Category: Takeover
“They make me viscerally happy. I love to look at them. Sometimes they almost make me feel sad because they make me so happy,” says Emily Stebbins, a curator at The Smile Face Museum. The museum was founded in 1992 by Mark Sachs in his basement in Maryland. This spring, it was opened to the public for the […]
Here are three of a dozen previously unseen digital images that were created by Andy Warhol and have been trapped on deteriorating floppy disks from 1985. They were just recovered by “a multi-institutional team of new-media artists, computer experts, and museum professionals” using something called “Forensic Retrocomputing.” The purely digital images, “trapped” for nearly 30 years on […]
Ozzy, SoHo. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Earlier today, we stopped by Carini Lang to check out the “Back Against the Wall” art show. The show, which opens later tonight, features fifty giant handmade carpets and tapestries by the likes of COST, ENX, BEAU, PIXOTE, READER, REA and more. See them in the gallery above. This elegant solution to displaying street art inside your home comes with an elegant price tag, […]
Hey, there’s a lot to like about Australia — the beaches, the accent, the endless variety of lethal wildlife. Sadly, the country’s government isn’t one of them. WHAT’S GOING ON? Last year, Australia elected its most right-wing government in living memory. It was formed by the not-liberal-at-all Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, […]
According to Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures is in talks with Danny Boyle to direct a Steve Jobs biopic and Danny Boyle is reportedly in talks with Leonardo DiCaprio to star. Thankfully, the actor’s most notable performances have prepared him for such a challenge, particularly his last three films. ROMEO + JULIET (1996): RICH ASSHOLE THE MAN IN THE IRON […]
Exciting news! In the words of our friends at Glad Tidings, “SOMEONE LET US AT THE BROOKLYN NIGHT BAZAAR!” ANIMAL New York has teamed up with Glad Tidings From New York to present two nights — Friday May 2nd and Saturday May 3rd — of awesome music. It’s free. It’s all ages. There’s skee-ball, apparently. What more do you […]
Pearl Paint, the art-supply store that’s been standing on Canal Street for 50 years, closed its doors for good last week. Its iconic red-and-white building was put up for sale (and possible demolishment) two weeks ago. This morning, several patrons who hadn’t heard the news showed up to buy supplies. One lady, with McDonald’s all […]
In the late 1970s, Dan Witz began painting hummingbirds on walls around downtown Manhattan. The work — created illegally, with acrylic paint and brushes — so predated any notion of “street art” that the term hadn’t even been codified yet. It was years before artists like Keith Haring would attract a mainstream audience to the […]
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-based artist Am Schmidt talks about Fierce (Untitled), an endurance performance where she wore Abercrombie & Fitch graphic shirts and Fierce cologne every day for one year inspired by Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance, Sincerity by R. Jay Magill […]
