Months after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York City, the neighborhood surrounding Lower Manhattan’s South Street Seaport is still struggling to get on its feet. Eighty-five percent of small businesses in the area remain closed and boarded up. Many have damaged electrical and internet wiring, and some owners are unsure whether they’ll ever be able to […]
ANIMAL loves F.A.T. artists so much, you know? But here’s F.A.T.’s street artist Katsu braggingabout tagging in Minecraft, all like “The future of graffiti for me will be in the form of black hat tactics” and “MINECRAFT offers me a way to connect with my untainted inner youth and create expressions of criminal activity without the police […]
Michelle, Manhattan. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
Burn out fluorescents bring all new meaning to Pasta Vino’s signage in Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
New York-based graphic designer Zhang Qingyun has created a curious and brilliant case study of YOU ON THE INTERNET. For his piece at the “Processed” exhibition at Center 548 in Chelsea, he set up two displays: (1) 50 captions culled from personal Facebook messages, gchats and tweets and (2) correlating Google Image results. Then he let the […]
After decades of putting work on the streets (for free), Bronx-born graffiti bomber COPE2 continues his pursuit of a more legal career by selling his art (for money). This past weekend, a new exhibit of his work opened at Gallery 69 in Tribeca. The solo show, entitled “Hypnotic,” is comprised of painted canvases, with all […]
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja and documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis are collaborating on six performances in September, blending the music of the English group with film that weaves “arresting stories of politics and power over the past 30 years.” It’s sure to be one of most sensory-overloading experiences of the 2013 Park Avenue Armory season. […]
Once upon a time in the long long ago, record sales and terrestrial radio play were the only things that mattered for charting the performance of a particular single–if a song sold well and got radio play (and the two usually go hand-in-hand), it charted. If it didn’t, it didn’t. Then came the internet, and […]
Hey, sexy internet. Thank you for all your amazing submissions to the… We here at ANIMAL’s #VeryShortFilmFest have had a great time exploring Vine as a social and artistic platform, without asking their permission. We liked those arty and/or XXX-ish 6-minute videos you made. Our awesome judges — Stoya, Casey Neistat, Clayton Cubitt, Nate “Igor” Smith and Zoetica Ebb — […]
Start-up TaxiTreats has a nifty scheme: by this summer, select NYC taxis will be equipped with “Vengo” — the vending machine that sells everything from gum to lotions to… condoms. The proposed machines will accept credit cards and will operate via touch screen. Er, don’t worry, Vengo will also offer hand sanitizer. While the company has yet […]
