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May 13, 2015 Bucky Turco

Over the weekend, the August Martin High School in Jamaica, Queens was transformed into a massive graffiti gallery when over 100 artists such as MERES, CUBA, CYCLE, JERMS, Phetus, POET, YES1, CLAW, Cernesto, KING BEE, Plasma Slug, T-KID, AMUZE, SHIRO, and so many others descended on the massive building and spray painted their work directly […]

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Bucky Turco

Falco, Jamaica. (Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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May 12, 2015 Prachi Gupta

SNOEMAN in Harlem. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Prachi Gupta

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Over two decades after the last Storm Rave, Frankie Bones, progenitor of the […]

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Bucky Turco

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, more commonly known as MDMA, is a psychoactive drug that makes dancing to house music extra fun. Patented by a German company in 1912 and rediscovered by hip chemists over fifty years later, it was popularized in the form of cooly-branded ecstasy pills by the pioneering club kids of the ‘80s and ‘90s and […]

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Bucky Turco

Bruce, Astor Place. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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May 11, 2015 Liam Mathews

Don’t go into Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop looking for answers about whether or not Gilberto Valle, the so-called “Cannibal Cop” (whose lurid fantasies about kidnapping, killing, and eating women transfixed and horrified the world) is guilty. It’s not that kind of movie. Instead, the documentary, which premieres Monday night on HBO, […]

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Bucky Turco

Farrah, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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May 8, 2015 Aymann Ismail

Artist Kenny Scharf creatively touched up some his work on the Lower East Side that was ragged by graffiti writers. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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Liam Mathews

A piece of wood fell off a Soho building and struck a woman on the head as she walked down the street Friday afternoon. The accident occurred just after 1 PM in front of 580 Broadway, the building that houses ANIMAL’s office. UPDATE: An FDNY spokesman told ANIMAL that he didn’t know what hit the […]

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