze you’d like. If you’re like most people, chances are the thought left your head as quickly as it appeared and […]

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Allison Bagg

Rhea, West Village. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]

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March 1, 2013 Marina Galperina

The pop-up “I.R.L Cupcake.spamm.fr” exhibit is screening the work of more than 50 artists at the corner of Bowery & Kenmare through March 5th. (Photo: Ronen Shai) […]

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Marina Galperina

There’s nothing really that controversial about Marc Bradley Johnson’s art project, but the School of Visual Arts MFA student’s final piece Take This Sperm and Be Free of Me — i.e. 68 vials of his own semen — have been confiscated as a biohazard. Apparently, there are some risks involved in freely dispersing your sperm to strangers over Craigslist.  “I’ve been […]

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Julia Dawidowicz

Yarn Bomb Queen of the Universe Olek premiered her solo exhibition, The End is Far, at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in Chelsea this week. The show, inspired by her year-long house arrest following a violent altercation with that drunk guy in London, whisks visitors away to Olek’s pink-and-gold camouflage crochet heaven. Expanding on her signature […]

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