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May 30, 2013 Allison Bagg

Lou, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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May 29, 2013 Marina Galperina

There’s a brand new artist interview video series on Netartnet.net and, as ANIMAL’s Art Editor, I’m jealous. Artist Anthony Antonellis’s Netartnet.net project — “quick access to netart listings… all netart gallery bookmarks and RSS feeds in one place” — celebrated its one year anniversary this week, with more than 300 exhibitions and 1000 artists logged and with archives reaching back into […]

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Backdoor Pharmacist

Phenazepam or “da joose” is a benzodiazepine drug that expresses the 5 typical benzo actions: sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant and muscle relaxant. In other words — chill out, go to bed, stop worrying, stop seizing and stop twitching. Phenazepam is just as dangerous as any other CNS depressant and is habit forming. Mixing it with […]

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Marina Galperina

Pagan sacrifice! Violent flailing! SEX! When Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring ballet premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris 100 years ago today, there were fist fights in the audience. Indignant critics limped on home, cradling their jolted nervous systems. There is so much going on in this piece. Now, you can see it in Stephen Malinowski‘s beautiful visualization […]

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Allison Bagg

Billy, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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May 28, 2013 Marina Galperina

Just when you think everything that could be 3D-printed has been 3D-printed and every “Unknown Pleasures”-related artwork has been arted, here’s a 3D-printed “Unknown Pleasures”-related art work. It’s perfect. Michael Zoellner intricately adjusted the file specifications to get the model just right: “I even tried to visualize PSR B1919+21’s waveforms, but in the end I spent an evening tracing the waves by […]

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Marina Galperina

Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric directed Major Lazer’s latest video “Bubble Butt” which explains everything. Check it out: #seapunk chicks. Watch ’em swaying to clinky Caribbean-esque “dope beats” until a Giant Bubble Butt Medusa Woman comes down Godzilla style, sprouts bike pumps out of her mouth and pumps their seapunk butts until they are of proper Bubble […]

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Andy Cush

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Small Black’s “Listen In” playlist, compiled by singer Josh Kolenik, is a crash course in arted-up new wave and outsider folk, with cuts from acid-fried Moby Grape singer Skip Spence, San Francisco street […]

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Marina Galperina

ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Nicolas Sassoon takes us through the construction of Headquarters for Computers Club. Headquarters started out as random conversations with Krist Wood a few years ago. The Computers Club website was undergoing some changes at the time, and Krist offered me […]

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Allison Bagg

David, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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