Tag: Art
Yes, that lamp has DEER HOOF FEET. No, that’s not Twin Peaks. Remember Aram Bartholl’s digital art glory hole at the Museum of Moving Image in Queens? Volume 5 in launching today! Through March 14, bring your blank dvd to the DVD Dead Drop and it shall spit out the Best of Fach & Asendorf Gallery of net art, compiled by […]
Okuizomo, a town in Japan, has an art problem. They really appreciate the replica of Michelangelo’s David donated by a local businessman, but because of the statue’s lack of clothes, the citizens’ feathers are a little ruffled. There’s also a Venus de Milo replica, and it’s near a playground for children. That seems like an […]
Engineers at FliteTest have mounted a medium format Lomography camera onto a remote-controlled tricopter, finally bring all the fuzzy, light-leaky, vignetting and grain that super secret spy footage has been begging for. The “Lomo-Copter” comes equipped with another first-person-view camera mounted to the Lomo-cam’s view finder, transmitting real-time footage to the drone operator’s stylish goggles. […]
This is Jeff Gipe’s contribution to “Single Fare 3.” Eye-catching, isn’t it? Following the grand success of “Single Fare” and “Single Fare 2,” Michael Kagan, Jean-Pierre Roy and RH Gallery are about to unveil yet another exhibit of New York City MTA MetroCards reincarnated as art. Details here. They’re amazing. Seriously. They look so good. You should go. “Single Fare,” Various […]
Last night just before closing time at the Lens branch of the Louvre Museum, a 28-year-old woman with a “French-sounding name” transformed defaced Eugene Delacroix’s epic 1830 painting Liberty Leading The People. Either an ardent supporter of King Charles X of France, or more likely a 9/11 Truther, the woman scralled “AE911,” shorthand for “Architects […]
Indie developer Pippin Barr, known for his 8-bit simulation of Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present, has expanded his scope in an ambitious attempt to render the entirety of the New York City visual art world as video game. The biting microcosm Art Game offers you the experience of battling the impenetrable vision of one curator in […]
La Pietà Rondanini, a sculture Michelangelo worked on for 12 years and still left unfinished when he died in 1564, is going to jail — for now. Despite some “vociferous opposition” from art historians, the Milanese culture commissioner has ordered to move the work from it’s swank home at the Castello Sforzesc where 350,000 visitors […]
The Vine app has recently launched — allowing users to easily shoot and share six second video clips, effortlessly. Naturally, it’s been flooded with babies, puppies, penises and food. And penises. Also, boobs. The NSFW vines can be easily located and so, yesterday, the app slapped itself with an NC-17 rating, oooooh. And so, ANIMAL is proud […]
Happy birthday, London Underground. The world’s oldest subterranean railway hits big one-five-oh this year. To commemorate, artist Mark Wallinger was commissioned to make 270 unique works, one for each station in the network. Ten in this new series “Labyrinth” have just been unveiled. The stark black-on-white maze designs are simple but alluring — perhaps too […]
Here’s the cover of Dasha Zhukova’s Garage art magazine that hits the stands February 9th. Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman? Cindy Sherman. Cindy… Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman Sherman Cindy Cindy Cindy Cindy Sherman? Oh, ho, ha-ha, Sherman, yes. Sherman. Fuckin’ creepy. Even Cindy says so: I like how creepy the photos turned out, even though they don’t really look […]
