Tag: Art
This week, George Zimmerman unleashed his latest painting — an ugly, heavy-handed rendering of Angela Corey, the special prosecutor on his trial. Much like his last “work,” which appropriated a stock photo of an American flag, this one liberally lifts from a preexisting image as well: an Associated Press photo of Corey taken by Rick […]
To create the animations you see above, the design house Moniker created instructions for drawing each frame, then let visitors to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum draw them themselves. Some frames had strict, specific instructions — “Connect all dots to all dots. Use straight lines.” — others were more ambiguous and open to interpretation. The process creates […]
On January 28, Miles Pflanz will be holding a retrospective screening of his 2013 films at Silent Barn. Pflanz — founder of the now defunct Fitness Center for Arts and Tactics — is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn. His non-narrative films are documents of “public provocations, the aimless rage of youth counter […]
Also, penis. Because isn’t it refreshing when a female ex-partner is being a predatory fame-seeker and has herself a gallery show comprised entirely out of her mediocre photographs of former lover and famous dead artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, hanging out all nude on her mattress, his junk flapping around in an air of casual intimacy and […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Chicago-based new media artist Jennifer Chan talks about the Yaoi roots of her video piece P.A.U.L. This is my Downloads folder. I collect digital things compulsively. I feel a strange attachment to digital files–or the way they should […]
Online graffiti gallery Dirty Pilot has some new art for its ongoing “Black Book Masters” series. This exhibit features eye-popping work from writers such as SKEME, TRACY 168, SHAME, CRIME 79, GHOST and CES. And it’s for sale, for not that much. I put some of my favorites in the gallery above. Click here to […]
Artist Erica Sellers‘ new work The Grind is a wooden plank, artificially rippled to mimic her field recordings collected around the city. To create the artwork, audio samples of New York City were collected over the span of a month and converted into sound waves. The sound waves were then transformed into various three-dimensional surfaces using 3D […]
Swiss artist Zimoun’s latest installation in the UK consists of 96 prepared dc-motors rattling wooden balls inside 96 cardboard boxes. Video above. Zimoun according to bitforms gallery: Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of […]
Yes, this is a skull made of cocaine. It’s called Ecce Animal, and it’s a sculpture by the Dutch artist Diddo (who also made this hypothetical “cure for greed“). As far as skulls go, it ranks somewhere below Noah Scalin’s skull made of VHS tapes and above Dan Aykroyd’s skull made of glass filled with vodka. Once, […]
In conducting the interviews for this piece, something became clear: The reason that so many people care so deeply about end of 285 Kent, is that 285 Kent was more than a room where bands played. At 285 we witnessed the collapse of genre barriers in real time, as internet rap stars mingled with hardcore […]
