Category: Takeover
Ari, Lower East Side. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Nick Cave’s immersive performance art piece HEARD NY premiered at the Grand Central Metro station, filling the space with a gentle rustling sound. Each of the 30 uniquely-crafted horse-suits required two dancers from the Alvin Ailey Dance School to maneuver. The horses “graze” by shifting around and trotting in circles, then breaking into choreographed dance routines set to […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, we’re talking to Brooklyn-based painter Christian Rex van Minnen whose immaculate portraits and tableaux are a perfect mix of visual opulence and pretty horror. Today, he shows us the inspiration and process behind RED & GREEN. This painting was started […]
This weekend, popular mythical creature Tilda Swinton re-performed her 1995 piece The Maybe at the MoMA, without making a press announcement. She slept quietly inside a glass, aquarium-like enclosure as visiting crowds swarmed outside. She has been talking about doing this at the MoMA since 2005, before Marina Abramović performed her three-month The Artist Is Present epic. She will be doing unannounced pop-up performances throughout the […]
Charles, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“No, I didn’t. But they’re pretty great.” That’s what artist Tom Sanford told ANIMAL when we noticed a similarity between his fleshy, parodic style (see celebs on a stripper, right) and that of these “controversial” Ford of India ads (see gagged and tied celebs/strippers in trunks, left and center). The rapey Russ Meyer-esque aesthetics of Berlusconi […]
Ryoji Ikeda’s newest stunning project superposition combines his classic hypnotic, pulsating, pure data visualisations with a live, interactive element. Watch as “operators” interrupt his scrolling code and calibrating sine waves with projections of them live-punch-filling vintage forms, surveying heat maps of mysterious geology and solving crossword puzzles. superposition is a project about the way we understand the reality of nature on […]
To kick off the launch of their collaborative spring collection, clothing designers Daryl K and Steven Alan enlisted street artist MARE 139 — with an assist from artist Jimmy Raskin — to paint live over denim at the Steven Alan store on 10th avenue. The apparel and artwork will be auctioned off on eBay (links […]
Since 2011, when we heard about Selena Good-Girl-Tee-Hee-Hee Gomez watching all Harmony Korine’s movies at his house in Nashville and saw James Franco practicing his gangsta cred in some parking lot, we’ve been waiting for this Spring Breakers thing to pop. And it pop pop popped. Yes, of course, I saw the movie last week, and I […]
Jaime, NoHo. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
