Category: Takeover
News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. There’s something about phones and video games in the news today. […]
Brooklyn artist Evan Desmond Yee didn’t know that the vintage reels he bought at a California flea market contained porn starring ’70s XXX starlet Annie Sprinkle. Yee preserved these artifacts from “the Turn of the Age of Pornography” as altered sculptural objects in light boxes. “I wanted to create something that looks like an advertising-fetish object and still retains its historical […]
100 years ago, mysterious humanoid figures called Titans, ranging from 16 to 50 feet tall, appeared on Earth and began to decimate humanity. These giants ate any people in their wake, feasting their way across the landscape until the remainder of humankind barricaded itself behind a series of cramped concentric walls that keep the Titans […]
Last evening at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, an orchestra and a chorus performed Yves Klein’s Monotone-Silence Symphony (1947-1949) — a D major chord sustained for twenty minutes with no distinguishable breaks in sound, immediately followed by twenty minutes of silence. The symphony itself was performed in conjunction with the exhibition “Audible Presence: Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week we’re looking at “Bound 2” from Yeezus. It was recently released as that polarizing album’s second single (here’s ‘Ye and Charlie Wilson performing it on Jools Holland earlier this […]
Last month, the decade-old Joe Strummer tribute that was painted on the side of an East Village bar was completely buffed by workers doing renovations according to EV Grieve. It was originally painted outside of Niagara on the corner of East 7th Street and Avenue A by legendary graffiti artists REVOLT and ZEPHYR in 2003, […]
The finest food and drink in New York has to end up somewhere, but even the fanciest of restaurants seem shy about sharing their bathrooms. This series documents those rarely discussed amenities. Momofuku Ssäm Bar 207 2nd Ave, East Village, Manhattan Agozar Cuban Bistro 324 Bowery, Noho/East Village, Manhattan Cerveceria Havemeyer 149 Havemeyer St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Black […]
With Electric Zoo in the news and people all over the city talking about bad Molly, I think it’s time for some harm reduction. STOP EATING SO MUCH FUCKING MOLLY. Many drugs have non-linear pharmacokinetics. That may mean 20mg is not twice as strong as 10mg, it may be 4 times or even stronger. Other […]
It didn’t take long for graffiti to spread across the pond. The underground art form that was birthed in the train yards and streets of NYC in the late 1960s and flourished in the early 1980s quickly made its way to London. “Everything that takes off in New York, comes here about a year or […]
Wobbling over the Williamsburg Bridge on a misaligned bike wheel earlier today, I ran into Michael — a bike mechanic who set up his DIY shop in the middle of the bridge where the bike lane crosses the pedestrian path. I haven’t had the time or the funds to stop by a bike shop since getting hit […]
