Category: Takeover
After a brief hiccup by way of a paint-filled fire extinguisher, New York City graffiti artist COPE2 completed his freestyle production on the Bowery Wall last night. As of 10AM this morning, it was still perfectly intact, but with all the controversy and haters the legendary writer attracts, it’s virtually guaranteed that it will undergo […]
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! We found ourselves in a region home to the plot of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle. Veteran graffiti writer Faust was inspired to reference this by […]
Frieze Art Fair is the best trip to a luxury pop-up shopping mall a press pass can buy! Maybe it was the illusion of travel from the ferry ride to Randall’s Island or the un-warehouse quality of that giant, billowing, sun-streaked white tent, but the art was very enjoyable. Here some highlights. First, Beom Kim’s […]
Jackson, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Gabapentin (Neurontin) is a derivative of the neurotransmitter GABA. They’re used as anticonvulsants and as a painkiller specifically for neuropathic pain. Gabapentin’s effects are so similar to others, but have no direct comparison. It has its own unique magic. It’s a strange hybrid, and the closest is its stronger brother pregabalin (Lyrica). While gabapentin is […]
Last night, someone went over COPE2‘s still-in-progress Bowery Wall with the word “snitch,” painting it in black fire-extinguisher lettering. When we arrived at the wall this morning, the writer was on a scissor lift fixing the work while iconic photographer Martha Cooper took photos. COPE2 appeared unfazed by the ragging. “It ain’t no thing,” he […]
Over the last five weeks, Bejing-based Canadian photojournalist Kevin Frayer has been covering India’s parliamentary election for Getty Images, which ended today with epic turnouts in its ninth and final phase. It is considered “the world’s largest democratic exercise,” and the numbers are staggering. Every five years, upwards of 814 million eligible voters, majority rural […]
On May 15th at a warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles, Superchief Gallery is having a grand opening of their new location. They’re still staying in the Lower East Side and throwing pop up art shows and BBQs in Brooklyn all summer. But they’ve driven a truck load of art across the country, so LA gets to […]
Kara Walker’s A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby is not subtle. Dusted with 40 tons of bleached sugar, it stands nearly four stories high and lays 75 and a half feet long across the gutted cavern of the Domino Sugar Factory, which will soon to destroyed and replaced with a glossy condo complex. The New Yorker called the work, unsubtly, “Mammy-as-Sphnix.” […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Francesco Lanciai and Sebastiano Morando—together Atrax Games—about Sym, an intricate little game that explores its creators’ multi-faceted personalities. Sym eventually asks you to make a […]
