Category: Takeover
Wednesday afternoon marks the final 24 hours of a now-viral Kickstarter campaign to erect a museum for figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in a Brooklyn apartment hallway. With the modest goal of $75 having been met and far surpassed, the museum is already underway. The museum’s proprietors are Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen, […]
For the past three years, Jennifer Maravillas has been strategically wandering through the streets of Brooklyn, picking up garbage — for art. Her project, titled “71 Square Miles,” consists of a 10×10 foot map of the borough wherein each block is represented by trash she found on it. And to her delight, it’s finally done. […]
Diclazepam, clonazolam, flubromazelam are three new designer benzodiazepines drugs that have the five classic benzo properties — they are sedative, hypnotic, anxiolytic, muscle relaxant and anticonvulsant. To translate into normal speak: Benzos will make you chill, take a nap, stop worrying, loosen up, and — if you happen to be seizing — end your seizure. […]
In 1967, the Yippies tried to levitate the Pentagon as an act of protest against the Vietnam War. The levitation itself was unsuccessful, but it did result in Norman Mailer’s classic book The Armies of the Night. On Tuesday, inspired by the Yippies, musical collective Talibam! attempted to levitate Vice Media’s office off its foundation […]
“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. Brooklyn-based rock band Highly Suspect is gearing up to release its debut album […]
Although she’s over 9,000 miles away, Sydney-based artist Karen Farmer has a close connection to New York. For the past few months, she has been getting requests by some of the city’s most notable graffiti writers to paint portraits of them painting graffiti. Farmer’s Instagram is peppered with her photorealistic renderings of EASY, DUEL, SEV […]
Aubrey, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This is what $4 billion gets you in Lower Manhattan. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Cody Wilson is well-known for stirring controversy. He masterminded the 3D-printed gun prototype that ruffled feathers. He now works on Dark Wallet, which could make tracking bitcoin transactions a lot harder for regulators. Most recently, the self-proclaimed crypto-anarchist tried to take down bitcoin’s leading non-profit, the Bitcoin Foundation. Bitcoin is, of course, a new technology […]
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. ANIMAL snuck into the still-unfinished project by architect Santiago Calatrava to document progress at the lavish, controversial infrastructure that’s been blasted by critics and bungled by Michael Bloomberg. This morning, a Port Authority spokesperson said the hub will be […]
