Seva, Tompkins Square Park. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
“You tried, little artist. You tried,” writes the funny person who took this photo of someone’s ill-fated attempt at spray painting a statement on the Manhattan Bridge. (Photo: Petra Gaum/Flickr) […]
In protest of the Obama Administration’s stubborn refusal to grant over-the-counter emergency contraceptive access to people of all ages, a group of reproductive justice advocates will form a flashmob tonight in NYC. Despite a federal court ruling that women under age 17 should have access to morning-after pills, the Administration and the co-opted FDA are going […]
Hear the stories behind Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty and the rest, as an impressive lineup of artists including Cey Adams, Glen E. Friedman, and friend-of-ANIMAL Ricky Powell talk about how their art ended up adorning the Beasties’ albums. Watch above. […]
Last week, we showed you Data Dealer, a free online game that allows you to play as a shady mogul, profiteering from the sale of unsuspecting customers’ private personal information. Today, you get to inhabit a similarly maligned character: the lowly customs and immigration inspector, stamping passports and deciding who gets in and who stays out. But […]
This Friday, some of today’s most exciting photography and video art will be in NYC for the International Center of Photography‘s 2013 Triennial, A Different Kind of Order. The show will focus on works “created in our current moment of widespread economic, social, and political instability” and include 28 international artists who “employ photography, film, video, and interactive […]
Come across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne non-toxic test” in which the NYPD will disperse “harmless, colorless gas” around the five boroughs, […]
No more longwinded labels for Tate Britain’s permanent collection! The museum’s wall texts have previously been criticized and when the new show — “A Walk Through British Art” — opens today, all the works will be left “unexplained.” Not only will the museum stop swaying visitors into interpreting the works in one subjective way or another, they will also do away with […]
ANIMAL presents Stupid Calculations, a new series where practical statistics get rendered into utterly useless ones. Look forward to such topics as orange peels, whales, high-priced escorts, elevators, swimming pools, and tears of joy. Who among you haven’t wondered how many dried tears it would take to fill a salt shaker or how long it […]
Tortured artists and sappy songwriters have long sensed that loneliness is not such a good thing, but now we know for a fact that it is detrimental to your mental and physical well-being. A growing body of research shows that feelings of emotional isolation can literally both make people ill and hasten death. Contrary to what […]
