Category: Takeover
Here’s an absolutely insane video of a car riding on its front axle, tearing up the street beneath it, and leaving the scent of burning rubber and metal in its wake. It looks straight out of a Need for Speed blooper reel, but was shot on the streets of Newark and sent to ANIMAL by […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, newly Brooklyn-based artist Jacob Ciocci, a multi-media artist, formerly Paper Rad and now working with Extreme Animals. Here he talks about his video album, “The Urgency.” “THE URGENCY” started as 6 to 8 new compositions by Extreme […]
You would think that when you’re sitting on top of the Williamsburg Bridge, looking down at the lights of New York City, the view of the skyline is overwhelming. And it is, but when I was up there, I was far more taken by the enormity of the century-old bulk I had just climbed. I […]
Grayson, Soho. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Don’t eat city veggies: Tabloid says NYC gardens are essentially growing lead. Kind of related: “Rare Ferns: Thriving in Fumes and Grime” Respect your elders and don’t ever do this. The New York Daily News: “A federal judge is making it rain at one Midtown strip club by awarding more than $10 million to dancers.” […]
The New York Post ran a cover story that purported to show a heroic Syrian boy saving a girl, but it was completely staged, continuing a proud tradition at the tabloid of running fake stories on its front pages. Brooklyn’s most expensive home is for sale and no one reading this site can afford it. […]
Graffiti artist JIM JOE recreated some classic New York imagery on an abandoned gas station in East Village for all the public to enjoy. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The lineup for the New Museum’s Triennial survey of early-career artists was announced on Friday. Curated by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin, this iteration is titled “Surround Audience.” The selection isn’t too surprising for anyone familiar with the two curators’ previous work, but the number of great artists is impressive. As a multi-disciplinarian artist, Trecartin […]
A collection of limited edition prints by icon Keith Haring, the artist behind the world-famous 1986 Crack Is Wack mural and countless other pieces, is on display at Pace Prints Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition, which features works from 1978 until Haring’s untimely death in 1990, opens Friday and will be on view until December […]
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 45°F LOW 34°F In theaters: Comedians get dramatic as Steve Carell stars in Foxcatcher and Jon Stewart gets makes his directorial debut with Rosewater. Acclaimed Soviet […]
