Tag: Art
Artist Cory Arcangel and experimental music producer Oneohtrix Point Never recently released a mysterious audio file and no one is sure exactly what it sounds like. It was, as of earlier today, technically and literally unlistenable. We considered that perhaps we weren’t meant to actually hear it, that this was an intentional artistic gesture commentating on just how […]
Last week, ANIMAL videotaped artist Anthony Antonellis getting an RFID chip implanted into a fleshy part of his left hand — from the initial slice of the skin, to the stretching and pulling apart of the flesh, to the implantation to the… TA-DA!.. functionality. The RFID chip stores Anthony’s unique 1KB favicon gradient GIF and is readable by compatible mobile devices […]
According to a museum director at the Muzei Vlasti (Museum of Authorities), an artist whose work depicts Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sporting women’s undergarments whilst brushing each other’s hair has fled the country and is apparently seeking asylum in France. The painting Travesty is just one of the works by artist Konstantin Altunin that […]
Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles is known for its fantastically fan-arty shows dedicated to everything from Breaking Bad to internet memes. People straight up camped out for “The Official Edgar Wright Art Show,” that’s been “seven years in the making” — Wright’s films have appeared frequently in the several installments of Gallery 1988’s “Crazy 4 Cult” movie-tribute […]
In the future, everything will be automated–even milquetoast painting. Case in point: digital artist Kenichi Yoneda (aka Kynd) has created an algorithm that emulates the natural bleed and unpredictability of watercolor paints. And though he didn’t use watercolors himself, Kynd says he was inspired by that venerated master of the magnificently milquetoast: Bob Ross. Kynd says […]
As proven by this compilation of Miley Cyrus twerking on famous paintings from Buzzfeed, the VMAs aren’t actually for popular music or news coverage, but for the after-show fall-out and memes. PS. Art art art. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard — one of the artists exhibiting at MoMA current “Soundings” show — shares the inspirations and audio from his sound art piece Labyrinthitis, sent to us just before his recent performance of the piece at Eyebeam. I […]
For these beautiful, dreamlike portraits, artist Nick Criscuolo takes inkjet printouts of existing images, then modifies them to his liking. Water “melts” the ink, new pigments are added, and scratches contrast the bleeding, amorphous pools of color with sharply-defined lines. The highly physical process combined with the emphasis on widely available consumer technology makes for painting that […]
I said I would so I did go to that group show featuring DickPix — penis shots of unknowing males solicited by female “anonymous artists interested in feminism and the internet” through faked OKCupid and Grindr profiles. There was a tiled collage of (barely cropped, possibly recognizable) dicks aligned in angry rows (because dicks are horrible, angry […]
It looks like the art of Chris Brown has evolved since we crashed his reception at the Opera Gallery in SoHo last year. Judging by the looks of his $90,000 Porsche that he decided to “art” because he can, the angry clowny scribbles have gone into full sloppy Kenny Scharf imitation mode, but angrier. Look […]
