Category: Takeover
The 47 Republican senators who last week went behind the government’s back to send a letter to Iran’s leadership did not commit treason, but they sure did something really, really dumb. The letter was an attempt to frighten their sworn enemy from entering a critical nuclear deal with the U.S. by warning Iranian leadership that […]
Rosalind, Bushwick. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
ADEK, Tribeca. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Soho’s gallery nine5 has assembled quite an impressive lineup of artists for its latest group show Brand Loyalty, i’m lovin’, featuring work from the likes of Alben, Chad Gordon, Desire Obtain Cherish, Greg Haberny, Ron English, Sket One, WhIsBe and Zevs. The exhibit is a commentary on the ubiquity and idolization of corporate imagery, and […]
“When you first walk in, it was dark as fuck,” says 2ESAE. “And then when we finally found the lights, that’s when the whole place opened up,” SKI finishes. They are describing the abandoned Loew’s Canal Theatre, which they snuck into under the cover of darkness one night in February. Built in the the early […]
“Keanu Reeves just held the door for me,” said ANIMAL’s intern as he arrived today. I darted down the stairs of our Soho building and sure enough, there was Neo, just chilling on his cell phone, smoking a cigarette out on Broadway. He’s rumored to be a courteous subway rider and all-around nice guy, so […]
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is a movie about obsession, isolation, and the extent to which people will go to escape reality. The drama follows Kumiko, masterfully played by Academy Award-nominee Rinko Kikuchi, as she travels from her dreary, lonesome life in Tokyo to Minnesota in search of a briefcase full of money that Steve Buscemi’s […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artists Shane + Kevin talk about their series Have you seen Mr. Brown?, animated gifs created by hand-cut, halftone analogue screens. The profits will go to the family of Mike Brown. As artists, […]
After months of floating around the ISS and getting toyed with by Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, one of the two mosaic tiles created by French street artist Invader for the European Space Agency has been permanently affixed to the Columbus module, the facility’s major laboratory floating 249 miles above the Earth. Early Thursday, Cristoforetti tweeted […]
On Wednesday afternoon, I popped out of the Bowery station and saw a homeless guy standing on Delancey Street with a sign that read, “Tell me off for $2.” I asked the man, who had an odd straw-like cylinder pierced through his nose, if people actually take him on his offer. “You really wanna know?” […]
