Category: Takeover
REVOK and POSE are making steady progress on the Bowery Wall. Here’s what it looked like as of this afternoon. One thing that’s noticeably absent are the artists. As we noted, the Mad Society Kings will be working on their mural mostly at night cause it’s just too damn muggy and hot. (Photos: Aymann Islamil/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Brooklyn’s MakerBot is not the largest 3D printing company in the world, but its efforts to transform a relatively niche, industrial technology into a genuine mainstream revolution — in which regular people can design and print physical objects as easily as they now print photos — have made it the most visible avatar of the […]
News Vines is our new reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. In this edition, the Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional in a historic 5-4 ruling. News Vines: The Supreme Court Finds DOMA Unconstitutional https://t.co/bD6TD7V34u — ANIMALNewYork (@ANIMALNewYork) June 26, 2013 […]
They got Marat Guelman. Unbelievable. Marat Guelman — one of Russia’s most forward-thinking high-ranking art figures with vast experience in pushing Kremlin’s sensitive buttons, has been fired as the director of the vital Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, which he created in 2008. In an Ai Weiwei-style manhunt, Guelman’s finances are being “looked into” and the galerist […]
The pharynx, the space between the tongue root and the back of the throat, is used for gagging, deepthroating and the Afroasiatic languages of North Africa and the Middle East. Arabic’s use of the pharynx is one of the most extensive. Not only does it use the breathy H-like fricative /ħ/ and its voiced counterpart […]
Fiona, East Williamsburg. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Due to the sheer amount of skaters tearing up the streets at any given time, every day seems like Go Skateboarding Day in New York City, but it officially happens–worldwide–on June 21 and has becomes an annual event since 2003. It was even given Congressional approval. For this year’s GSD, things got turned up a […]
On an episode of a conservative radio show, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) compared sex education classes in public schools to life in [a cartoonishly exaggerated dystopian version of] the Soviet Union. Apparently, teaching teenagers about contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases in school is somehow the same as parents surrendering all control over their children’s lives […]
Some dog lovers are so close with their four-legged friends, they can tell what they’re thinking. Or can they? For ANIMAL’s newest series, What Do You Think Your Dog Is Thinking?, we go to dog parks all over New York and find out. Let’s see what’s on the minds of the city’s canines in Tompkins Square Park. Creator/Animator: Michael […]
“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from Keyboard Kid, the producer best known for making the next-level beats for much of Lil B’s vast catalog. And though his tracks tend toward the left-field and […]
