Category: Takeover
The acclaimed London “David Bowie is” retrospective all Bowie everything exhibit is touring and going to Canada first. “Spanning five decades and featuring more than 300 objects from Bowie’s personal archive, this totally immersive multimedia show celebrates the groundbreaking artist’s collaborations in the fields of fashion, sound, theatre, art and film” and it’s… a lot of stuff […]
Art’s not dead, but it has left Gagosian. We tried but we can’t keep ignoring the “performance art” piece that Madonna bestowed on the upper crust of celebrity this week. The Gagosian Gallery — misreported as the MoMA — hosted the racial/social/artistic fiasco for the premiere of Madonna’s film project that I refuse to hashtag. Madonna, singing […]
Val, Midtown. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Kenyan photographer and activist Boniface Mwangi arrived in New York this week to speak on a panel at the United Nations. While he was in town, we asked him about last week’s Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi and some of the photos he took while there. “You see these things on TV, and other countries–you […]
The announcement came abruptly, with little fanfare, and from a seemingly unlikely source: @horse_ebooks, the internet’s most beloved spambot, and Pronunciation Book, a less popular but equally obsessed-over YouTube channel, were works of conceptual art. Since 2011, the Twitter account Horse_ebooks has been run by Jacob Bakkila, an artist and creative director currently working for […]
ANIMAL’s Game Plan feature asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke to independent developer Neven Mrgan about Blackbar, an indie iOS game in which players fill in the blanks of communications censored by an overbearing government. Blackbar is not a deceptively […]
Earlier this year, the Shortest Video Art Ever Sold! project at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair in New York made a few headlines with the world’s first Vine sale (Shout out Angela Washko!) Ok, so there was a hacking of Vine involved, but the exciting part in the long-run is the ongoing conversation of a micro-collecting community and the work that artists […]
Kids songs suck… But not when they’re covered by your favorite musical acts like sort of Grimes, Vampire Weekend and Danny Brown! That’s why ANIMAL made you this… “Indie Kidz Songs” — the best music compilation for kids OF ALL TIME [recently] featuring timeless children’s classics covered by very cool indie rock bands, hip rappers and […]
Big deal curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist used to carry around an art gallery in his pocket. Artists exhibited inside its 2 by 3 inch picture frame, until Douglas Gordon lost the Nano Museum in a bar in 1990. Now, Obrist is reviving the project, sort of, by curating a future exhibit at artist Henry Gunderson’s virtual gallery Water McBeer. It’s 300 […]
General David Patraeus was offered a prestigious guest professorship at the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and many of the students and faculty are not happy. Yesterday, protesters gathered with sings at Columbus Avenue and 67th Street, telling ANIMAL that they are trying to “drive out” “the war criminal.” […]
