Category: Takeover
Even if you’re not familiar with the Shirt Kings, chances are that you’ve heard of them before in a rap lyric, or seen their work in outfits donned by the likes of LL Cool J, Jay Z, RZA and Jam Master Jay (RIP). The legendary graffiti-inspired art crew from New York pioneered early hip hop […]
Rocky, Harlem. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A new street art campaign is being rolled out in Manhattan, but in a refreshing break from the norm, it isn’t for a brand peddling a crappy product under a banner of cool. Instead, the mural series is being commissioned by the National Audubon Society to bring awareness to the hundreds of species of North […]
“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 we have a playlist from Brooklyn-based band The Church Committee. The band has brought […]
On Monday, ANIMAL published a firsthand account of what it’s like to climb the Williamsburg Bridge, a risky but age-old tradition that New Yorkers have been partaking in since the before the structure was officially opened. In present day, urban explorers and some adventurous tourists caught scaling bridges face trespassing charges. If caught over a […]
Ded, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Artist Ole Fach has a pretty amazing little net art riff on old school Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich. GOOGLEMATISM recreates the strong basic shapes and popping colors of the legendary painter by searching Google Images for matches that resemble the components of the painting. Suprematism was a school of painting that focused on very strong, basic shapes […]
Art shows in Bushwick tend to be one of three types: They either fall into the regurgitated abstract painting/stuff-made-out-of-junk category, the every-once-in-a-while progressive and engaging category, or the free-for-all, “we’re just having fun,” category. Secret Project Robot’s “Headshop” definitively falls into that last designation. But by no means should that be considered second, or even […]
August, East Village. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Tonight, HBO airs Banksy Does New York, a documentary directed by Chris Moukarbel that details the British prankster’s epic 31-day residency on the streets of the city. But don’t let the name fool you — the theme of this user-generated film (which ANIMAL contributed footage to) is not street art, it’s gentrification. Throughout the documentary, […]
