In an effort to make NYC’s food carts more sanitary and collect some money along the way, Mayor Bloomberg is creating a seven-person, $580,000 squadron to enforce cleanliness laws on the carts and make sure violation fines are paid. Though the Health Department touted the new measure, saying it would protect public health, some vendors […]
Bud, Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Another day, another ritual graffiti removal on Montrose Avenue in Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Athens-based architect firm Oiio has come up with a very ambitious proposal to recreate New York’s Guggenheim in their city. The proposed structure would maintain Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous white spiraling ramps, but with the, er, minor addition of thirteen extra floors. That would make it over three times taller than the original. Don’t worry, […]
William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, Martin Parr, Terry Richardson, and Stephen Shore — under one roof, on one exhibition bill, with all new work. How?! Turns out, it was pretty simple: #swag. Vice has the full interview with curator Ken Miller who organized the show, which opens tomorrow at Aperture Foundation, after Fujifilm approached […]
New Yorkers finally get a say in which voice will alert them when their train is approaching. The much-anticipated Second Avenue Subway won’t be up and running for a few more years, but the ever-democratic MTA is now inviting commuters to vote for the new voice of the T line. Click here to vote for […]
Legendary west coast music outpost Amoeba Music has taken a decidedly modern step in the archiving of their collection of out-of-print and otherwise rare vinyl: digitizing the records and making them available for download to the general public. They’re relatively inexpensive (not free, though–we haven’t yet reached that level of open-source utopia), and the collection […]
Last June, Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary media artist Jonas Lund developed ThePaintshop.biz, a collaborative online platform for creating, buying and selling reasonable algorithm-priced art in real time. Many paintings were made, though not so many were sold–only about three of 3,500. In an effort to reach a wider market, to extend beyond the standard art collector type milieu, he […]
Here’s one of the more awesomely infuriating apps you’ll ever see advertised: Moritz Greiner-Petter’s Tick, which commands your computer’s pointer to do loop-de-loops even when you’re moving your mouse in a straight line. According to Grenier-Petter, the idea is to get people taking stock of the programming that defines much of the ways we live […]
ANIMAL’s original series I Should Have Shot That! asks photographers about that one shot that got away. This week, Ian Cox recalls a perfect moment with FUTURA during the illegal, subterranean Underbelly Project in Paris. I was invited to document the second Underbelly Project, after New York. It’s an illegal project. It’s not sanctioned, so it’s all […]
