Category: Takeover
Feminist icon and women’s right activist Gloria Steinem will be hosting a night of “revolutionary laughter” that honors black women in comedy on Tuesday evening. The event is part of the “Sisters of Comedy” series, pegged as the only “all black women showcase at a top comedy club in NYC,” according to founder Agunda Okeyo […]
Jalissa, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artists painted tributes to Puerto Rican heritage that stretched around the block in Brooklyn. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. British pop indie rock band The Maccabees are currently touring over North America […]
Over the weekend, a group of graffiti artists painted Boricua-themed pieces to kick off the annual Puerto Rico Day Parade festivities. The march may have started on 5th Avenue, but the celebrations spread throughout the city. Writers such as YES1, DARK, BIO, CRASH, RIBS, BG138, NICER, and ZIMAD descended on the walls (legally) at the […]
Methoxetamine, or MXE, is an exotic new dissociative anesthetic drug structurally related to ketamine. It first emerged in 2010, synthesized for the express purpose to be more powerful than ketamine with less toxicity. It has a strange property, action at serotonin, the same receptor that MDMA works on. Methoxetamine is a barely 5-year-old drug. However, […]
López, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Art world disrupter Istvan Kantor has once again found himself in the custody of the NYPD for writing the Neoist nom de guerre “Monty Cantsin” at an exhibition that was not his own. As ANIMAL previously reported, on Tuesday evening, Kantor tagged a mattress that was part of an installation at The Hole Shop by […]
Citi Bike is revamping its fleet, adding 2,400 sturdier models that were designed by Ben Serotta, the legendary frame builder whose bikes have been ridden in the Olympics. The new bikes weren’t built with racing in mind, of course, but with customizability, functionality and safety. Serotta researched the bikes by talking with bike share employees, […]
As part of an all-female group show curated by graffiti-trained-artist CLAW, thirty-six women recently customized mini-water towers. Each artist, including CLAW, was given a blank wood-like tower by Boundless Brooklyn, a company that sells DIY models of various objects symbolizing NYC. They were then asked to portray “Whatever feminism means to you.” The scaled-down structures […]
