Category: Takeover
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. For this edition, Meryl Bennett shows us how she made her “Melting Statues” out of old trophies and candle wax. When it comes to my creative process I tend not to plan all that much. […]
Quaalude (“kway-lewd”) or methaqualone (“meth-uh-kway-loan”), is something most people are only familiar with from movies and the news. It’s back in the spotlight because Bill Cosby, as part of an on-going rape scandal, admitted in a deposition to date raping a woman with them. The drug is an infamous downer, a powerful one, a highly […]
Apoc, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
For months, street artist Flood has been telling Bill Cosby to “just admit it,” which he did, in court, in 2005, but it took an Associated Press lawsuit to make it public. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Women and activists fighting against internet censorship have found a clever new way to expose the double standard of Instagram’s nudity policies: superimpose the innocuous male nipple over those inappropriate female ones. Over the past week, social media users have been adopting the template created by artist Micol Hebron last June. It has been shared […]
Every comedian has jokes that he or she believes didn’t get the laughs they deserved or tweets that didn’t get enough faves. Defending the Bomb gives a comedian the opportunity to explain one of these failed jokes and make the case for why it’s actually funny. Aparna Nancherla has a very unique point-of-view. No one […]
Hunter, Tribeca. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
What’s left of an old COST, SMELLS, & SET wheat-paste in Tribeca. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Thiago, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s what the Macy’s fireworks (and some illegal local ones), looked like from Morningside Heights at 110th and Broadway, a great staging ground for NYC photography. (Photo: Scott Matthews) […]