Category: Takeover
Welcome to the mind of Anthony “Carlos Danger” Weiner, as imagined by the Printed Internet. […]
Mohammed, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This morning in london, the first burger made from “Cultured Beef” was cooked and eaten by Chicago author Josh Schonwald and Austrian food researcher Hanni Rützler. Grown in a petri-dish using real flesh cells harvested from a cow and a “nutrient solution” of amino acids, minerals, sugars and fats, the in-vitro beef was pan-fried and burgered, […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, New York graffiti bomber turned fashion designer CLAW talks about her process for designing and installing the window displays at Lord and Taylor on Fifth Avenue. Usually I never work with a sketch or a completely planned out idea, but […]
Erica Simone created quite a stir in 2011 with her “Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen” photo series that featured her doing every day things around the city while posing completely nude. And apparently it’s not over yet. “To celebrate two more years of a work in progress on my project…I am finally […]
When I was a kid, I’d comb through huge boxes of LEGOs to find the perfect piece for whatever I was working on — a two-floor Miami condo, an epic fighting robot, a replica of the Mona Lisa (or not). Today, I’m a little embarrassed I still have huge boxes of LEGOs at home (DON’T JUDGE […]
Located on East First Street off of First Avenue, the Centre-fuge Public Art Project is a rotating outdoor gallery featuring work by mostly street artists. Every two months, new artists are invited to paint a construction office trailer that has been occupying the block as part of the constructions of the Second Avenue Subway. It’s […]
Today is Russian Airborne Troops Day, an annual military pride celebration which traditionally involves gaggles of soldiers spilling into public square for merriment, flag waving, wallowing in public fountains and miscellaneous public drunkenness. This year, they have a new hobby. If anyone has any confusion about what Russia’s recently-adopted anti-gay laws do to its public, let me […]
Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop,” to many people’s chagrin, has become one of the biggest songs of the summer. The striking video, full of drug allusions, playful sexual images and questionable racial posing, immediately sparked controversy. It has over 90 million views on YouTube, and though there was strong backlash to the racial accessorizing of […]
Contrary to the International Olympic Committee who received “assurances from the highest level” of the Russian government that gay Olympic athletes, foreign visitors and the media will not be persecuted under the “gay propaganda” bill, yes they will. Not only the co-writer of the bill, Vitaly Milonov (petition US government to ban Milonov’s Visa here), stated that […]
