Hey, suave art buyer. Do you miss privacy, secrecy and surprise? Here’s a gimmick just for you: At the Lower East Side Oliphaunt, for an annual fee of $1,200, you get a piece of art shipped to your house four times a year and you won’t know what it is until it gets there! You will, […]
In what must be the most frightening news of the day, 57-year-old Long Island dentist Robert Garelick was arrested for reckless endangerment yesterday after conducting a procedure while drunk. Information about the case beyond that is relatively scant, and there are some burning questions I’d like answered. How drunk was he–are we talking two-beer lunch […]
Over the summer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a request for proposals to design, build, and run a building full of 275- to 300-square-foot apartments on East 27th Street. The units are smaller than the city’s regulations currently allow, and would serve as a pilot program for downsized living. “Research has shown that stable, affordable housing can have […]
Tom, Cobble Hill. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
A simple, but effective anti-parking ticket strategy is deployed across the front seats of a car parked in Little Italy. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Oh my God. Hold me. This is beautiful. Let’s all just look at this gorgeous glitch portrait of the New York Germany-based artist Kim Asendorf who works with experimental “generative strategies, physical computing, data and glitch” and tell me how this is less relevant than Turner. Because it’s not. In 2010, Asendorf coined the term “pixel sorting” — an algorithmic image […]
From artists/graphic designers Iain Hector and Jamie Winder, here is Garbage: English In China Junk. It’s art. A short collection of Chinese spam emails, as received and translated through Google Translate. Designed in one day at various locations and printed on a Risograph RZ370, the book reflects both the throw–away nature of spam emails and also the accidental humour […]
The New York Times has got the scoop for you. It turns out that living costs in Manhattan are more expensive than other parts of the country, like, for example, Kansas. This revelation really sucks for Manhattan’s middle class, because now they no longer exist, according to the Times. Rest in peace, middle class. The […]
In the market for some new digs? Check out this 8,200 square foot TriBeCa maisonette, complete with three floors, 19th century adornments, double floor ceilings, factory windows and an original student-era Keith Haring mural. Yep, and it can all be yours — for just $11.75 million. The sprawling mural was painted by Haring in 1978, […]
Recently, American hero Lance Armstrong finally owned up to taking performance enhancing drugs, an explosive tidbit that virtually everyone in the cycling world already suspected, making it the sporty equivalent of OJ admitting murder. In a highly orchestrated PR move for reasons still unknown, the athlete did a face-to-face interview with Oprah and talked about […]
