Category: Takeover
We’ve always been revolted and fascinated with the dripping gunk caking the Bryant Park subway station. Why did Mayor Bloomberg, alleged champion of public health, allow the city’s transit system to double as a giant petri dish? How many other stations look like this? Is Mayor De Blasio going to do anything about this? Who knows, but […]
A spread on Vogue.com today has everything you need to dress like your favorite emoji. Night on the town? Try the dancer-in-red-dress icon with a $475 Haute Hippie dress and $625 Alexander Wang lace-up heels. If the running man emoji is more your style, a $178 red t-shirt and $308 Converse knock-offs will totally nail it. It’s […]
The Heartbleed bug is upon us. All of us. In the words of security expert Bruce Schneier: “On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.” WHY The Heartbleed bug is a security disaster that strikes at the most popular security software on the internet, OpenSSL. Server administrators all over are scrambling, and security certificate […]
George W. Bush’s solo art show “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy” has just opened at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas. Moving on from paintings of dogs and bath time, the exhibit features 30 oil-on-board paintings of world leaders. It appears as if they are all lazy reproductions of some of the […]
“I don’t really associate with urban explorers, but I think I do more than photography,” 2e says. It’s midnight, snowing a bit, and 2e is biking towards the abandoned warehouses in Greenpoint. Later that night, he’ll climb a smoke stack on top of the Domino Sugar Factory and poke around the Underbelly Project. But at […]
Dominique Ansel Bakery, home of the Cronut, reopened this morning after a brief closing due to “severe mouse infestation.” Droves of fans, who lined up to the end of the bakery’s Spring Street block, were undeterred by the threat of rodents. “Well, it’s kind of like Ratatouille. You had the little mouse in the kitchen in France, […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla talks about a new series of images and sculptures based on explorations of archeological, archival and digital junk piles. His solo show “Surface Survey” opens at TRANSFER Gallery on April 19th. After my […]
The artist Edie Fake is, in his own words, a “buildings nerd.” His latest book, Memory Palaces, which collects 16 vibrantly patterned drawings that reimagine lost queer spaces in Chicago, debuts at this weekend’s MoCCA Arts Fest at the 69th Regiment Armory. “When I first moved back to Chicago a few years ago,” Fake recalls, […]
The Bowery station for the J/Z lines has been open for over a century, but since about 2004, a ghost-like set of platforms and tracks have been completely shuttered to the public. When graffiti started accumulating, the area was cordoned off with plywood, killing the chances of seeing even a glimpse of what was going […]
Opioid ODs now kill more people than car crashes. That’s a death around every half hour. In this epidemic, this public health disaster of our own creation, you can see why the FDA fast-tracked this new drug packaging. Naloxone or Narcan, is a powerful opioid antagonist. It runs to your brain, rips the fun out, […]
