ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, artist Lorna Mills takes us from a found object to her piece Double Unicorn. I’m a serial obsessive, so I don’t need to keep a notebook since I only have one thing going on in my head at […]
Kenny Scharf was arrested in Williamsburg in Friday night, Art Sucks reports. According to court info, he was charged with making graffiti, possession of a graffiti instrument, and some other small-time charge, but was released on his own recognizance, meaning he did not have to post bail. Scharf posted the above signature squiggly snake on his Facebook […]
Artist Ryan Gander is entering into the world of fashion, collaborating with Tokyo-based firm A.Four Labs. The British artist has created a starry pattern which will be used to create jackets, scarves, and t-shirts for the upcoming menswear line. The design is a familiar one — it appeared previously in Gander’s work, specifically The Universe as […]
Um. So, yeah. Are you uncomfortable with watching a teenage boy nonchalantly do sex stuff to a variety of naked CGI female-types? Proceed. YES THIS IS NSFW DUH. Here’s Is Tropical’s new video for “Dancing Anymore” directed by MEGAFORCE. Warning: While it is very amusing and socially transgressive, said “sex stuff” gets more and more contorted by modern […]
The latest video remix from the good people of Eclectic Method takes aim at your favorite last action hero-turned-Republican-governor-of-California. I’m not sure if there’s any particular timely reason for taking aim at Arnold, but do you really need an excuse to listen to “I’ll be back” and “It’s not a tumor!” cut and scratched over […]
Starting today, the city is introducing six Nissan Leaf electric cars into its fleet of taxis to test whether the high-efficiency vehicles make suitable cabs. These aren’t the Taxis of Tomorrow, mind you–that program is set to debut later this year–but what Michael Bloomberg calls “the taxi of the day after tomorrow,” as the mayor […]
Al, Greenpoint. (Photo: Aymann Islamil/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The fog last night gave Bushwick Williamsburg Brooklyn some major John Carpenter vibes. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
How did that apology letter get into your New York Post today? Watch the video above. […]
The media circus continues. Reading from what has been widely speculated to be Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev’s Twitter feed, Fox News correspondent Megyn Kelly accidentally rapped the lyrics to Dr. Dre and Eminem’s “Forgot About Dre” on the air today. “This is apparently what was on his mind–I believe that’s a quote of a song–days […]
