Category: News
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Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg’s 25-by-75-foot billboard You & Me was recently revealed at 18th Street by Friends of the High Line. The bold text and bright colors remind of 1960s poster art and concert flyers, which is right about when Ruppersberg began exhibiting in LA. It’s no Maurizio Cattelan’s severed fingers or David Shrigley’s excruciating internal […]
If you clicked this link, you, like me, were struck with a fit of morbid curiosity after seeing that the son of multi-millionaire fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger makes rap music. Would this be sub-Chet Haze drivel? Or would Ricky Hil (formerly known as Rich Hil, for anybody keeping score) somehow find something interesting to say, […]
We’ve all snuck photos of fellow subway commuters, but photographer Rebecca Davis went beyond your pedestrian Instagram snap. She calls her project New York Underground “an update” to Walker Evans’ Many Are Called. Davis turned some of her work into this narrative short that plays out like a photo flip-book of interactions. Some sequences of nuances are fantastic. […]
“It turns out that, while a folding wheel is useful for cyclists, it can actually be life changing for wheelchair users,” says Vitamins Design’s Adam Westaway of his company’s brand new fold-up wheel. “There are so many problems associated with storing and transporting wheelchairs, and the biggest problem is the wheel size.” Westaway and the […]
With Obama’s drone war in full swing and expanded to include the killing of Americans, the Department of Defense will continue to purchase new UAVs, but what will the U.S. do with it’s older models? The burgeoning drone industry will need to find some new buyers. The most obvious place they’ll look is with police […]
Elmer, Financial District. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artists continue to graciously provide outdoor visuals in Bushwick for riders of the J/M trains. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Snapshots, portraits, landscapes — for about 175 years, most photographers have used the camera to depict what we can see. “But another tradition exists,” writes gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel: a parallel history in which photographers and other artists have attempted to describe by photographic means that which is not so readily seen: thought, time, ghosts, god, […]
To test just how clever Cleverbot really is, director Chris R. Wilson created a short film, co-written by the celebrated artificial intelligence platform and acted out by real humans. According to Wilson, he’d set up scenes for Cleverbot, then allow it to fill in the characters’ dialogue. The resulting film is as zany as should […]
Artist Jay Shells — who our readers know from putting up uncanny “subway etiquette,” telling the cops to clean up after their horses and gloriously punking Fox News — is getting married, yey! His proposal was perfectly appropriate: “RACHEL WILL YOU MARRY ME?” in five graffitied rooftops on the Upper East Side. “I was definitely going to paint the proposal […]
