Category: Takeover
New York-based photographer Tod Seelie is back from… Where’ve you been, Tod? “In Portland, Oregon on a raft, in LA shooting bands, and then hiding out on a farm in Nebraska.” Welcome back. We’re excited, because his first photography book Bright Nights: Photographs of Another New York published by PRESTEL comes out later this month, and he’s having a solo show at […]
Massive Attack V Adam Curtis (2013, at Park Avenue Armory) Adam Curtis “documentary” W GIANT IMPORTANT WORDS — a beautiful pulsating super-cut of found-ish footage re: NEWS/GOVERNMENTS/DONALD TRUMP/THE SARCOPHAGUS OF DATA/RUSSIAN PUNK MUSIC FROM SIBERIA/ALGORITHMS OF SUBMISSION/WAR IN AFGHANISTAN… USA/RUSSIA/YOU.. etc. on many LARGE screens. U stand 4 movie but its really a concert. Massive […]
It was only a matter of time before Better Out Than In, Banksy’s month of working on the streets of NYC, ventured outside of Manhattan. And unsurprisingly, the first outer-borough works arrived in Williamsburg and Bushwick. The street artist gave a few pieces of citizen graffiti a “Broadway makeover,” slapping the phrase “The Musical” over existing […]
Cascos, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Not all of New York’s aerosol-wielding denizens are out to destroy the work renowned street artist Banksy has been putting up as part of his Better Out Than In campaign that’s currently underway in the city. Witness Krystyna Printup says she snapped photos of a guy in an orange vest and hard hat fixing the […]
“Your data should belong to the NSA,” reads a new billboard on West Broadway near Canal Street. There’s no indication of who put it up–just that phrase, all-caps, against a plain white background. It’s the kind of sly commentary one might expect from Banksy, if he wasn’t busy painting dogs peeing on things. A similar […]
The shock of the new is a difficult thing to renew. This is an era in which continued exploration of outer space is expressly whelming, intellectual incuriosity wins friends and influences people, and thousands of musical instruments lay broken in city schools while hotly heralded iPads are promised and then somehow mislaid. There comes a […]
From a flattened, remixed kid-face shuffling on a video billboard in Detroit, to the epic mutant on the exquisite corpse Tumblr project Cloaque, Rollin Leonard has been exhibiting photography-based work since 2004. It’s body horror… if body horror was very nice to look at. His first solo show of polished plexiglass’ed sculptures, looped moving images and digital collages “Trunks, Stems and […]
It’s day three of Better Out Than In, Banksy’s month-long “artist’s residency on the streets of New York,” and accordingly, a new piece has popped up. This one’s on 24th and 6th, and notably, it wasn’t actually done today–a tipster sent us photos yesterday afternoon. We weren’t sure if it was legit, so we sat on […]
Confucius, Midtown. (Photo: Allison Bagg/ANIMALNewYork) […]
