Tag: Art
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Crispin talks about Charon — a technically complex year-long project creating a gorgeous sculpture derived from a flight path of a drone. In short, Charon is an interactive installation and sculpture created […]
James Kerr’s amazing Scorpion Dagger blog has hundreds of animated digital collages that remix northern and early Renaissance art with 21st century themes. See some of our favorites in the gallery above, featuring Jesus, Mary, and a slew of characters from the Biblical times and 15th Century Europe, like Jesus-and-Apostles tandem bike, transformer-Jesus… …giant-inflatable-tube-man Jesus… …and, also, pant-shredding […]
A new collaborative art space has recently opened in Bushwick. Powrplnt provides free and donation-based digital art workshops open to everyone (ages 13-113), training participants in creative software like Photoshop and Ableton Live while working on projects. Powrplnt founder Angelina Dreem spoke frankly to ANIMAL about their mission, their projects and the gentrification of Brooklyn. Powrplnt’s next exhibit takes place […]
When Insa isn’t photographing hot girls on fixies, he’s painting street art murals with day-glo colors that are impossible to miss on walls and buildings around the world. Insa has also been known to paint multi-layered murals, taking photos along the way to build a stop-motion gif-like video. The video then becomes a stop motion […]
On Sunday, online gallery Dirty Pilot went live with its latest exhibit of graffiti art for sale: the “Vintage Label Show.” Graffiti greats such as BLADE, CES, CLAW, T-KID, DR. REVOLT, YES2 (picture above) and other notables, painted paper labels stripped off of spray cans from old school brands like Tragic Magic, Lucas, Rust-Oleum and Krylon. It’s […]
New York’s Museum of Modern Art is planning a Björk retrospective for 2015 that will “chronicle her career through sound, film, visuals, instruments, objects, costumes, and performance.” According to Pitchfork, the exhibition will also feature a new semi-autobiographical narrative written by Björk along with an “immersive music and film experience” created by director Andrew Huang and 3D software […]
The above image, titled Unknown Woman, 1930s, was taken Soho photographer John Deakin. It may or may not be famous artist Francis Bacon in drag. According to The Guardian, collection manager of the Deakin Archive Paul Rousseau became a bit obsessed with this theory, proposed by commenters in a prior article. He used the same ForensicaGPS facial recognition software used by law […]
Holly Herndon is an artist interested in how the spaces we inhabit in the digital world become physical. In her video for “Chorus” off her 2014 EP of the same name, she explores how we coexist with technology. Her collaborators Akihiko Taniguchi and Mat Dryhurst created the video using clips sourced from friends and rendered in glitchy […]
A Vladimir Lenin statue in Nowa Huta, Poland has been re-erected for Krakow’s 6th Grolsch ArtBoom Festival, reborn in fluorescent green as The Fountain of the Future sculpture. His hands, which are customarily depicted tucked behind his back or pointing towards the alleged Communist Utopia ahead, have also been altered — one of them is now holding his pipe-penis, which spurts out water in […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Seattle-based artist Sean Pearson talks about the road, nightmares and his piece “I don’t know where he came from or why.” I’m usually inspired by daydreaming, especially during something exciting, like being on the road. This is how […]
