Tag: Art
Diego Trujillo’s This Tape Will Self Destruct prints “a mixture of images and texts extracted from Cold War fictions paired up with excerpts from current secret documents.” Shortly after, these print-outs burst into flames. With the Kremlin security agencies going back to typewriter and paper to prevent computer leaks and the Guardian having to destroy the hardware which […]
“Color Separated” is a new music video for Swedish electrofunk producer Beem, directed and animated by Sam Rolfes (profiled in ANIMAL’s Artist Notebook here). Click to play above, in all its gyrating, moshing, dayglo-horror glory. “The vid was created over a month of tearing apart the gnarled 3D objects and environments that litter my hard drive from previous […]
A new project by Roopa Vasudevan sources hip-hop lyrics by Jay-Z, the Notorious B.I.G., Fat Joe and Rick Ross and the frequency of their particular word patterns. Grillz are lyrics processed by PyGenius, modeled into physical form with the help the geomerative and modelbuilder libraries and 3D-printed in polished gold steel. The technique is clever, but […]
Our friends at Art F City have launched their fall benefit auction on Paddle8 which will help them take their part time writers to full time. This is a great chance for fellow fans of Jayson Musson (and his alter-ego Hennessy Youngman) to grab his 36 x 20 inch Coogi sweater painting, the only one available on the market. […]
Giant dice flopped through the air last night at Postmasters Gallery, tumbling over a room-sized “Monopolart” game-board. Players moved their paper-mached photo-collaged sculptures of Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner and the blue-chip-like, landing on various famous artists, deciding whether they should buy them or with their giant fake money. For their very important decisions, the players consulted our very important […]
Check out original art by D*Face, Audrey Kawasaki and Gary Baseman featuring some people’s favorite cartoon cat that is not actually a cat, sort of. The first ever Hello Kitty retrospective opens the Japanese American Museum tomorrow in Los Angeles. Aside from vintage merch and fan crap, the exhibit features a ten foot tall “Kittypatra” statue by Simone Legno of Tokidoki and a robot thing. Holy hell. “Hello Kitty […]
Here are some art, film, music and other things happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 64°F LOW 54°F In theaters: Critically acclaimed indie Whiplash, latest Bill Murray doing Bill Murray stuff in St. Vincent. Edward Snowden documentary premiere, Citizenfour at New York […]
Damien Hirst has a show of new work up in London that’s comprised entirely of giant pills. If that sounds like you’ve heard it before, it’s probably because he’s known for doing pill cabinet sculptures as much as he’s known for dead animals in formaldehyde and making colored spots. But these are BIG pills. Those were LITTLE […]
A cute Buenos Aires exhibit featuring Barbie dolls modified to resemble various religious figures, Catholic saints, and mythological characters has been cancelled, reports the AFP. According to the gallery director, artists Marianela Perelli and Pool Paolini “were threatened by Argentine Catholic groups that were going to come the day of the opening” and “everything has been suspended for security reasons.” Some Hindu leaders were […]
In 2011, Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton, unveiled her ultimate vanity project: the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Exquisitely designed by architect Moshe Safdie, the world-class art institution reportedly cost over a billion dollars and sits on a 24-acre site that meticulously incorporates the woodsy, natural surroundings. It’s about a five […]
