Tag: Art
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 Kyle Petreycik talks about his latest, material-centric sculpture “BYOB.” Specifically for this piece, I selected a few objects and then simply put them ‘into play’ within a physical space. I’ve found myself working mostly intuitively at the […]
Self-styled investigator Silvano Vinceti says that he is close to identifying the remains of Lisa Gherardini, commonly believed to be the model for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Three skeletons pulled out of a Florence crypt by his team of archiologists academics historians “researchers” are currently being carbon dated to establish if the woman buried there — along with hundreds, […]
Arne Svenson, the NYC artist who recently came under fire for taking and exhibiting photographs of his neighbors in their homes, has won his legal battle in the Manhattan Supreme Court. Svensons photos were art, ruled Justice Eileen Rakower, and art is free speech protected under the first amendment. “While it makes the [plaintiffs] cringe to […]
As the Nazis spread war and mayhem throughout Europe, who was in charge of preserving countless amount of artworks and cultural relics at risk of destruction? That’s right. Nobody. During Hitler’s ascent to power, the fuehrer and his army began stealing and subsequently hoarding many of the priceless fine art treasures Europe is so prevalently known for. In […]
This should be fun: Pixelate, an art-piece-cum-arcade game that’s billed as a “showdown to see who can eat the most food in the correct order” by its creators. Not virtual food, though–real food like bananas, kiwis and strawberries, really ingested by the players. How does it work? Foods have particular electrical resistances, so using a specially designed fork […]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s in-house restaurant, Ray’s and Stark’s Bar, now has a water tasting menu with twenty different bottles of water, along with pompous descriptions and ratings. For example: Badoit is naturally carbonated with tiny bubbles, the type found in fine Champagne, that give this water a light and sophisticated taste […]
“I feel like ‘the end of the fucking world’ is a common phrase in a teenager’s life,” cartoonist Charles Forsman observes via email, taking some time between busily filling orders for his small press publishing company Oily Comics, and preparing for the release of TEOTFW, a terse, touching graphic novel out via alternative comix behemoth […]
I’m 100% comfortable with this headline. I would have also been comfortable with “Look at Lady Gaga’s Naked Nude Boobs and Other Nude Nakedness and Give Marina Abramović Some Money” and also “Lady Gaga and Marina Abramović Make Hot Mutual Masturbation Video.” Last week at a three-day retreat in upstate New York, Marina instructed Lady Gaga in […]
We’re almost done celebrating Andy Warhol’s birthday. See anything good on that live gravecam? Société Perrier has for you a net art GIF tribute to Andy — for he was a fan of the computer! — and what do you know, it features some of our favorite artists. Here are some good ones… Lorna Mills, Harwood […]
An American tourist broke off an entire pinkie off a 600-year-old Italian statue. What part of “don’t touch the art” do you not understand, people? Sadly, this long-standing rule of museum etiquette seems to be interpreted very loosely by visitors. Recently, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo guards spotted a man standing very close to the statue by Giovanni d’Ambrogio centuries ago. […]
