Category: Takeover
“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. Veteran indie rocker, photographer, actress and artist Melissa Auf Der Maur has earned her title […]
The U.S. Central Command thinks they’re on to the next viral video sensation — targeted ISIS stations blowing up real good. On Friday, the official @CENTCOM Twitter posted this enticing bit of click-bait: “Have you seen the latest airstrike videos from operations against #ISIL in #Iraq?” The tweet then links to the official CentCom YouTube channel, which […]
Opponents of cannabis legalization are turning to academics with impressive resumes and titles to push the line that cannabis — the drug with not a single known case of deadly overdose — is unsafe and dangerous. Vice has dug into the open secret of conflict of interest and financial disclosures and found that many of […]
Pop star Miley Cyrus has an Instagram account that 12,520,528 people follow. She posts pics of her baby pig, her baby pig sitting on her crotch and her NYFW pink glitter that was totally not a weird rash, #RAVE. Also, peeing in a forest. Also, her art! V Magazine was quick to catch on Miley’s artistic potential, in particular, her assemblages — Miley has been lovingly “obbling together […]
In a disturbingly Orwellian display of double speak, 36-year-old Rosella Best was arrested by the police and charged by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office with a hate crime for equating the NYPD to Nazis. Ms. Best vandalized a police car with “NAZIS=NYPD” along with a 卐, and other messages. When police arrested Ms. Best, she loudly […]
(UPDATED 1PM) Artist Tom Otterness, whose bulbous and unthreatening public art sculptures appear all over the 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway station and many other places in the city, has repeatedly apologized for shooting a shelter dog for an art project in 1977, when he was 25-years-old. He said that it was a “mistake” which caused him […]
It was just before dusk in Central Park on Wednesday night when a woman supporting the horse carriage industry began filming animal rights protestors with her video camera. “You’re vile. You’re vile. She’s vile. She’s vile,” the redheaded woman yelled at specific protestors while she filmed them. “Oh, and it’s a PETA hostess!” The barbs […]
Street artists deploy a variety of methods to get their work seen by the masses. One of these time-honored NYC traditions involves cracking open advertisement kiosks and swapping out the ads with custom art. It’s what put Kaws on the map in the late 1990s and a practice that has been used sporadically since, although […]
Jonas Lund‘s exhibit “Studio Practice” opens in Amsterdam this week, but none of the work is “finished” yet. Instead of making a bunch of stuff and hanging it in a clean white cube, Lund has hired other artists to follow his 300-page guidebook. They’re making objects in the gallery under constant live-streaming surveillance. As each work is completed, a respected fourteen-person panel […]
ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with Ubisoft Montpellier’s Paul Tumelaire and Yoan Fanise about Valiant Hearts: The Great War, an honest game about World War I. Valiant Hearts: The Great […]
