Category: Takeover
We can only imagine what time concertgoers started drinking before Governor’s Ball. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Another successful Governors Ball, the closest thing New York has to the millennial hippiefest that is Coachella, wrapped this weekend. ANIMAL showed up Sunday evening at 7 PM, when The Black Keys and Lana Del Rey were headlining, to ask people what time they started drinking. Concertgoers flashed their fingers to tell us what time […]
ANIMAL paired SABE, a NYC-based graffiti writer and artist, with Carter Cruise, an adult film star and deejay. The mission? Teach her graffiti. Cruise met up with us in an industrial area near the Queens-Brooklyn border. SABE pulled out a drippy marker and wrote his name and then hers. He handed her the mop filled […]
“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. Alligator Years, the sophomore album by Omaha-based Twinsmith, is the perfect album for […]
Benson, Times Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Graffiti artist GREVE included Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza for his latest mural in Bushwick, but after this week’s vintage sitcom news, he probably should’ve done a RIP Susan Ross memorial. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
An artist who goes by the nom de guerre Mercury has pushed the concept of appropriation to its limit by finishing three discarded Peter Halley canvasses. The painstaking works are somewhere between reproduction, satire, collaboration, and theft. They can be seen for the first time at Mercury’s show “In Appropriate,” which opens tomorrow at a […]
Emma Sulkowicz is an artist and activist who carried her mattress everywhere she went to protest her alleged rapist’s continued presence on the Columbia campus until her graduation last month. Rape has now become a recurring theme in her work, as her newest project is a disturbing video featuring herself in a sexual encounter gone […]
Perseus, Midtown Terminal – East River Ferry. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Last night’s filming of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 in Soho included these skeleton marchers. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
