Category: Takeover
On Saturday night in Los Angeles, a crowd filled 1988 Gallery for an exhibition of “Rap Quotes,” a series of works by Jay Shells. The right side of the gallery housed the artist’s New York City street signs, which he’s been hanging at specific locations mentioned in hip hop songs since last year; the left […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Brooklyn and web-based performance artist and playwright Ann Hirsch speaks candidly about Twelve, a digital media piece inspired by her cybersexual preteen relationship with an older man, which was turned into an app and censored by Apple for […]
Here are some quick highlights from the two-day 150-exhibitor Brooklyn Zine Fest from this weekend. From North Hampton: HQ Press featuring Emma Kohlmann (read the ANIMAL interview) featuring Satan’s Pussy. From Brooklyn: & with Nicole (a found diary reproduced in its entirety, with accompanying audio zine), Facial Unrecognition (a collection of vandalized advertising faces, with accompanying audio zine), and Sorry To Hear This News And Understand That The Fault […]
“I think people world rather see this,” ELLE tells ANIMAL, as she swaps a bus shelter ad with a monochrome self-portrait, swiftly and cheerfully. Just like that, she’s done and we head over to Brooklyn’s MECKA Gallery to meet the legendary street photographer Martha Cooper. Their collaborative art show “Unextinguished” opens this Saturday. For the show, ELLE […]
The Summerstage series of outdoor concerts released its 2014 lineup this week, and as usual, there’s a slew of good shows from artists across the genre spectrum. For your convenience, we’ve dug through the schedule for the best hip hop, rock, reggae, and dance music events of the summer, many of which are free. Highlights […]
Palcohol, the powdered alcohol that will completely change the way we brunch and justify our one bottle of wine a day habit, had its label approval cruelly torn from it after the alcohol law blog Bevlaw reported on it. The makers claim it was just an error in the packaging but from the history of […]
Bruce, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Charity Water, a legit non-profit organization committed to “bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations” is “no longer in possession” of the $35,000 donated to them by sticker-bombing con artist BNE, Charity Water spokesman Paull Young tells ANIMAL. BNE raised the money last month by claiming to sell a collaborative tee with […]
Earlier this month, when George W. Bush premiered his portraits of world leaders, we found and cited the sources for nearly all of his paintings. It was really easy, because they were taken directly from the subjects’ first Google image search results and Wikipedia entries. With the help of appropriation expert Greg Allen (who was the first to spot GWB’s Google trail), we […]
Earlier this week the Ukrainian government released photographic evidence linking the organized, suspiciously well-armed “pro-Russian” _________ leading insurgencies in the country’s eastern industrial cities to Russian military forces and “sabotage-reconnaissance” groups. The photos have been heavily scrutinized, and not for nothing — one of the misattributed images appears to be lifted right off of Maxim […]
