Tag: Art
Yesterday, ANIMAL stopped by to preview a massive, building-wide group show at the former 21st Precinct, a few blocks from Gramercy Park. Curated by Outlaw Arts, murals, tags, wheatpaste, stickers and installations filled all four floors of the building, including the stairwells and bathrooms, showcasing some incredible work. Standouts included work from ANIMAL favorites such as GIZ, […]
Since 2011, Jim “Mosaic Man” Power has been fighting the mass pedestrian-friendly reconstruction project at Astor Place and this week, he has once again destroyed one of his signature works in protest, DNAinfo reports. For three decades, Power adorned New York lampposts with mosaic tile designs, and for several years he had been posting distressed messages on […]
Russian-born Berlin-based 26-year-old performance artist Mischa Badasyan will have sex with a different man every day for a year, starting this September. He is influenced, in part, by the writing of French philosopher Marc Auge on “non-places.” As Badasyan explained to VocaTV: He was writing about non-places in the big cities; places like supermarkets, shopping malls, airports, […]
“Not Nothing,” a new book on artist Ray Johnson — friend to Andy Warhol, John Cage and others — expands the context for his under-appreciated work. Johnson was a man of many mediums — collage, performance art and “mail art.” (Image Courtesy Siglio Press) Johnson had started the New York Correspondance School and held meetings for fellow mail artists, whose interactive […]
Looks like Reverend Bud Green was full of shit. German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke came forward to the New York Times from Berlin, claiming that they took down the two American flags and replaced them with two flags bleached white last month. The artists are established trespassers and explorers who “investigate the boundaries of public space in urban environment through different […]
The new course list is out! The mostly anonymous Bruce High Quality Foundation shifted focus to the Bruce High Quality Foundation University this summer, providing free seminar-style courses in art and criticism. This Fall, the courses include Painting Critique (“slow, dense and intimate, we are going to say yes, and… to just about everything, as we slog through each […]
The HyperLip attachment by French designer Sascha Nordmeyer goes into your mouth. It stretches your mouth. The “rigid food-safe apparatus” is bright red and asymmetrical. It’s shaped like a mouth. It will make you look “smart in every circumstance” and it will also “inspire.” It’s part of the traveling exhibition “Photography Playground” where people pose with HyperLip in their mouth. (Images via Dezeen via MoMA) […]
There are 32 famous artists in the Art Game — a new Top Trumps set of cards, available in September. Cutely illustrated — who doesn’t want Damien Hirst split in two, Divided-style — the playing cards “allow art lovers of all ages to play their favorite artists against each other to discover who rules the art world.” Numerical values are assigned to “influence,” “shock of […]
In 2002, undercover officer Mark Kennedy was transferred from the drug beat to infiltrate budding environmental protest movements in the UK. For eight existentially excruciating years, he was “Mark Stone.” He protested a dam in Iceland, got his finger broken by riot police, got some tattoos and fell in with some anarchists. He even got himself a girlfriend, […]
Noworkflow is a new project by artist Sam Newell responds to Brad Troemel’s 2013 New Inquiry essay “Athletic Aesthetics,” which discussed… Athletic aesthetics are a by-product of art’s new mediated environment, wherein creators must compete for online attention in the midst of an overwhelming amount of information. Artists using social media have transformed the notion of a “work” from a series […]
