In 2011, 26-year-old Robert Bell was leaving the Slaughtered Lamb Pub on West 4th Street when he saw a few NYPD officers walking by and decided to give them the middle finger behind their backs. When another cop saw Bell do the dirty deed, he arrested Bell and held him at the 6th Precinct for […]
Eric, Flatiron District. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
This Hasidic man keeps his hat dry in the rain today, but it’s not enough to keep him from frowning. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Seriously, how does James Franco find the time for all this stuff? Apparently his sixteen forthcoming feature films (three of which he is directing) just aren’t enough to save the actor/artist/intellectual/teddy-bear-killer from the throes of boredom, so is also collaborating with 7 For All Mankind to direct a short, interactive, promotional art film. “A Beautiful […]
Sure that’s technically the video for Remy Banks and Bodega Bamz’s infectious new single “GLDCHN,” but the real star of the show is a fictional character: Greg Wilcockson, the portly fellow above. The concept of the video is that Wilcockson is a rap addict, for whom hip-hop is what spinach is to Popeye: a shot to […]
Lee Hardcastle, claymation genius, has created “a trailer” for A Good Day to Die Hard, the latest Die Hard movie. A Good Clay to Die Hard features all the violence and explosions you’d see in the actual movie, but better because there’s a “John McClay” shooting Tetris block bombs with an assault rifle and a matryoshka doll getting […]
An exhibit at L.A.’s Subliminal Projects gallery will showcase the art of dancehall reggae, from 1979 to the present. Entitled “Art in the Dancehall,” the show includes album covers from the likes of Yellowman and Josey Wales, Gregory Isaacs, and Jah Shaka, as well as dancehall-inspired art and posters from artists and designers like Tony McDermott, Sassafras, and […]
This morning, every art media outlet ever descended upon New Museum’s much-hyped “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” exhibit preview. Yes, like the Sonic Youth album. Sonic Youth is very 1993. Attempting to seriously critique an exhibit like this somewhat echoes the challenges of curating it (except for the curating part): How does one express, encompass, […]
Freemasons have always had a bit of an image problem. Apparently, a clandestine fraternal order that counts world leaders among its ranks and which engages in secret occult rituals makes everyday Joes and Janes suspicious. So, over the past few decades, many Masonic organizations have tried to change the public’s perception of their mysterious group […]
In 2008, Parisian artist/nightclub owner André Saraiva was commissioned for an outdoor mural on the Galerie Enrico Navarra, and chose an unsubtle message to send: I Don’t Give A Fuck, in all caps and his signature hot pink hue. A new video–hilariously released five years after the fact–documents the deed, complete with André taking off […]
