Tag: Art
Thursday, May 8th Bernard Herman presents a very special evening of experimental music and film at an unexpected location: a Moroccan restaurant and bar called Tagine in midtown Manhattan. Guests are invited to join in for olives, red wine and the last performance of Lazy Magnet in New York City after an incredible and varied twenty-year […]
Christie’s first spring sale took place last night, totaling at a measly $285.9 million, barely making it into the $244.5 million to $360.4 million estimate and disappointing predictions of the ever-skyrocketing market. The prices have dropped “back down to Earth,” The New York Times giddily concluded, adding that “none of the sales eclipsed the artists’ auction records.” “The […]
Today saw the unveiling of Honey, I Twisted Through More Damn Traffic today, a new Ed Ruscha mural on the High Line. The piece, a riff on a pastel-on-paper Ruscha piece from 1977, will be on display at West 22nd Street — across from the iconic COST/REVS roller — until May of next year. The text is definitely more […]
“You wouldn’t leave your medical records on the subway for just anyone to read,” writes artist and founder of BioGenFutures Heather Dewey-Hagborg writes on her new site. “You should be in control of how you share your information and with whom: be it your email, your phone calls, your SMS messages, and certainly your genes.” Last year, we wrote about her […]
Olek and Miss Van are having two concurrent shows at London’s Stolen Space gallery this month. Miss Van’s “Glamorous Darkness” offers a new “grown-up” series of “gauzy romantic compositions” with a “surreal quality of burlesque.” In “Let’s Not Get Caught, Let’s Keep Going,” Olek re-stages some of Miss Van’s paintings as photographs in crochet form. Besides their […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Lebanon-born Brooklyn-based artist Ramsey Nasser talks about his Arabic programming language artwork قلب . Arabic programming languages with the honest goal of bringing coding to a non-Latin culture have been attempted in the past, but have failed without […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 69° F NIGHT 50° F New in theaters: Ida. ANIMAL x Glad Tidings present: What Cheer? Brigade, Rev. Vince Anderson, The Love Supreme, Bueno at Brooklyn Night Bazaar. (7pm-1am, free, […]
Behold “Craigslist Projects,” a blog-cum-exhibition-space that presents items for sale in various cities as contemporary art. The latest “show,” from Chicago, focuses on minimalism. The curator explains: Despite it’s unspoken goal, for me, minimalism rarely leaves a sense of the elimination of self expression. And there’s that paradox again. In the absence of the hand, […]
“The ideal world would be you didn’t know what gender people where till they took their clothes off,” iconic photographer Nan Goldin says in a recent video interview about her new book Eden And After. Decades of photographs of her friends’ children are compiled here and they are distinctly Nan Goldin, filled with secret knowledge, free in androgyny. The […]
Paddle8 launched the 15-day “No Clothes” auction today. It’s curated by Vogue creative director Grace Coddington, so it’s mostly photography with many models. Out of the 29 auction highlights, there are only two works featuring nude dudes and a whopping 48 exposed breasts, according to our Titty Count™ (it’s like the “weenie count” but with more implied female agency […]
