Category: Takeover
Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 394,000 art images are now publicly available for high-resolution download and non-commercial reuse. The initiative, dubbed Open Access for Scholarly Content, launched last week. “Through this new, open-access policy, we join a growing number of museums that provide free access to images of art in the public domain,” Met […]
Cecily McMillan, the Occupy protester who was charged with assaulting a police officer after an incident the night of March 17, 2012, was sentenced to 90 days in prison minus time served and five years probation on Monday. The courtroom inside the Criminal Courts Building was at capacity when ANIMAL arrived this morning as dozens of demonstrators […]
This week, Smart Crew‘s DCEVE, SNOEMAN, ELMO and MARTY teamed up with ANIMAL and SIXTY Soho to throw an art party in the hotel lobby, covering the walls with art to be destroyed by the end of the night. Over the course of the evening, partygoers and writers seemed to go over every surface of the room with […]
A little while ago, ANIMAL took a trip to the Catskills and took over a motel transforming four of the rooms into non-traditional pop-up art experiences in a series of videos for Lincoln Now! This is the “Heroine Den” featuring the work of Brooklyn’s transmedia artist Carla Gannis. Find out more here. The visuals featured classic super-heroes, reinvented for the […]
Last night, graffiti art collective Smart Crew teamed up with ANIMAL and SIXTY Soho — formerly the Thompson Hotel — to throw an event that essentially allowed partygoers to bomb the lobby with drippy paint markers. The entire hotel is undergoing a renovation and owner Jason Pomeranc wanted to highlight the soon-to-be-renovated space with a […]
For a brief moment earlier this week, graffiti writers, photographers, and enthusiasts were freaked out at the specter of an NYPD Vandal Squad Instagram account. ANIMAL reached out to the squad to inquire about the account’s veracity, who told us they “wouldn’t allow such a thing on Instagram.” Clearly, this was some sort of hoax. […]
A little while ago, ANIMAL took a trip to the Catskills and took over a motel transforming four of the rooms into non-traditional pop-up art experiences in a series of videos for Lincoln Now! For our most collaborative mini-installation, we worked with an experimental tech crew that made it possible for a violinist and an artist to […]
Every year, My Famicase Exhibition asks artist and designers to imagine Nintendo Entertainment System games that never were, then create the cartridge art for those games. This year’s entries are absolutely gorgeous, and many sound like games you’d actually want to play. In Children, by Cory Schmitz, kids of the future run amok because their parents are addicted to […]
Even though Steven Patrick Morrissey has had a Twitter account since 2009, he finally mustered up a tweet today. It was as passive aggressive as you probably imagined. Here are some upcoming tweets that we imagined. […]
Last night, an Instagram account ostensibly belonging to the NYPD Vandal Squad began following graffiti writers, photographers, and city institutions (they followed ANIMAL this morning). But even for the Vandal Squad — notorious among writers for their seemingly fanboyish attitude toward graffiti and willingness to steal photos — it seemed a little too brazen to be […]
