Tag: Art
PornMD — a search engine that lets you search multiple porn sites for very specific XXX content — has launched a new feature. You can now see what people are searching for, in real time. It’s horrifying, enlightening and kind of inspiring. So, ANIMAL has just commissioned several digital artists and published authors to write us […]
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 51°F NIGHT 34°F “Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores” — a show of feminist sound work from the last 20 years mines some of the best troves for under-shown avant […]
Last night, the West 21st Street Gagosian Gallery started shipping out their Richard Serra installation. This meant that the throngs of people leaving opening receptions for bars and subways encountered a giant, famous slab of steel, strapped to a flatbed truck. Holy shit, you guys, Inside Out (2013) is outside! ANIMAL checked in on the truck this morning. […]
FLOTUS graced Manhattan’s New Museum with her presence earlier today, promoting her “Drink Up” campaign with WAT-AHH. Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Kenny Scharf, and others created paintings and murals for this initiative telling kids to drink more water and designed some water bottle labels. Numerous press outlets reported that this was a “street-art inspired exhibit,” but it’s a pop-up event for […]
Partially anonymous artist collective The Bruce High Quality Foundation is having it’s last ever Brucennial, appropriately entitled “The Grand Finale,” from March 7 through April 4. BHQF’s packed biennial event has previously received enamored reviews like these: You might view the jampacked, multifloor installation of works by close to 400 artists as a populist, radically inclusive survey of what artists in […]
This is the new Pussy Riot for “Putin Will Teach You How to Love the Motherland,” starting with delicate music and some waves, until the bright balaclavas emerge triumphantly out of the water and hell breaks loose all over the Olympic International Committee’s fantasy of non-involvement. Though the IOC’s Mark Adam said “what happened wasn’t in the context […]
Cubist painter Maximo Caminero was charged with criminal mischief after destroying an artwork by contemporary Chinese artist and dissident activist Ai Weiwei at the Pérez Art Museum Miami on Sunday. According to his arrest report, the 51-year-old artist picked up one of the Colored Vases on display at Ai Weiwei’s “According to What?” exhibit and after a security guard told him to […]
Earlier today, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and others were brutally attacked by Cossacks in Sochi, 20 miles from the Olympic Park, while performing a Pussy Riot action. The Cossacks are part of Sochi’s internal security force, beefed up for the Olympics. Shortly after, the IOC denied violations of the Olympic Charter as it was a “local” Sochi issue […]
Last year, we showed you a bit of Williamsburg gentrification you could see happening before your eyes on Google Street View. Take one step down North 3rd Street near Kent Avenue, and a dilapidated warehouse turned into a shiny new apartment complex. Now, in a series called Vacated, artist Justin Blinder is building on that concept […]
After an unsuccessful attempt at offloading outdoor works from Banksy’s NYC residency Better Out Than In at Art Miami in December, art dealer Stephan Keszler is trying once again to sell the pieces. The artist’s Red Hook heart balloon wall piece and “Crazy Horse” car door are up for sale at Miami’s FAAM auction house, for starting bids […]
