Category: Takeover
Jimmy, Times Square. (Photo: Gabriel Teo) […]
On Tuesday night, the Oxygen Network debuted its new, horribly promoted street art show and unsurprisingly, it was just as bad as the trailers and chatter about it suggested. Look, I get it. You have to dumb things down for television, and for content like this to be successful, it needs to be a caricature […]
“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. This week’s playlist comes to you from Australian indie pop band Dick Diver. […]
Firefighters are still working around the clock to put out the seven-alarm fire that torched a massive Williamsburg warehouse on Saturday morning. When ANIMAL visited the building late Tuesday afternoon, it looked more like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude than a CitiStorage facility that once housed six million cubic feet of medical records and other city […]
Crochet artist London Kaye, who yarn-bombed the L train last year, is still leaving tangled threads of tangled yarn in her wake. The Brooklyn knitter, who has threaded tributes to Breaking Bad, the Olympics, and street art, is now into random acts of kindness. Kaye recently took 1,000 crochet hearts to Union Square on an […]
Tonight the Oxygen Network debuts its terrible new street art-themed show, which was promoted just as terribly. KLOPS is a prolific graffiti artist in New York City who not only writes his name, but also draws characters. He makes legal art, too: Every week, be on the lookout for an original KLOPS comic with the […]
Haim, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After giving the world a look inside the world’s largest Tiffany’s clock and an unauthorized view of Grand Central Terminal, the NYC-based urban explorer who goes by the villainous-sounding Instagram handle Dark Cyanide shows us what it’s like to visit the only part of Times Square that’s worth checking out. The self-professed “thrill seeker and […]
In his new exhibition, “No There There,” Jamie Zigelbaum explores the spaces that simultaneously exist and do not exist. The title of the show comes from a Gertrude Stein quote about visiting her childhood home as an adult. Some took her comment that “there is no there there” in Oakland, California as a kind of […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 37°F LOW 12°F In Theaters: New Russian sci-fi masterpiece Hard To Be A God (highly recommended) and Cannes favorite about radical Islam, Timbuktu. Lost Boy?, Infinity Girl, Pinegrove, […]
