Known as the Warhol superstar, beloved as a poet and LES legend, 88-year-old Taylor Mead is leaving the city. The Anthology Film Archives moved up his talk before the screening of Cleopatra with Nico from the weekend to last night to accomodate his scheduled departure. If you hadn’t caught him, you won’t see him for awhile. You won’t hear recite […]
Nik, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
The demolition clock is ticking for 5 Pointz and according to one art group, they must leave by August. (Photo: Thomas Hawk/Flickr) […]
Yesterday, an ad backed by a coalition of liberal groups that paints City Council Speaker and mayoral candidate Christine Quinn as duplicitous and with ties to big business premiered on NY1, MSNBC, and Cablevision. Today, an outraged Quinn decried the attack ad as false, and her legal team contacted Time Warner Cable to have the ads […]
I tried to steal art this weekend. All of my friends assured me jail time was an option. “Har har, you’re gonna get arrested!” Look. I just wanted to prove a point by stealing some art. Artists can get away with all sorts of criminal actions just by calling it Art with a capital “A.” […]
The Knife have been uncharacteristically forthcoming in recent months: dropping the masks, giving long-ranging interviews, “explaining” their intentions in a manifesto. Today, they released “The Interview,” a short film by Marit Östberg (who also directed the “Full of Fire” video), in which they lay out their intentions with new album Shaking the Habitual a little more […]
Here’s a fun little game that’s backed by SCIENCE! Recent studies suggest that certain aspects of your personality and future health can be predicted by your finger length — the “digit ratio” of your ring and index fingers, specifically. While doctors aren’t making diagnosis’ based on finger length just yet, scientists have found some fairly […]
Artist ads aren’t new — what’s up, Chris Burden? — but self-described art “villain” Nate Hill is doing it in one of the most effective, unconventional ways I’ve seen in quite some time. Think about it, what’s the most popular thing on the internet aside from cats? Porn! Whenever naked ladies are attached to something, people suddenly seem become more […]
Woah. This is an ongoing photo series “Neon Luminance” by Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard of San Francisco’s From the Lenz. The pair strategically dropped Cyalume glow sticks in several moon-lit waterfalls throughout Northern California and captured the mesmerizing light trails using long exposure. The result: glorious fairy-rave fantasy dreamscapes. At times, the duo tied multiple glow […]
ANIMAL is proud to welcome our new contributor Daniel Kolitz. You may have ROFLed at his renowned Printed Internet Tumblr featuring Kickstarter During the Great Depression: Very Tiny Coffin for My Firstborn Son, BREAKING: I, ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, CAN LITERALLY NOT BELIEVE HOW DRINK I AM RIGHT NOW and more. Welcome to the Printed Internet, now on ANIMAL. How’s your Klout score? […]
