Tag: Art
Sorry for the money shot upfront, but wow. We’ve been anticipating dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei‘s heavy metal music and here it is: “Dumbass.” Or something worse, really, something the New York Times only refers to as “a rather vulgar Chinese word.” Ai worked with Wong Kar-wai’s cinematographer Christopher Doyle, which is why the video is […]
Hidden within the sterile, long-abandoned second floor rooms of the Farley Post Office in Midtown, there is a vast and impressive collection of art. Works by Picasso, Warhol, Basquiat, Condo, Manzoni and others — some never before exhibited in public — contrast stunningly against the decrepit walls and outdated decor of the labyrinthine space. Decades ago, there […]
This is one of those projects whose premise basically speaks for itself. A group of digital artists developed a program that runs Google’s satellite images of Earth through facial recognition software, finding the faces that are hidden on the planet’s landscape. Watch the brilliant software at work below, and see some of its findings in […]
Venus Webcam was a stand-out new media piece at the F.A.T. Gold 5-Year Retrospective at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. It also got ANIMAL kicked off Facebook for two days, after we posted the project documentation — “art boobs,” sort of. Today, Eyebeam’s booth for Internet Week New York (#IWNY) at the Metropolitan Pavilion got censored. In physical space. With a curtain. Yes, […]
Before Sheryo x The Yok’s “PIPE DREAMS” exhibit opened at the Krause Gallery in the Lower East Side last week, ANIMAL stopped by the artists’ studio in Brooklyn. While the street artists are active in New York, this series of work was created at a ceramic factory in Northern Vietnam and on canvases inside their […]
So, it’s not quite as dramatic as lasers vs. balloons, but it’s enough to wake you up on this gloomy Monday morning. Digital artist Memo Akten developed an openFrameworks-based method to control a laser projector with vector drawings, then took the project one step further, tracking the edges of real objects, then projecting lasers onto […]
Our friends at the Klughaus Gallery are currently hosting a special pop-up exhibit entitled “PALINGENESIS,” featuring Parisian PAL (Peace and Love) Crew and their LES “forefather” GOREY. The work walks a delicate path from graffiti into fine art. This is PAL’s first U.S. gallery debut. Check out our shots of some of the work. “PALINGENESIS,” GOREY, HORFE, CONY, TOMEK, […]
Avoiding much of art fair season havoc, some of us may found ourselves at Chelsea Waterside Park when for a few hours on May 10th, the park featured a collection of curious, unique 3D-printed objects, each designed by a group of artists. Concurrently, the objects were offered for sale via the Shapeways website, a service that allows customers to upload […]
Hey, New York. Enjoying the weather today? The warm temperature, the lovely breeze, the breathable atmosphere, the lack of gravity storm vortexes swallowing up the sidewalk as it thunders along towards you? Being on Earth is pretty nice. Now, here’s artist Nickolay Lamm of StorageFront and astrobiologist Marilyn Browning Vogel, taking you through the unpleasantries of interplanetary New Yorks. […]
It’s a hot air balloon. But still, damn. If you happen to see magnificent creature flying around the outback this summer, do not be alarmed. Created by Patricia Piccinini–the artist behind this supremely bizarre human-animal hybrid sculpture—Skywhale looks like a giant bird-fish with droopy, bulbous breasts instead of wings. It is absolutely beautiful, and it will […]
