Category: Takeover
“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from the Brooklyn psych/folk/rock Woods, who compiled a playlist heavy on live cuts and television appearances. Highlights: garage rock legends The Seeds playing “Pushin’ Too Hard” on a 1968 […]
“Video games exhibits kind of suck if you can’t actually play the games. That’s core to putting them in a show,” Associate Curator of Digital Media Jason Eppink tells ANIMAL. All of the “Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games,” now on view at the Museum of the Moving Image, are playable and we played most of them, before dashing […]
Dungeons & Dragons: no longer the sole province of chubby basement-dwellers. On Saturday, a group of adventurous paladins, wizards, and half-elf rangers gathered in a Crown Heights arts space to play the game while meticulously executing difficult poses like “Opening Door,” “Sword One,” and “Dice Rolling.” This was D&D Yoga, an event borne out of […]
Hamlet, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It was done by CETE and VEW, two graffiti artists born and raised in New York City. ANIMAL got in contact with the outlaws over email, via a trusted source. For obvious legal reasons, they didn’t give us their real names or ages, but were more than happy to discuss their creative exploits. After all, […]
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 Yao Xiao talks about making the official cover art for Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” single. Initially, the very first line about the piece was in an email I received one evening last month — just a simple […]
This was the 10th Annual Idiotarod — a dogsled street race, but with people instead of dogs and shopping carts instead of sleds — now known as Idiotarodorama or Desistarod because of morons in Alaska who issued a cease and desist (read below). No one called it by the new name or talked law Saturday. They […]
Taylor, NYC. (Photo: @tommaync) […]
Snowy weather provides optimal conditions for graffiti artists to get up and lots of them have been using the recent winter storms to do just that. But they’re not just hitting walls and roll-down gates. They’re painting the holy grail of graffiti: New York City subway cars. UPDATE: Another train was painted with a Spy […]
This week, George Zimmerman unleashed his latest painting — an ugly, heavy-handed rendering of Angela Corey, the special prosecutor on his trial. Much like his last “work,” which appropriated a stock photo of an American flag, this one liberally lifts from a preexisting image as well: an Associated Press photo of Corey taken by Rick […]
