Tag: Art
There’s a story in the Chicago Reader this morning: “The anti-Vivian Maier.” Apparently, some dude in Chicago found a plastic bag of photos and slides on top of a dumpster, gave it to some other dude — Paul-David Young, “an occasional curator who works in the imaging department at the Art Institute” was “fascinated” with them. By a […]
Here’s the latest installment of MOCAtv’s Building Detroit mini-doc series with DABLS, Dmytro Szylak and ANIMAL favorite Monica Canilao. Part 1 featured writers REVOK and POSE, a giant tribute to the late NEKST going up on the side of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and walls used as infinite canvases for graffiti and street art. Part 2 focuses […]
Bruce High Quality Foundation University is “a learning experiment” that offers free classes to artists and art enthusiasts, from performance and sculpture critique to Brad Troemel’s Chat Room of-/post-internet lecture and discussion sessions. BHQFU is now offering a special artist residency program at their Avenue A loft, for five artists of different disciplines to work […]
New York-based pop artist Steve Ellis has installed a public exhibition inside the Condé Nast building. “It’s my biggest show yet, hanging in Times Square,” Ellis tells ANIMAL. “I made a billboard-sized piece about the gritty and glamorous history of the area.” The center-piece Coming to Times Square is a collage compilation in the style of Times Square […]
Skryft, by the artist Gijs van Bon, is a robot that slowly, meticulously writes on the ground using sand. In the Dezeen-produced video above, van Bon uses the bot to display the works of the Dutch poet Merel Morre on the streets of Eindhoven. “When you’re writing one [line of] text, another one is going away because […]
A tipster sent in an image on of what appeared to be a piece of Kaws art hanging on his wall, but it was actually a counterfeit he made. So, we asked him if he would share his process. He agreed. Making your own bootleg Kaws is as as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. […]
“Video games exhibits kind of suck if you can’t actually play the games. That’s core to putting them in a show,” Associate Curator of Digital Media Jason Eppink tells ANIMAL. All of the “Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games,” now on view at the Museum of the Moving Image, are playable and we played most of them, before dashing […]
Artist Akihiko Taniguchi created this software-centric music video for Holly Herndon “Chorus” using photographs of his friends’ “personal environment outside of the screen” — their desktops, the towering stacks of crumpled paper, packages, wires, headphones, the random mess accumulating around the computer. He then rendered 3D models of the spaces, the flaws in the software […]
Photographer Alex Van Gelder shot these portraits in a slaughterhouse in Benin, West Africa. African butchers don’t use electric saws as Europeans do but cut up the meat by hand which produces a variety of styles. Shot at the open air market, some of the meat is still pink, not entirely dead. On view at Hauser & Wirth […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn-based artist Yao Xiao talks about making the official cover art for Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” single. Initially, the very first line about the piece was in an email I received one evening last month — just a simple […]
