Infighting between several groups doing hurricane relief work in Red Hook–including Occupy Sandy and Occupy Red Hook–has caused several workers to abandon the cause in protest. The dispute appears to involve the surprising level of cooperation Occupy groups in the area have had with the NYPD, NYCHA, and the offices of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and […]
Rip, Midtown. (Photo: Irina Dvalidze/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The Steeplechase Face repurposed for retail in Coney Island and looking creepier than ever. (Photo: agent j loves nyc/Flickr) […]
Photographers Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman use Twitter as a location scout for their haunting, beautiful images. The two artists scan the social network for tweets with location information embedded but no picture, head to those locations to shoot, then caption each photograph with the tweet’s original text. If the photographs weren’t so good, the concept […]
Last year, we caught a glimpse of Christmas trees hanging under the BQE in Brooklyn and found it intriguing. The installation was created by artist Michael Neff and for 2013, he went even bigger. He also gave us some background on the unsanctioned project, telling ANIMAL: After December 25th, New York sidewalks are crowded with […]
Sign of the Times is a recurring segment in which we head to Times Square and ask the people there what they think about current events. Since Colorado and Washington passed pro-pot laws in November, the issue of weed legalization in the US has sparked up yet again. On one side we have countries in […]
When Uriel Landeros walked up to Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil museum in Houston and spray-painted a stencil of a bullfighter killing a bull and a muddled “conquista” (“to conquer”) message for the people we were like… ok, whatever. Then he got a hyped art show and we was like… meh, because the art […]
German Designer Aslan Malik created this badass line of dollar bills beautified with some of DC’s greatest heroes–Ben Franklin becomes the Green Lantern, Abe Lincoln is the Flash, Andrew Jackson makes quite a fetching Wonder Woman, et cetera. Next I want to see Aztek on a Peso and Super-Chief on a Buffalo Nickel. Check out […]
“If anyone lays his hand on me, I’ll cut it off,” starts the trailer for Cairo 678, a film that seems very timely and yet, very late. Follow the lives of three Cairene women who experience and finally confront sexual harassment — and frankly, assault — in their daily lives and how these real-life-based incidents led to Egypt’s first anti-harassment […]
On Tuesday afternoon, Deadspin reported on a hawk that was perched outside their Manhattan office. It was spotted on the fire escape of Soho rodent farm and hip hotel the Bowery House, lazily stalking a veritable rat army below that was parading back and forth, practically begging to be eaten: There were rats running everywhere […]
