Category: Takeover
Opening tonight at the Waterfront Tunnel event space in Chelsea is the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, featuring installations by over 30 exhibitors including Eva and Franco Mattes‘ haunting, critically acclaimed Emily’s Video. Other notable works on view are Zhao Zhao’s serene, ambiguity-laden I Cannot Sleep Sadly by Your Side, Cathy Begien’s deadpan party-night narrative Black Out […]
Next week, we’re throwing an event to help keep Essam out of jail! Remember Essam? He’s the artist who got the NYPD all worked up when he started posting signs critical of drones all around New York City. ANIMAL presents Free ESSAM! There will be live music and an open bar. Hosted by rock photographer […]
Shut up, internet. Didn’t you learn anything from the Banksy arrest hoax? About 22 hours ago, a clearly fake news website the National Report announced that legendary cult filmaker and known arts person John Waters “dropped dead at 67” in the morning. That’s funny. He must have recovered quickly, because we totally saw him at 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. This week we’re being super timely, looking at Ciara’s “Body Party,” which shares musical DNA with the Diplomats’ “I Wanna Be Your Lady.” Both songs sample Ghost Town DJ’s […]
Vine is a pretty amazing platform, but its youth still shows: though plenty of filmmakers, comedians, and various other content-creators are populating the social network with great six-second clips, its unrefined exploratory tools can make finding the good stuff difficult. That’s where ANIMAL comes in. We’ve spent a lot of time with Vine, and along […]
“Will you pose for me?” F.A.T. artists Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia ask, directing the adult performers, adjusting them until they get the desired pose on their live xxx webcam feed until they pose in hommage of Egon Schiele, Modigliani, Botticelli… What if adult performers—already mediated sex objects—struck ‘classic’ poses? Watch Webcam Venus [NSFW] in action above. The work brilliantly accentuates and blurs […]
Artist Andrew Ohanesian has installed Urinal into the side of the Pierogi Gallery booth at the Armory Show, without asking permission from the art fair. It previews today. Yes, it’s actually a urinal. Gallerists Joseph Amrhein and Susan Swenson assure ARTINFO’s Benjamin Sutton: it’s the most standard, “ubiquitous” kind of urinal they could find. Unlike Duchamp’s vintage model, this […]
At 11:45 Monday morning, a friend of ANIMAL art editor Marina Galperina sent her a GChat message saying that he’d seen a drone flying over East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “Maybe 10 foot wingspan. Probably 200 ft in the air. Not high, though it wasn’t armed with missiles or a visible camera,” Rhett Jones wrote. “I thought […]
When he’s not leading the arrest of teenage “laser hooligans,” or dismissing frequent accusations of “rampant human rights abuses and runaway corruption,” Ramzan Kadyrov, hard-partying leader of the war-torn Chechen republic, can be found snapping selfies. The 36-year-old dictator has recently amassed over 50,000 followers on Instagram and posts several photos a day. It’s not […]
It’s perplexing enough that Charmin’s commercials revolve around adorable, innocent bears shitting all the time. But their social media presence is essentially the same way, too. Charmin’s Facebook page and Twitter account talk about poop, a lot. It’s not surprising though, considering that, duh, they’re a toilet paper company, but the detail is a little…unexpected. […]
