Tag: Art
“No, I didn’t. But they’re pretty great.” That’s what artist Tom Sanford told ANIMAL when we noticed a similarity between his fleshy, parodic style (see celebs on a stripper, right) and that of these “controversial” Ford of India ads (see gagged and tied celebs/strippers in trunks, left and center). The rapey Russ Meyer-esque aesthetics of Berlusconi […]
The above video starts with promise: a woman’s naked body sits in the center of the frame, appearing to slowly morph (NSFW, dummy). Her hair shoots into the air, her skin sags then tightens, she begins to lean forward at the waist. Is she aging before our eyes? Filmmaker Michael Haussman achieved the effect by having […]
Praise be to Gawker for publishing a new batch of George W. Bush paintings, straight from hacker Guccifer. Subjects include shells(?), landscapes, cats and, yes, more dogs. These paintings present Bush’s ability to paint various subjects and not just dogs and his nude self. But if we’re being honest, these aren’t as good as the […]
TRANSFER, Brooklyn’s latest addition to the www-to-AFK gallery space experiment, opened its doors last weekend with a solo show by Alexandra Gorczynski. Steadily exhibiting several times a year, the artist created all new work for “Truisms.” Standouts? A particularly likable canvas of flirty eyes and digital strokes, a classical visual of female anatomy with a smiley face […]
Brooklyn-based artist Antoine Catala wants help making drones. No, not the government’s killer drones. These will be small, made for flying around an art gallery, and shaped like one of the four popular Internet categories: cat, car, butt, or pizza. So if you know how to program a drone, notably the AR.Drone 2.0, please let […]
Bradley Hart takes bubble wrap and deliberately injects the bubbles with paint, creating portraits of Steve Jobs and scenes of Amsterdam. It’s remarkable how these jiggly little boils of paint can create such detailed results. That must have taken a lot of patience. The big question, though, is how does Hart resist the natural human urge to pop […]
After the public trial and imprisonment of Pussy Riot, two of the activists are currently serving two years in some of the most dangerous and notoriously decrepit prison work camps in Russia… for 40 seconds of dancing in a church. According to activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s husband Peter Verzilov, Tolokonnikova spends eight hours a day sewing these outfits. Things weren’t exactly cool […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original idea sketch next to a finished piece. This week, Organ Armani explains his meta, Facebook-centric, short-term-nostalgia-heavy Gallery Online project — specifically “No Net Today, My Love Has Gone Away.” i’ve been doing a lot of reading. on facebook. on my phone. i started out my current project from […]
OH MY GOD THIS SKULL HAS BOOBS IN IT SHIELD YOUR INNOCENT EYES EVERYBODY. ArtInfo reports that the blue-chip Saatchi Gallery has been censored by Facebook when the Salvador Dalí x Philippe Halsman’s 1951 classic Voluptas Mors was removed for being “offensive” because OH MY GOD BOOBS BOOBS AND BUTTS IN ART THIS IS TERRIBLE. “We never […]
Photographer Elizabeth Moran has released a series of porn movie sets sans porn stars, titled The Armory. The photos were taken in the San Francisco sex factory of Kink.com, and it’s completely devoid of boobs or dicks. This gallery is similar to photos of celebrities without celebrities in them, except in The Armory, the porn […]
