Category: Takeover
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Kate Wilson, talks about the Swiss and celestial inspirations of her Geometric Mechanics series for WAG — “a mini 3-dimensional, single room gallery that fits into people’s pocket.” In 2012, I began working on a series of drawings inspired by […]
Slavoj, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 47° F NIGHT 40° F Back by popular demand, Je t’aime, je t’aime is back at Film Forum through the 18th, because dir. Alain Resnais just died and suicidal time travel […]
“The art world is still a boys’ club,” artist Mollie McKinley told ANIMAL. Before a nude performer bent herself over Z Behl’s giant-horned sculpture and the crowd flooded in, we crashed the instal of this year’s massive Brucennial group show in the Meatpacking Disctrict. Soon, the lines would stretch around the block in the freezing cold and the GoPro we taped to the […]
SXSW has little bit of something for everyone. Be it music, arts, food, or booze — every day feels like a corporate sponsored party. That being said, after several days of drinking Lone Stars next to seemingly the same dude in fingerless gloves and a cabbie hat, it was time to break the monotony… by […]
This week, Banksy teamed up with a coalition of international human rights organizations to raise awareness about the conflict in Syria. His contribution: A remix of his old Balloon Girl image as a “Muslim” child, accompanied by the hashtag #WithSyria. With the help of the street artist’s fame and meme-ness, the campaign is gaining quite a lot of attention […]
Jimmy Failla, a comedian and part-time taxi driver, achieved some internet notoriety this week for a video in which he picked up passengers while a 10-foot albino python was in his cab in an effort to promote his new book. People’s reactions, understandably, ranged from “What the fuck is this doing here?” to “When I get […]
Today’s New York Times features a full-page ad from an organization affiliated with the Occupy Gezi protests commemorating the life of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old boy who was killed by a police teargas canister during a demonstration. The group, called Gezi Democracy Movement, funded the ad on Indiegogo. “Fifteen-year-old Berkin Elvan died after 269 days in a […]
Marina, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last year, the Boulder-based dispensary Helping Hands Herbals named a strain of weed in honor of CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, after the high profile physician reversed his position on medical weed and outlined its benefits in a widely received documentary. The brand was called the “Gupta Kush” and although the news network […]
