Category: Takeover
Street artist Buff Monster has been busy painting walls in Brooklyn lately using his signature pink color scheme. We showed you the collaboration he did with HOACS and just the other day he finished another wall at Bushwick Collective, a sort of outdoor gallery on Troutman Street between St. Nicholas and Wycoff Avenues. “Not bad […]
ANIMAL is happy to learn that our friend Molly Crabapple just got a book deal from Harper Collins! Pub Lunch announces… Artist, journalist, and Discordia coauthor Molly Crabapple’s Drawing Blood, an illustrated memoir of her life as an “angry punk kid,” model, fire eater, demimonde portraitist, and visual chronicler of protest movements—and an inspiring look at how art […]
Bobby, Union Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. Jay Z would like you to stop using a hyphen when writing his name, please. […]
Grown Ups 2, one of the least well-received movies of 2013, begins with Adam Sandler’s character Lenny waking up and getting pissed on by a CGI deer. Grown Ups 2, a movie hovering at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and 20% on Metacritic, builds up to a far too elaborate ’80s-themed costume party that gets the […]
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. In some ways, Joey Bada$$ and Rick Ross couldn’t be more different. One is a teenager from Flatbush who, despite high-profile cosigns, still feels like an anachronistic underdog, spitting […]
So, I got a tip this morning on Twitter. Here is the cover to Bob Dylan’s upcoming album “Another Self Portrait (1969-1971).” Does it look more like Richard Prince, the alleged ghost-painter behind Bob Dylan’s controversially stolen-photo-based Gagosian art exhibit? What does Richard Prince tweeting this mean? What the what the why why art world? I […]
There are few artists more innocuous, more neutered, more universally loved and reviled than Thomas Kinkade. His soft-focus images present an idyllic vision of America and of Christianity, like Norman Rockwell without the blue-collar populism, where everything is beautiful, nothing hurts, and there’s always a warm fire going in the Lincoln-Log cabin just down the […]
Darius, Rockaway Beach. (Photo:Andy Cush/ANIMALNewYork) […]
PIXOTE will now greet East River Ferry riders arriving at the site of the old Schaefer Brewery in Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
