Tag: Art
A review of today in ANIMAL so far: rap music, art-damaged punk, and vaguely unsettling, abstract video works. Now, for something that combines all three: noise-rap crew Death Grips created this 12-minute, mostly silent film to accompany “Come Up and Get Me,” the leadoff track of their latest album, NO LOVE DEEP WEB. The film’s moody […]
When Art.sy first emerged as a start-up, there were several attention grabbing points, including their Pandora-like Art Genome Project to guide your cruising (and purchasing) experience of 21,000+ artworks from over 4,500 artists, as per your personal taste pegged to 1211+ characteristics (“genes”). And, of course, that name. Such a cute name — “the shortest spellable English language domain that […]
Think you have patience? Watch The Deep End, a new hand-drawn animation from Jake Fried, then get back to me. What must have taken hours upon hours to complete races by in a mere 60 seconds, as eyebrows sprout airplanes and snakes become tongues. Fried lists his materials as ink, white-out, and coffee, though it’s […]
Everyone’s favorite LA-via-Berlin-via-Brooklyn-via-LA art punks will be bringing their signature brand of dissonance and paranoia to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this May. Details on the site-specific performance are relatively scant, but we do know that the band will be taking to the Met’s Temple of Dendur, a reconstructed, 2000-year old Egyptian religious structure–which, for […]
Fractals are only still exciting if you’re a stoned teenager, says Bruce Sterling — cyberpunk hero, sci-fi novelist and active new media commentator. Watch his digital image spike with garish clashes of color as he explains that what you found “mind-blowing and psychedelic” back in the day — because it’s “spiky” with “garish clashes of color” — has […]
Starting January the 9th, you may enjoy the ambient Icelandic sounds of Sigur Rós and the visuals of Ryan McGinley — the New York photographer best known for putting attractive naked crotches next to sparklers and dangerous animals — right there in your taxi! Watch a thinly-dressed girl bouncing in slow-motion through traffic on New York’s most recognizable streets and highways. Her sparkly yellow […]
Let’s play a game. Not that kind. Put your pants back on… What is that contraption called?… Hmm. Now zip ’em and focus. Flip trough this gallery of NYC’s kink community that Danny Ghitis is working on. For his project The Fetlife (Sup, Flavorwire?), Ghitis went beyond photographing various deviants in their natural environments — dungeons and swinger’s clubs and whatnot […]
In Martin Adolfsson’s photos, what looks like a real estate listing or furniture catalog photograph is actually something very different. Adolfsson has been shooting suburban model homes–those prefab facades made famous by Arrested Development–for the past six years, around the world in an effort to “describe the economic and cultural homogenization that is now occurring […]
New York artist Man Bartlett never got to sit with diva Marina Abramović at her MoMA The Artist Is Present performance and look longingly into her eyes and have an awakening and cry and I did but don’t be mad though because… You too can own a piece of Marina! It’s only a penny! No, wait, it’s $120. “It’s somewhere in […]
Well, this is depressing, albeit not surprising. Turns out that when artist Omer Fast and his production crew were working on a drone-related art project and attempted to research said drones, the FBI wasn’t very into it. Not into it at all. In fact, they tracked down the artist’s producer at his home in Los Angeles. Fast […]
