Tag: Art
The grim reaper known as Vice has come for the Glasslands, placing the final nail in Williamsburg’s proverbial coffin. With only eight days left in the converted warehouse, the art space is celebrating what was and what still is and what could be. It’s still adding new art every day, reports BrooklynVegan, and tonight’s free […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist New York-based artist Lisa Beck talks about Threshold, an outdoor sculpture that is “solid but also open,” inspired by passing. I was invited to make an outdoor sculpture for the exhibition called […]
You’ve likely seen his collaboration with Das Racist or his Internet hashtag and blog #WhitePeopleDoingYoga, but it was this is the image by Chiraag Bhakta, who goes by moniker *Pardon My Hindi, that recently caught ANIMAL’s attention: How is Columbus Day still a thing? A photo posted by Chiraag B. (@pardonmyhindi) on Oct 10, 2014 […]
Back in February, a website called Bite Labs announced its plan to grow meat from the DNA of celebrities. In November, a group of computer scientists claimed to want to backup your DNA with bitcoin, via Genecoin. Weeks later, an Indiegogo campaign called the McMass Project popped up, aiming to raise $1 million to buy […]
Sweet Toof, a London-based artist and “GRAFFOHOLIC,” is exhibiting legal work at PANDEMIC on Friday. Billed as the “highest authority in dental deviance,” the semi-anonymous artist will be “showing paintings, sculpture, installation and more” according to the Brooklyn gallery. Derailed represents Sweet Toof’s second solo show in New York City. Known for painting pink fleshy […]
The image you are looking at right now is the most expensive photograph in the world. Before I tell you how much someone paid for it, I want you to take it all in, noting that it is devoid of any color and is set in an Arizona canyon. Okay, you ready? Someone paid $6.5 […]
Nothing says outrage at the creeping surveillance state like an adorable terrier wearing human clothes with leaked NSA documents printed on them. Big Data Pawn Shop, an art project/clothing label wants you to be able to make a fashion STATEMENT with the documents that Edward Snowden risked his life to smuggle out of NSA headquarters. If […]
While the phallus is literally worshipped in Japan, representations of the vagina are considered taboo to the point of being criminally offensive. Dazed reports that Megumi Igarashi, the Japanese artist who was famously jailed for creating a kayak based on a 3D print of her vagina, has been re-arrested on the same charges of obsenity. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist Aaron Graham talks about his recent installation at Croton Point Park, forces of nature and the mobile gallery that he founded with his mom. Last year, my mother and I bought a […]
As the gap between fine art and digital art narrows, Moleskine’s recent innovation makes the transition from one medium to the other perhaps the most seamless use of art technology yet. Traditionally known for its black-bound paper notebooks, Moleskine on Thursday announced a new notebook and app that works with Adobe Creative Cloud to convert […]
