Category: Takeover
Right of Jeff Koons’ ecstatic ejaculate puddle, Cicciolina’s clumped mascara is perfect blue. It’s not blue. It’s more specific than blue, but like the pink pimples on her ass, spread half-hoisted onto his painted dick, it is the perfect color it should be. There are 150 objects in his Whitney retrospective (opening to the public Friday), spanning decades of a […]
“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. Craft Spells sophomore LP, Nausea, was created during a difficult time in songwriter Justin Vallesteros’ […]
Jeff Koons’ Split-Rocker was recently installed at Rockefeller Plaza, in conjunction with his retrospective opening this Friday at the Whitney Museum. Equipped with its own irrigation system, the 150-ton, 37-foot-high stainless steel, soil and geotextile fabric sculpture features over 50,000 plants. We were told to come back by the second week of July when its marigolds, petunias, geraniums, begonias and impatiens are “really in […]
CloudChamber is an online project which takes submitted Soundcloud links and plays them into the Reverberation Chamber at the National Physical Laboratory in London. The sound of your mp3 reverberating against the walls of this chamber is recorded, processed, and re-uploaded to Soundcloud so you can compare it to the original. CloudChamber describes the mechanics […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Crispin talks about Charon — a technically complex year-long project creating a gorgeous sculpture derived from a flight path of a drone. In short, Charon is an interactive installation and sculpture created […]
A new collaborative art space has recently opened in Bushwick. Powrplnt provides free and donation-based digital art workshops open to everyone (ages 13-113), training participants in creative software like Photoshop and Ableton Live while working on projects. Powrplnt founder Angelina Dreem spoke frankly to ANIMAL about their mission, their projects and the gentrification of Brooklyn. Powrplnt’s next exhibit takes place […]
The Welling Court Mural Project entered its fifth year last week. For 2014, more than 80 graffiti and street artists painted over 100 spots. Curated and organized by Ad Hoc Art, it first launched in 2010 as as a way to “slay some aesthetic blights” and continues to expand. With each passing year, more and […]
On Thursday at around 11:00AM, the facade of a commercial building being demolished in Williamsburg partially collapsed, landing on a 32-year-old woman, injuring her. According to eye witnesses, she was taken to Kings County hospital in serious condition. ANIMAL obtained surveillance footage showing the precise moment the wall came crashing down. […]
As of this moment, there have been 21 World Cup matches. Though there are plenty of reasons to hate this corrupt, poor people exploiting, international sporting event in Brazil, this is very exciting stuff to some people, particularly the soccer fans who show up garlanded in patriotic regalia and face-paint, waiting and waiting and waiting […]
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Dir. by Doug Bourne-Movie-Bro Liman, it’s Groundhog Day during an alien invasion and it’s so fantastic and so funny and you’re not watching it because U R SOME HATERS, THIS IS SOME EXHILARATING SHIT TOM CRUISE BEING GOOD AT BEING TOM CRUISE: 5.0 out of 5.0 Sure, Tom Cruise runs in “way that […]
