Category: Takeover
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Melissa Clarke talks about Untitled: Ice Gouge for Performance — her sound piece, installation and performance that sources field recordings of glaciers. The artist is also premiering footage of her performance of the piece at Brooklyn’s Silent […]
This morning, Dennis Rodman emerged into a conference room at Manhattan’s Soho Grand Hotel, cigar in his mouth and sparkly scarf around his neck, to a sea of eager reporters. Flanked by representatives from the International Crisis Group and the Irish betting firm Paddy Power, he rambled, seemingly without forethought, through references to his wedding […]
Colombian street artist Stinkfish tells ANIMAL that he is on his way to India after spending over a week in Nepal, where he was busy painting. “This was a 10 day trip I just finished,” writes the Bogota-born artist in an email. “The pieces are located in the cities of Kathmandu, Patan, Pokhara and Bhaktapur. […]
Melzack, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Nate Cepis/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A Net Art Show on the Internet Review is a new ongoing series of reviews of net art shows… on the internet. Art Baby is an online exhibition space that supports artists who “consider digitality to be a main focus of their practice” “in the beginning stages of their career.” Currently on view: Aimee Leigh. Expectingly, […]
The ever-busy, Brooklyn-based art collective known as Faile was commissioned to do a massive mural on the entire side of a building in Hell’s Kitchen. Faile tells ANIMAL they created the design and that the masters of hand painting big stuff, Colossal Media, will be doing the execution–like the outdoor advertising company did with Greg […]
Yesterday, we stopped by Leila Heller Gallery before the opening reception of CALLIGFRATTI 1984-2013, a redux of the landmark exhibition that Jeffrey Deitch and Leila Heller curated in 1984 and Deitch’s first New York show in awhile. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between graffiti and calligraphy, as found in the works of nearly fifty artists: Keith Haring, […]
I’ll never get used to seeing horses clopping down busy Manhattan streets. I shot these horses’ portraits near the corner of 52nd Street and 11th Avenue, where many of these tourist-transporting animals and their novelty vehicles are parked. Just look at those faces. Look into their eyes. Then, looking beyond the horses, behind their swinging bag […]
Non-for-profit arts organization Platform Six is currently hosting their first Exhibition and Art Charity Auction featuring the work of ten artists. That includes Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Elton John and Boy George, and actually… These are pretty good. For shoes. Or art. For art shoes. Victor Ivanov’s pig flesh and head and resin Adidas are very […]
Siouxsie, Bushwick. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
