Tag: Art
Artist Jon Rafman’s video A Man Digging uses video captured inside Max Payne 3, the notoriously experiential killing-based video game, and reworks it into a short film. In it, Payne, the troubled and traumatized former NYPD detective, now a vigilante São Paulo, realizes he exists, but exists in a designed and very limited space. He narrates various scenes, just after carnage. “Payne […]
Sincura Group, the London-based firm that helps facilitate the removal and sale of Banksy’s outdoor work and claims to solely do it for goodwill and charity is universally hated by fans of the British street artist. Recently, they mounted an ironically-named exhibition featuring several cutout walls, once again rising the ire of the artist’s supporters. […]
“I sort of avoid the A-word. I’ve come to the decision that having fun can be a political act. I actually consider what I do as more in the vein of comedy. No one has to justify jokes,” Jason Eppink tells ANIMAL, seated in the kitchen of the Queens art collective the Flux Factory, avoiding […]
According to the “Culture Track” study of “attitudes and behaviors among U.S. cultural audiences” you are: OVERSTIMULATED PROMISCUOUS HYPER-CONNECTED CYNICAL OVERCOMMITTED SELF-FOCUSED BUT CURIOUS The New York-based firm LaPlaca Cohen released this incredibly amusing […]
Harmony Korine (writer of Kids, writer and director of Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Trash Humpers and Spring Breakers) is having an art exhibit at the Park Avenue Gagosian Gallery this May. Here is a preview: Blue Checker (2014), from “Shooters.” We have collectively decided that this is a Magic Eye painting with a person sitting on another person’s shoulders in it and the […]
Artist Mishka Henner‘s current solo show at the Carroll/Fletcher gallery in London features aerial images of Fifty-One US Military Outposts. Overt and covert military outposts used by the United States in fifty-one different countries across the world. Sites located and gathered from information available in the public domain, official US military and veterans’ websites and forums, domestic and foreign […]
On Saturday night in Los Angeles, a crowd filled 1988 Gallery for an exhibition of “Rap Quotes,” a series of works by Jay Shells. The right side of the gallery housed the artist’s New York City street signs, which he’s been hanging at specific locations mentioned in hip hop songs since last year; the left […]
Visitors to Banksy’s website today were greeted with yet another mysterious change to its splash page, which previously hosted a photo of his “mobile lovers” piece. Now, the site displays an illustration of “Sirens of the Lambs,” the meat truck filled with crying stuffed animals the artist toured around NYC last year. What does it […]
As part of the one-night show “Proof of Work” and in collaboration with the digital user-friendly art-making platform New Hive, Alexandra Gorczynski, Labanna Babalon and Molly Soda will be projecting a series of multi-media art works tonight in San Francisco. The three-artist “Beautiful Life” series responds to the “fictional dichotomy” of gender, projecting the notions of “masculine/civilized and […]
Earlier this month, when George W. Bush premiered his portraits of world leaders, we found and cited the sources for nearly all of his paintings. It was really easy, because they were taken directly from the subjects’ first Google image search results and Wikipedia entries. With the help of appropriation expert Greg Allen (who was the first to spot GWB’s Google trail), we […]
