Tag: Art
A page on Facebook that purported to be the official account of British street artist Banksy was stripped of its verified status earlier this afternoon. The page has about 2.4 million likes and posts several items a day, which, given Banksy’s notoriously shadowy reputation, seemed odd, but the little blue check mark seemed to confirm […]
The new documentary Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case documentary (directed by Andreas Johnsen) begins where Never Sorry left off. It focuses on the questionable charges, constant surveillance, police harassment and further censorship that the rebellious artist faced after being kidnapped and imprisoned by government goons. After 81 days of solitary detention world famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest. […]
Artist Jen Lowe is wearing her heart on her website. That is to say, her project One Human Heartbeat displays the rhythm of her cardiac muscle online, broadcasting every contraction on a softly glowing red circle for the internet to see. Lowe tracks her pulse with a Basis smartwatch, and because there’s no way to stream […]
What’s this Patatap? From artist Jono Brandel and music group Lullatone, here’s what you’ll be doing for the next half an hour. Wait for it to load. Now, your every key will generates a specific sound and a dynamic abstract form. LOOK AT YOU MAKING MUSIC WOW. And here’s ANIMAL’s Andy Cush (who makes music). He just made this: […]
Vik Muniz’s castles made of sand are unfathomably small. Instead of using sand as a building block, stacking huge numbers of grains until they achieve a desired form, he approaches his material like a classical sculptor might approach a block of marble — taking a single grain and etching his images out of it. The […]
Decisive moments by Michael Wolf are very punchy. Doug Rickard’s captures are sprawl like landscape paintings. There are dozens of other artists who sensitively scour the infinite passages of Google Street View for good screengrabs, but Rhizome has just reminded us of Jon Rafman and he is the best at this. Everyone does car accidents. Rafman’s car accident is […]
“What I like about street art is when it’s kind of transgressive and illegal and you get to do shit wherever you want without having to ask for permission,” Judith Supine tells ANIMAL in the video interview above at a Brooklyn warehouse where’s he’s busy prepping for “Golden Child,” his new solo exhibit. “What I don’t […]
“We know nothing about these paintings. We even used Google image search to look up the names.” Amman, Jordan-based designers Mothanna Hussein and Hadi Alaeddin of Warsheh just did what felt natural to them. Their project “NOT ART” is not art. It’s not The Death of Marat, not The Conversion of St Paul and not The Girl With a Pearl Earring. It’s […]
The Unsound Festival — a multi-day Polish experimental music festival imported to NYC from Krakow, has just announced its dates: April 2nd through April 6th. Taking place across multiple venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan, the lineup includes “experimental, classical, post-classical, techno, improv, dub,” Demdike Stare, Andy Votel, Ital & Halal and Huerco S. There will be a series of lectures, […]
“Used to be my main bitch, now she’s just a follower …” Yung Jake (“Datamosh,” “e.m-bed.de/d,” and the Larry David rap song) has just performed his latest song “Unfollow” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Click to watch the music video above. It’s his slickest video yet. And it’s very sensitive. (“Now it’s over… like a […]
