Category: Takeover
Coming this year to the New York Park Avenue Armory… Gigantic lines! Hysterical art peoples! Sexual bartering on Craigslist! New York’s most avant garde still-so-hotshot theater director extraordinaire Robert Wilson is back. The US premiere of his opera/collaborative project “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović” — the most famous living performance artist — will take place in the Armory’s drill […]
Established Seattle artist Charles Krafft has been quite successful in the controversial-kitschy ceramics genre. His work has been widely exhibited, collected and Tumblr’ed. He collaborated with Mike Leavitt on Pitchfork Pals — a series of Hitler, Manson and Kim Jong Il teapots. Very popular stuff. Oh, and he’s a bit of a white supremacist. Seattle’s The Stranger refers to some Facebook […]
Roxie, Union Square. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
If you haven’t submitted your 6-second Vine to our Unofficial Vine NC-17 #VeryShortFilmFest, this is your final reminder. You have until midnight tomorrow, Tuesday 2/19, to submit by making video art, porn, porny video art or arty porno video (or something else fun, whatever) by Vining and Tweeting your vid with the hashtag #VeryShortFilmFest or emailing […]
You’re about to watch a group of perfectly average-looking New Yorkers struggle with several rolling bags, interconnected with tubes. Watch them drag their “baggage” into some high traffic intersections and rattle over sidewalk grates. Because [performance] art. Specifically, Movable Carts by Miryana Todorova. Movable Carts’ aims to expand the boundaries of personal space and explores themes […]
We’re not short on New York subway freak-out videos here, but here’s a special gem for your Monday morning, from Russia with love. Or rather, from Russia with VERY, VERY ANGRY. Here’s a gentleman simply trying to use the International Metro Station Stop in St. Petersburg. The only problem is that it’s closed. It’s a […]
Cory, Midtown. (Photo: Jay Shells) […]
With the number of people using Twitter today, it is inevitable that some of those users will die. It’s also inevitable that among the dead, there will be famous people. Jamie Forrest and Michael McWatters understood that and created The Tweet Hereafter, a catalog of last words via Twitter. Some collected final tweets are mundane, but […]
Storefront statues date back to the 1800’s when wooden Cigar Store Indians were used to lure costumers to tobacconist shops. To deal with the illiteracy of the general public, business owners advertised their shops from the sidewalks using life-sized statues. The tradition continues on to this day with many NYC shop owners utilizing the age-old […]
We here at ANIMAL have been a bit taken by this Harlem Shake meme. We even went to Times Square to document the NYPD trying to shut down the biggest ever Harlem Shake. Naturally, one of the first few things that comes to mind is… when’s the porn version coming out? So we called up our […]
