Tag: Art
Since Miranda July’s last net-based project kinda pfffted, we knew her latest attempt at topical transmedia looming somewhere ahead. Freshly premiered at the Venice Film Festival, here is the “Somebody” app, commissioned by Miu Miu. Basically, you get strangers with the app to tell your acquaintances things in person instead of you. The app works best when you’re […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 79° LOW 66° Opening in theaters: The Strange Color of Your Tears (at IFC) and Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s anime Patema Inverted, “a perspective-twisting sci-fi adventure about two kids separated by opposite gravities” (at IFC). […]
From Cecilia Azcarate, who brought us that tumblr with rappers that look like 16th Century art, here’s “Ikea b4-XVI” featuring classic pre-1650 artworks by Hieronymus Bosch, Pietro Lorenzetti and other really dead people. Also featuring furniture and home basics that sort of look like stuff you can get at Ikea. That Christ-annunciating angel is all like, “Nice towel, Mary.” And wait, holy shit, […]
There’s a profile of the Onion’s three-person art department on FastCo Design and it just sounds like the best editorial art job in the world, really. An Onion article titled “New Law Enforcement Robot Can Wield Excessive Force Of 5 Human Officers” includes a remarkable bit of artwork, which you can see above: a muscled, armored tank-like robot armed with […]
NECKFACE, a graffiti artist who gained widespread popularity in part due to his easy-to-read work on the street, just released two new prints. The alcohol themed art, entitled “Chase You???” ($200, limited to 200 pieces) and “Are You A Beer???” ($175, limited to 125 pieces), come signed and numbered with certificates of authenticity. They’re both […]
Like a pro, James Frey keeps on diversifying. After A Million Little Pieces, a very successful and very fake nonfiction memoir about his “drug addiction” and “criminal past,” Frey wrote two more international bestsellers and founded a young adult transmedia sweatshop. His latest endeavor brings out his artsy side. In 2012, when he was a co-owner of New York’s Half Gallery, Frey purchased a garden gnome […]
These adorable sysadmin posters dug up by Redditor evandena remind you of all the things you should know. Get a better password. Information is valuable and stuff. Back-up your shit already. Why are we even having this conversation? C:/DOS vintage graphics though, oomph. (Images: Reddit) […]
The art world has seen plenty of blatant depictions of genitals, but never quite like this all together. The very popular Cet obscur objet de désir, autour de l’Origine du Monde exhibit going on now at the Courbet Museum in Ornans, France offers a formidable collection of established masterpieces. Guy Cogeval, the president of the d’Orsay and Orangerie museums, spoke fondly […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 74° LOW 65° In theaters: Kink, a documentary about BDSM fetish franchise Kink.com (with producer James Franco and director Christina Voros in person at IFC), and See You Next Tuesday at […]
German artists Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf, who claimed responsibility for swapping the Brooklyn Bridge’s American flags with flags bleached white, to U.S. officials at the U.S. embassy in Germany. According to CNN, they will be handed over to the NYPD today. The artists maintain that they had no anti-American sentiment in mind with their art project, and merely wanted to bring […]
