ANIMAL loves hot new video art. This Tuesday, we’re throwing a party with SDR PRSNTS at the D-L, because why not. So, what is this? G1RLZ NI†E is a dance + video art party celebrating fresh video art by local artists. It’s a shamelessly feminine pop-up art experience co-opting a club aesthetic. Come see selfie and net-based works […]
Sometimes science is great, sometimes it is not so great. Case in point: according to a study published yesterday, a team of researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have developed a way to user breathalyzer-like technology to test for the presence of 12 different drugs, including cocaine, amphetamines, and yes, cannabis. As Smithsonian points out, “it’s […]
In collaboration with the New Museum Ideas City Festival, gallery nine5 will host “Surge Protection,” a solo exhibition from Pop Realist Steve Ellis. Inspired by “renewable energy sources” and education through art, Ellis’ new paintings have a somewhat dystopian feel, depicting urban fables through “ripped magazines, disposable lighters, nesting birds, and a broken snow globe.” The […]
The Style Management Taxi Company in Hell’s Kitchen is the lucky recipient of two of the six shiny new all-electric Nissan Leafs that are being interjected into the city’s taxi fleet. The pilot program is the latest attempt by the Taxi and Limousine Commission to put more fuel efficient cabs on the streets. “It’s exciting […]
No, not that Death. This Death. The seminal pre-punk punk band from Detroit, formed in 1971, didn’t receive proper recognition until the 2000s, and now, they’re getting a fantastic looking documentary tribute. Alice Cooper and Henry Rollins both show up to pay tribute in the trailer, but the most magical moment comes when the son […]
This week has been a busy one for ANIMAL, so I had to shoot something quick and dirty for this week’s “Zoom In.” With the help of the same hacked lens that I used to shoot street food and Times Square, here are a few macro-photos of things I found in the garbage can outside our […]
The Jogging’s group show at the commercial printing space Baboo may have seemed like a joke at first, but instead it serves as proof that some artists are able to make smart work under any circumstances. The Jogging is a loose group of contemporary artists including Brad Troemel — a collective that brought us vacuum sealed JAMES FRANCO […]
Isn’t 3D-printing nifty as hell? Soon, we’ll be 3D-printing on the atomic level. Artist Shane Hope foreshadows hacking organic matter with his series “Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs,” “Qubit-Built Quilts,” “Post-Scarcity Percept-Pus Portraits” and “Scriptable-Scalable Species-Tool-Beings.” Using molecular modeling research software, crafts custom code and algorithms, Hope creaties sculptural canvases of erupted, scrambled, bubbling atomic structures. Some look like tumorous day-glo Rothkos. A standout: The bursting Malevich square-type. […]
Upon seeing NASA’s glorious Mars penis for the first time, I attempted to get to the bottom of the mysterious member. Was the “drawing” an intentional joke, or a happy accident? Which Mars rover left the tracks? Would the space agency care to comment? After two emails to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab were shot back […]
Brooklyn-based artist and designer Michael J. Silber created Kaleidopope, which is exactly what you think it is. From Francis and Benedict on back, the Kaleidopope takes generation upon generation of His Tripiness and sends them into an abstracted swirl. Here’s what Silber has to say: KaleidoPope is an hypnotic interactive kaleidoscope. I composed a photo […]
