Category: Takeover
London is notorious for its network of CCTV cameras. The surveillance efforts are ubiquitous, Orwellian and frighteningly advanced: Authorities can watch and track people, from camera to camera, all over the city. While New York City is moving in the same direction, at least in London a menagerie of signs has been deployed to remind the […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Rick Silva illustrates his work process — “encounters between the tools of digital communication and the unbuilt environment.” He makes new media landscapes on site and is currently exhibiting at TRANSFER gallery in Brooklyn. For the enpleinair.org site/series […]
Justin Wedes of Occupy Wall Street is reporting from the front lines of the protests in Turkey for ANIMAL all week. He’s also tweeting from the field continuously. Walking down Istiklal Street — a broad pedestrian path leading out of Istanbul’s downtown Taksim Square — the air is festive. It feels like a vibrant party scene, with techno music […]
Neil, Shoreditch. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
In a seemingly unlikely and wonderful collaboration, artist Gary Baseman teamed up with South-African duo Die Antwoord to make… The Buckingham Warrior, a tale inspired by Gary Baseman’s father Ben Baseman who survived the holocaust, fighting the Nazi invasion in Ukraine’s birch tree forests for almost 4 years. Big up to the MOCAtv YouTube channel which has some amazing […]
Artist Daniel Edwards has built a career on naked, pregnant and recently dead celebrities with his bronze sculptures and bronze-colored computer renderings. Using leaked 3D ultrasounds, allegedly, he presents to you his latest masterpiece Baby Kimye And The Royal Heir — a sleeping fetus duo. It’s an improvement on his last masterpiece Special K, a sleeping fetus. Lacks a […]
Tim, East Williamsburg. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Look at that. That minimalist Dan Flavin knew what he was doing, am I right? Sure, his signature sculptural fluorescent light installations looked good at the Dia or, say, at the Wissenschaftspark Rheinelbe in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, but don’t they look hot in a SoHo loft? Fellow famous minimalist Donald Judd lived here and you can now rent the renovated loft from […]
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. It seems fitting that James Murphy should face off against Beck. Both were musical omnivores, both serially repurposed bygone sounds toward their own ends, and each is entirely of the […]
Can Kenneth Goldsmith do wrong? For his latest endeavor, Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate and founding editor of the unstoppable, renegade avant garde media archive UbuWeb wants YOU to print out the entire internet. The idea is simple: print out as much as of the web as you want — be it one sheet or a truckload — send […]
