Tag: Art
“Raster Raster” is an exhibition featuring 11 artists from New York, Lahore, Berlin, and Los Angeles, including some of ANIMAL’s favorites: Petra Cortright, Alexandra Gorczynski, Jayson Musson and Bunny Rogers. The work, now on view at the Cravey Gallery in Los Angeles, features 3D-printed sculptures of Jasper Spicero, Cortright’s digital paintings on silk, sitespecific installations, mixed-video-media pieces and more from artists whose […]
Cheryl Dunn’s Everybody Street sets out to be a kind of definitive documentary on street photography, shadowing some of the most legendary practitioners — from Jill Freedman and Mary Ellen Mark to Bruce Gilden and Elliot Erwitt, as well as ANIMAL favorites Martha Cooper and Boogie. Its focus is their experience on the streets of New York […]
With north Brooklyn rents soon set to surpass those in many Manhattan neighborhoods and more city tenants making the move back over the East River, one can’t help but wonder what will become of those fabled bohemian districts long laid waste by chain falafel and finance bros. The last decade alone saw the shutter of […]
The arsty-analytical online project Staplecrops has created an abstract visualization of every geographical location mentioned in the lyrics of artists like Jay-Z and Kanye West. Converting the place names — like “Brooklyn” or “Paris” — into geo-coordinates, they then used a robotic arm holding a light pen to trace them from point to point, creating a lingering […]
Video art is a fairly overlooked medium. Collectors don’t collect it very much and museums hide it in their archives. These days getting people to recognize net art and animated GIFs as legit seems like a bigger challenge, but it was video art that helped lay the groundwork for those platforms and it has never really […]
Recently, a mysterious start up “Bite Labs” announced plans to grow meat made from the DNA found in celebrity tissue samples and turn it into salami. Mmmm, famous human flesh. Though the desire to eat your favorite celebrity may seem outlandish and the sales of all human tissue is heavily regulated, this specific flavor of cannibalism is previously explored […]
If you enjoyed the mind-melting malleable paper skull sculpture by Li Hongbo, he’s currently exhibiting at the Klein Sun Gallery in New York. Here’s some slow-motion video documentation of the sculptures by Kid Guy Collective’s Todd Martin. When the classical porcelain-like Greek and Renaissance busts begin to fall apart, melt and stretch and fall back together… Don’t worry. That’s just […]
In April, the Brush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas will be exhibiting “two dozen never-before-exhibited portraits painted by President Bush.” The announcement was made a month after the arrest of hacker Guccifer, who famously first leaked George W’s bad paintings. The bad paintings were of cats and dogs, mostly but also some bath-time self-portraits which reminded me […]
To celebrate the release of Yoav Litvin’s book “Outdoor Gallery,” the Brooklyn art exhibit featured works from more than 40 artists and included 3 collaborative murals and films from DEGA. “The book is my kind of document of my adventures in New York city,” Litvin tells ANIMAL. “I grew up here in the ’80s, so all the […]
Anyone can be Pollock or de Kooning with Action Painting Pro, a game that has you create large-scale abstract expressionist works by navigating your artist-character through obstacles, collecting money, inspiration, and health. Here’s a clip of the gameplay. The painting you create is determined by the character’s movements, so each game generates a new work. […]
