Tag: Art
Remember all that noise about 3D-printed guns? And then the subsequent panicked government attempts to censor and regulate the downloads of files that take a huge, expensive effort to turn into breakable physical objects? F.A.T. artist Kyle McDonald has a few things to say about that. I believe that networked media, in its current form, can not […]
A Net Art Show on the Internet Review is a new ongoing series of reviews of net art shows… on the internet. Art Baby is an online exhibition space that supports artists who “consider digitality to be a main focus of their practice” “in the beginning stages of their career.” Currently on view: Aimee Leigh. Expectingly, […]
Stop by Gowanus’s Serett Metal Works in the next few days and you may catch a glimpse of a Banksy. Not because the artist painted an original work on the building, but because it’s the temporary home of a piece hacked out of a Los Angeles wall, taken, and sold by the shady Hamptons gallery owner Stephan […]
Café des Artistes is packed with storied New Yorkers. Walt Frazier, Tina Fey, RZA, Jonathan Lethem, Diane Von Furstenberg, Woody Allen, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are just a few of the many familiar faces in artist Tom Sanford’s latest body of work, which opens to the public today at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in Chelsea. Sanford tells ANIMAL […]
Forget Monopoly. That’s why we’re all fucked. Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution. Commonopoly is a project from Big Hope: Miklós Erhardt, Dominic Hislop, Elske Rosenfeld. They refer to […]
Hell Baby (2013) From the guys who brought you Reno 911 it’s Reno 911 w/Vatican priests sorta. Haunted house! Haunted uterus! “Bitches be trippin.” Demon baby. Ghost blow jobs. Po’ boys. Po’verty. Exorcismz. Eviscerationz. HAHAHAHA. BLOoOOO0OO0oOD: 2.meh out of 5.0 Standard gory American comedy slapstick NOT GORY ENOUGH. Y U eviscerate/crucify “Dr.” Michael Ian Black and 1 scene […]
Artist Jennifer Maravillas is mapping Brooklyn, all of Brooklyn. “The name of my map is 71 Square Miles because that’s how big the borough is,” she tells ANIMAL, peeling old crinkled flyers off posts and picking up scribbled-up, torn-out paper from the sidewalk. “I’m interested in trash because it shows so much about people’s lives. It’s language and […]
For his new series therainpaintings, Kilo Collective’s Brazilian-born artist Gustavo Sousa collects raindrops — in Paris, São Paulo and around New York, from Hell’s Kitchen to Chelsea to Park Avenue — and watercolors with them. “We have these beautiful sculptures floating above us every day and we take little notice of them, especially in big cities like […]
Doug Aitken‘s nomadic train tour is set to kick-off this Friday in Brooklyn with live, sold out performances by Suicide, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, No Age and more. ANIMAL has your first look at the Station to Station train. The project, supported by Levi’s plans to donate all of their ticket sales to contemporary art organizations such as the Walker Art Center, the Los Angeles Museum of Art as […]
Lindsay Howard, who curated the F.A.T. Lab’s epic five year retrospective at Eyebeam and organized the 48-hour #GodsMode art hack day at 319 Scholes in Brooklyn, is curating the first-ever digital art auction at Phillips. Currently, there’s open call for submissions through September 16th. “Official press release from Phillips is forthcoming, right now we’re focused on getting […]
