Category: Takeover
News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. Are you wondering what the world leaders are doing at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg? […]
Café des Artistes is packed with storied New Yorkers. Walt Frazier, Tina Fey, RZA, Jonathan Lethem, Diane Von Furstenberg, Woody Allen, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are just a few of the many familiar faces in artist Tom Sanford’s latest body of work, which opens to the public today at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in Chelsea. Sanford tells ANIMAL […]
Joey Jordan lives in San Francisco. Amarildo lives in Brazil. The two have never met and know virtually nothing about each other, but Jordan has a small, realistic portrait of Amarildo–sunglasses on, arms crossed, and smirking, with a cigarette hanging from his lip–tattooed squarely on his right butt cheek. Why? Because of “human connection and […]
Artist and prominent activist Steve Lambert’s recent piece Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False) is a massive 20 x 9 ft illuminated sign, fully equipped with a podium that allows the public to participate by voting. The piece, which was co-commissioned by the French Institute Alliance Française and Times Square Arts as part of FIAF’s 2013 Crossing the Line festival is set to be on view right in […]
Arch, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Hell Baby (2013) From the guys who brought you Reno 911 it’s Reno 911 w/Vatican priests sorta. Haunted house! Haunted uterus! “Bitches be trippin.” Demon baby. Ghost blow jobs. Po’ boys. Po’verty. Exorcismz. Eviscerationz. HAHAHAHA. BLOoOOO0OO0oOD: 2.meh out of 5.0 Standard gory American comedy slapstick NOT GORY ENOUGH. Y U eviscerate/crucify “Dr.” Michael Ian Black and 1 scene […]
Artist Jennifer Maravillas is mapping Brooklyn, all of Brooklyn. “The name of my map is 71 Square Miles because that’s how big the borough is,” she tells ANIMAL, peeling old crinkled flyers off posts and picking up scribbled-up, torn-out paper from the sidewalk. “I’m interested in trash because it shows so much about people’s lives. It’s language and […]
The newest commissioned artwork for the High Line Billboard was recently unveiled. Chosen for the billboard was “Waking“, a 1984 image featuring the collaborative artist duo Gilbert & George surrounded on both sides by various young men, many of whom are wearing rather garish makeup, and are accompanied by several expressive splotches of color. The entire stained […]
Insomnia is New York. New York is insomnia. We have a 24/7 metro system, last call at 4am, and 24hr restaurants everywhere. Leave the office, stay up all night and catch a cab, because in a few hours, it’s time to get to the office and start it all over again. But you toss and […]
For his new series therainpaintings, Kilo Collective’s Brazilian-born artist Gustavo Sousa collects raindrops — in Paris, São Paulo and around New York, from Hell’s Kitchen to Chelsea to Park Avenue — and watercolors with them. “We have these beautiful sculptures floating above us every day and we take little notice of them, especially in big cities like […]
