Tag: Art
Righteous conmen and activist artists the Yes Men just pranked the city of Amsterdam in a big, furry way. Since Shell has just partnered with Russia’s notorious gas-oil giant Gazprom with plans to drill in the Arctic Circle, the Yes Men impersonated some corporate VIPs and delivered a drugged polar bear in a cage on […]
Issue 9 of artsy culture magazine King Brown is out and it’s dope. It features interviews with the likes of Dabs & Myla, Ed Templeton, NYCHOS, Ghostpatrol, HuskMitNavn, Unga (Broken Fingaz crew), Numskull, Vans the Omega, and Ozzie Wright, among others. One of my favorite staples of the limited edition mag that was founded by […]
This is not what a feminist artist looks like. I am not in a habit of trashing a show before I see it, so I won’t trash the 2-day “EXPLICIT” exhibit at Morgan Avenue Underground in Bushwick this weekend. After reading this Vice profile however, it’s clear that there is an ethical and intellectual fail in […]
Bulgarian capital Sofia hates their Soviet army monument. You would too if you had a gigantic bronze relief remind you about an invading country’s forces that crushed a reformist uprising 45 years ago. It’s been vandalized. It’s now all pretty in pink, tagged with the words “Prague ’68” and “Bulgaria apologizes” in Czech and Bulgarian, […]
Inspired by the radical left organization the Weather Underground, The New Weathermen have a few proposals for unauthorized ecological interventions. As per their Manifesto (PDF link): Parasite Lost Parasitic behaviour will not be tolerated. Eden Gone There is no untouched Nature to go back to. Only forward. Caution is for Preys Abort the precautionary principle. Bio Commons Abolish […]
“Only the stitches hurt, because I looked at them,” artist Anthony Antonellis says, trying not to itch the incision site between the thumb and index finger. He says it didn’t hurt when the Brooklyn body modification specialist cut open the skin with a 0.75 inch blade or when he stuck the long, blade-less installer inside, pushing and […]
Jeffrey Deitch is coming back to New York and he’s doing a graffiti show, sort of. It looks interesting. His highly hyped street art exhibit that one time was dampened by a questionable incident *cough BLU cough* and his overall stint as the director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art lead to questions regarding his […]
To create the mystifying marbled circles you see above, artist John Sabraw and environmental engineer Guy Riefler looked to pollution. Riefler collected river water that had been tainted with iron by coal mining near Athens, Ohio, then using it as pigment for Sabraw to use in paint. “I was coming back from rivers with stained socks,” […]
The federal ruling that deemed the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics unconstitutional was a landmark decision, but the battle is far from over. Mayor Bloomberg, who recently said “I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little,” already said he’s going to appeal the decision. In the meantime, to keep the pressure on, ANIMAL teamed […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist Tristan Perich shows us the beginnings and production of Microtonal Wall, a piece currently on view at the MoMA “Soundings.” Made up of 1,500 tiny speakers, Microtonal Wall emits a texture of sound that changes as you walk along […]
