Tag: Art
Earlier this morning, NME published an article about Nick Cave’s Heard NY performance in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall. Cool. Only it’s the wrong Nick Cave. Some of us may have predicted this mix-up but it’s still pretty amusing because NME is NME. So to clarify, there are two men named Nick Cave — a recording artist and an “artist” artist. Nick […]
In 1999, the Brooklyn Museum displayed Holy Virgin Mary, a painting by the Turner Prize-winning painter Chris Ofili that incorporates elephant feces and images of female genitalia alongside an image of the Virgin Mary. The work offended the delicate sensibilities of then-mayor Rudy Giuliani and his Roman Catholic deputy mayor Joe Lhota, and what followed was a […]
What is a 20-ft long wooden replica military helicopter doing on the roof of a Long Island City studio? Commissioned by Amnesty International and the Control Arms campaign, two New York artists spent three days creating the chopper to raise awareness about a UN treaty that would place new regulations on the international arms trade. […]
Brooklyn Brewery is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary (yey, beer) with a series of limited edition labels featuring artwork by Brooklyn artists Fred Tomaselli, Joe Amrhein, Elizabeth Crawford and Roxy Paine. The Fred Tomaselli could not be more perfect because his signature kaleidoscopic Breathing Head (2002) sounds like it’s about beer despite having an actual breathing head in it. […]
“Are you having trouble understanding artists through their art? Understand them through their STUFF instead.” Art F City has an amazing fresh feature STUFF and this week, transgressive legend Genesis P-Orridge showed them STUFF. It includes a Bronze Lord Shiva, a Tibetan Thighbone Trumpet, a DREAMACHINE, loving memorabilia of Genesis’s beloved “Other Half” Lady Jaye and this amazing […]
In 1997, Eduardo Kac invented the term “Bio Art,” giving a name to several of his ethics-challenging projects in transgenics and biotechnology. His Genesis installation allowed online viewers to interact with a synthetic gene, proposing a philosophical paradox of man’s supremacy over nature. Alba, Kac’s genetically-altered florescent bunny, roused global controversy. “You would be surprised by the number of individuals who consider […]
New York artist Molly Crabapple has been busy. Following the great success of her Kickstarter and her intensive research, she’s spent days and days and days in her studio, immaculately painting corrupt fatcats, worker mice, and feminine mascots of 2011’s biggest revolutions and crises — an android-like Anonymous, a towering Occupy dangling plastic police bracelets and modern feminist […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, we’re talking to Brooklyn-based painter Christian Rex van Minnen whose immaculate portraits and tableaux are a perfect mix of visual opulence and pretty horror. Today, he shows us the inspiration and process behind RED & GREEN. This painting was started […]
This weekend, popular mythical creature Tilda Swinton re-performed her 1995 piece The Maybe at the MoMA, without making a press announcement. She slept quietly inside a glass, aquarium-like enclosure as visiting crowds swarmed outside. She has been talking about doing this at the MoMA since 2005, before Marina Abramović performed her three-month The Artist Is Present epic. She will be doing unannounced pop-up performances throughout the […]
For yet another artistic example of why Vine is the most exciting social media platform going, take a look at the music video for Masters in France’s “Flexin,” which automatically populates itself with clips based tagged with words from the song’s lyrics. If a verse includes the word “high,” for example, and you once Vined […]
