Category: Takeover
A funny thing happened recently. Artist, critic and our go-to appropriation expert Greg Allen has turned joke tweets by artist Jayson Musson (and sometimes internet art critic “Hennesy Youngman”) into paintings. Jokes such as, “I think Moby is on the N train rn but you just can’t go asking small bald white men if they’re Moby. That’s racist.” Ha! […]
As the Israel Defense Forces continue its incursion into Gaza, it’s also fighting a PR war through social media. The IDF frequently posts updates on Twitter that include meme-like, propagandist illustrations, according to a left-leaning Jewish website critical of Israel. Mondoweiss.net argues that the illustrative missives are “being used to justify the killing of hundreds […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Shanghai-based artist Kim Laughton talks about his digital work The Physical Possibility Of An Eggplant, inspired by “a bruised white aubergine sitting on a black marble windowsill.” I usually look for inspiration in the world around me. In this […]
Over the last few weeks, KET, Vor138, Rubin415, Bisco Smith and others treated nine5 gallery’s white walls as blank canvases. Last night, ANIMAL joined the party to check out the finished work at the “Group Ink” show. The finished art, dubbed “uncurated, unregulated, and unsellable” by the gallery press release, was a bright congregation of tags and colorful indoor murals. “It’s not […]
“The idea to use the stock market came to me in dreams,” says Claudia Maté. On view now at Brooklyn’s Transfer gallery, the Spanish artist’s first solo show “Sweet Finances!” turns the sterile and often merciless world of finance into data-infused and data-operative objects, installations and videos. “I think data can be beautiful by itself, even if it’s random. That’s why […]
Last week, a billboard advertisement for a parking lot in Chelsea was mysteriously altered with bucket paint and it appears to be the work of public space-altering artist Poster Boy. A video was uploaded to his Flickr on Thursday showing the modification. The advert originally read: “WTF is alternate side of the street parking anyway?” […]
Civil liberties lawyer Normal Siegel has filed a landmark lawsuit in Federal District Court in Manhattan earlier this week on behalf of Debra Goodman, who was arrested “without reason or probably cause” for videotaping officers and emergency medical technicians on the Upper West Side. “This lawsuit seeks to establish First Amendment rights to record police activity,” Siegel tells ANIMAL. […]
Today, New York’s Department of Financial Services has released a proposal [PDF] for a “BitLicense” regulatory framework, becoming the first state to create regulations specifically for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. WHO’S GONNA NEED A LICENSE? Exchanges, online wallet providers, escrow services, and the creators, administrators, and issuers of virtual currency now have to get a license from […]
A new and strange breed of bacteria has been recently discovered by PhD student Annette Rowe. Scientists are already aware of bacteria that can eat “pure energy” — microorganisms like Shewanella and Geobacter that harvest electrons from rocks, metals and, sometimes, battery electrodes manipulated by scientists — but now Rowe has discovered eight new varieties of these bacteria that […]
According to Catey Shaw’s viral-baiting “Brooklyn Girls” video, Brooklyn girls wear “boots in the summer,” “wait for the L train” and “rule the island” of, presumably, Manhattan? They also “break the rules,” as signified by all the dancing that the girl from Virginia is doing in front of the numerous murals in most of the […]
