Category: Takeover
Members of TWU Local 100 were passing out “Metro(death)Cards” today to raise awareness of their campaign to slow down trains pulling into stations. The MTA opposes the union’s “slow-down plan,” but with subway death tolls the highest since 2007, how is this even a debate? Here’s ANIMAL’s interview with a union rep outside City Hall. (Video: […]
The Vine app has recently launched — allowing users to easily shoot and share six second video clips, effortlessly. Naturally, it’s been flooded with babies, puppies, penises and food. And penises. Also, boobs. The NSFW vines can be easily located and so, yesterday, the app slapped itself with an NC-17 rating, oooooh. And so, ANIMAL is proud […]
In an effort to bring more citizen oversight to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, the New York Civil Liberties Union has brought its innovative Stop and Frisk Watch mobile app to the iPhone. Using the app, New Yorkers can take video recordings of any stop they witness (not when they’re being stopped themselves–relax, NYP), then […]
Increasingly, more and more auction houses are becoming receptive to selling work by street artists, but they usually do so by folding a few lots into their contemporary art sales. But not at Doyle New York. They let the street art genre stand on its own and for their inaugural auction last October, 70 percent […]
Oh, look, Lee Hardcastle made a music video. From the claymation extraordinaire who brought us Evil Dead II with cats, here is “BLVCK MVGIC” from Kill The Noise. It’s horrifying. No, really. There’s face slicing, gut carving, crucifixions, “witch” burnings and an ironic ending. Ironic as in HORRIFYING. This is the exploitation grindhouse level of violent. I’m sorry. But […]
Cyprus, Brooklyn Heights. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The sound filled the Clocktower Gallery hallway — a thick, thunderous gnaw. Echoing under the blinking lights, a distorted strum… and again, a bit different… and again… “My name is Indriði and I put up this perpetual machine,” young Icelandic artist Indriði Arnar Ingólfsson tells ANIMAL in our video interview above. We found Guitar Play in one of the […]
Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg’s 25-by-75-foot billboard You & Me was recently revealed at 18th Street by Friends of the High Line. The bold text and bright colors remind of 1960s poster art and concert flyers, which is right about when Ruppersberg began exhibiting in LA. It’s no Maurizio Cattelan’s severed fingers or David Shrigley’s excruciating internal […]
We’ve all snuck photos of fellow subway commuters, but photographer Rebecca Davis went beyond your pedestrian Instagram snap. She calls her project New York Underground “an update” to Walker Evans’ Many Are Called. Davis turned some of her work into this narrative short that plays out like a photo flip-book of interactions. Some sequences of nuances are fantastic. […]
Artist Jay Shells — who our readers know from putting up uncanny “subway etiquette,” telling the cops to clean up after their horses and gloriously punking Fox News — is getting married, yey! His proposal was perfectly appropriate: “RACHEL WILL YOU MARRY ME?” in five graffitied rooftops on the Upper East Side. “I was definitely going to paint the proposal […]
