NYPD helicopters fly in formation for Ed Koch (RIP), a once popular mayor who elected officials are now hoping to rename every part of the city after. (Photo: Joe Schumacher/Flickr) […]
Ooh. This is better than the last new Nick Cave video — the shadow-strolls-through-forest-moodily that Gaspar Noé’s directed. Sorry, Noé. Heart you. From the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 15th album Push the Sky Away (yes, you can pre-order), featuring Ray Winstone, here is the “Jubilee Street” music video directed by John Hillcoat. Hillcoat directed The Proposition, which was awesome/written […]
Emerging mixed-media artist Jeremiah Johnson (not this one) will present his solo exhibit Never Enough in Chelsea this month, making his NYC debut. He was raised on a fruit and flower farm (awwww) in a region of Pennsylvania that has recently fallen victim to the Fracking Industry, something that has deeply influenced his art. Johnson […]
When Russian volcano Plosky Tolbachik erupted in November, a team from the non-profit photo project AirPano dropped everything and flew a helicopter over Kamchatka to film the dangerous spectacle. You have two very safe ways to enjoy this: This mind-blowing 360-degree interactive panorama and this totally wild interactive helicopter ride — you get to “control” the camera while exploring the otherworldly […]
Groan. THAT IS NOT ART. But look at those visitors of Tate Modern and the Saatichi Gallery, look at ’em taking photos and videos of the awkardly posed duo Doug and Mikael holding ping-pongs in their mouths. They fell for it. Because… I don’t know… because Marina Abramović? If this was performance art, it would have been bad […]
It’s hard to imagine whether Charles Bukowski — king of self-deprecation and misanthropy — would approve of some young hotshot designer’s visual renditions of his writing. If he were alive to see these surpassingly sleek but fitting cover designs for several Italian translations of his work, would the Dirty Old Man invite illustrator Emiliano Ponzi over for […]
Being shot into outer space seems to be the new fad for 2013. Coco Brown, a porn star, announced her intent to voyage into outer space in 2014 as part of a private Dutch expedition. A couple days later, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, claimed that he will volunteer as the first person sent into […]
ANIMAL recently headed to Le Poisson Rouge to take in Red Bull’s Thre3style DJ competition, and chatted with first-place DJ Zeke and emcee DStroy about hip-hop culture, the makings of a good set, and the best DJs in the city. “A lot of people get trapped in a box,” said Zeke, who’s worked with Kendrick […]
When in Vienna, strip down and go art-ing. Seriously. The Leopold Museum in Vienna has announced that it is opening doors after public hours to the “Nackte Männer” (male nude) exhibition for visitors to explore in the nude, Artnet reports. “We thought about it,” says a spokesperson for the Museum, “and decided it would be […]
SmackMellon — one of the venues hit hardes by Hurricane Sandy — is back! The DUMBO art gallery features a new installation by artist Aude Moreau who created a Persian carpet covered in intricate, floral designs made from sugar. Two tons of sugar. Behold, Sugar Carpet. There’s nothing stopping visitors from messing up the hard work […]
