As part of an all-female group show curated by graffiti-trained-artist CLAW, thirty-six women recently customized mini-water towers. Each artist, including CLAW, was given a blank wood-like tower by Boundless Brooklyn, a company that sells DIY models of various objects symbolizing NYC. They were then asked to portray “Whatever feminism means to you.” The scaled-down structures […]
Congratulations! If you’re reading this, then you are a survivor of the human race. Be thankful that Manhattan has not submerged, milk doesn’t cose $12.99 a carton, and gas isn’t $9 a gallon. Because, according to viewer-informed predictions from ABC, all of those things could have happened by June 12, 2015. Newsbusters flagged ABC’s amazing […]
Crystal Moselle’s fascinating documentary The Wolfpack, in theaters today, tells the story of the Angulo family, six brothers and one sister who grew up in a Lower East Side housing project but were kept in almost complete isolation by their messianic, abusive father and psychologically defeated mother. They spent much of their childhoods in almost […]
New York’s homeless are still feeling the effects of the Bloomberg-era elimination of “permanent housing resources for homeless,” finds a new report by the Coalition for Homeless. A record-high number of people used the city’s homeless shelters during the last fiscal year, up 5% from the previous year, at 116,294 people. Homelessness has reached an […]
Lao, Father Demo Square. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
It was only a matter of time before others — like DEBT and Mr. Star City — would start adding to Ron English’s mural on the Houston Bowery Wall, but the latter had no intention of vandalizing it with his work while the former absolutely did. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
David Livingston, the artist best known for wearing various giant fake penises to places like the New Museum and New York State Supreme Court, announced on Wednesday that he’s running for President of the United States of America. Livingston currently serves as Alderman of New Haven, Connecticut’s fictional 31st ward. He’s now using momentum from […]
Civil rights organizations are holding a vigil for Kalief Browder, the 22-year-old Bronx man who committed suicide this past weekend, 2 years after being released from Rikers. The vigil will take place at the Metropolitan Detention Complex on White Street at 6 PM, according to the organization’s Facebook page. Activists and those who want to […]
Two dicks stole packages from the lobby of a Hell’s Kitchen apartment building on Saturday, one of which contained a breast pump meant for Allison Foley, the mother of newborn premature twins. “They’re stealing from two preemie babies, which is just like the lowest of the low,” Foley told CBS2. The thieves were caught on […]
For the past few weeks, math whiz and finance guy-turned-artist Nelson Saiers has been showcasing a series of new work at The Hole Shop without incident, but on Tuesday night serial shit-stirrer and Neoist artist Istvan Kantor disrupted his exhibit. The Hungarian-born Canadian provocateur tagged his signature nom de guerre “Monty Cantsin” on a mattress […]
