There’s something incredibly appealing about subtle, repetitive, perpetual motion seemingly absent of the human hand, whether it’s a massive mobile by Alexander Calder, a creepy portrait GIF from the Beijing subway, or a porny/arty looping six-second subversion series of a new social media app. Artist Laurent Debraux, whose work was recently on view at the […]
Inspired by Liz Magic Laser’s artistic direction of transparency for the Armory Show, here are our photos of the actual people who go to this prestigious art fair to look at art… sans said art. Please notice how alive John Waters still is. Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the […]
“They don’t have a Stella and we don’t have a Rauschenberg,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan says, as simple as that. Yesterday, the LA institution made a formal proposal for a merger with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angles. Govan says it was MOCA board members’ idea originally, according […]
“Look at me, I’m an eight-year-old child driving… If only Nastya could see me now!” “Don’t worry. We’ll put it on Facebook.” “Gas! More gas! Hit 100kph at least.” Yup. Here’s a little girl from St Petersburg driving Audi, ever accelerating down the wintry road to the brusk encouragements of her dad. But that’s ok, […]
Here’s an epic eight-minute supercut from Leigh Singer of film characters interacting with the audience. There’s a solid narrative feel to this one. Almost every cut feels purposefully placed, like the succession of the original Funny Games followed by the remake. Oh yeah, there are probably spoilers, because movies and such. […]
Mayor Bloomberg has showed his disdain for large sodas, but there are more things that grind Bloomberg’s gears. He thinks movie trailers are the worst. From Bloomberg’s interview with M Magazine: I sat through an hour of trailers, and every one was stupider than the other. And then there were these ads for video games […]
East Village. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Horseback-riding cop is about to write a truck-driver a ticket. Enjoy the anachronism. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This isn’t what one might expect from the teen-gaze aesthetic of Beach House’s usual videos, especially following the recent release of their gorgeous, ethereal short film Forever Still, but… holy shit. Seemingly resulting from a miraculous alignment of the cosmos, Beach House’s just-released music video for their 2012 song Wishes was directed by Eric Wareheim […]
Okay, we know you’re sick of all these articles bemoaning the gentrification of North Brooklyn, but, here’s another one. The average rent of a one-bedroom apartment in Bushwick hit $2,800/month in February 2013, with studios averaging out at $2,400 and 2-bedrooms at $3,000. Compare that to a median monthly rent of $1,815 just a month earlier, […]
