Tag: INTERVIEW
Artist Jennifer Maravillas is mapping Brooklyn, all of Brooklyn. “The name of my map is 71 Square Miles because that’s how big the borough is,” she tells ANIMAL, peeling old crinkled flyers off posts and picking up scribbled-up, torn-out paper from the sidewalk. “I’m interested in trash because it shows so much about people’s lives. It’s language and […]
Last week, ANIMAL videotaped artist Anthony Antonellis getting an RFID chip implanted into a fleshy part of his left hand — from the initial slice of the skin, to the stretching and pulling apart of the flesh, to the implantation to the… TA-DA!.. functionality. The RFID chip stores Anthony’s unique 1KB favicon gradient GIF and is readable by compatible mobile devices […]
“Kids love walking into a space knowing that no one’s looking at them or after them. They feel like it’s home. That’s when they start to have fun,” says Seva Granik, the laser-obsessed party boy behind Club Shade, a roving underground party that’s been the most recent toast of New York City’s demimonde. Granik, a […]
“Only the stitches hurt, because I looked at them,” artist Anthony Antonellis says, trying not to itch the incision site between the thumb and index finger. He says it didn’t hurt when the Brooklyn body modification specialist cut open the skin with a 0.75 inch blade or when he stuck the long, blade-less installer inside, pushing and […]
On an early Thursday morning, I met Carlos Rodriguez by the dog run at Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The vigilante animal rescuer has been coming here almost every day for the past three years, picking up maimed and abandoned animals — dogs, cats, baby squirrels, even a rooster and a genie hen. He rehabilitates them at […]
The Cronut — a hybrid between a croissant and a donut — has dominated foodie news for months, so ANIMAL decided finally to check out this sugary craze firsthand. With throngs of people lining up every morning in hope of securing the elusive pastry — only two are allowed per customer — we set a […]
A new video interview with the back-home-to-NYC-bound director of L.A.’s MoCA museum Jeffrey Deitch has just surfaced in which he is being interviewed by filmmaker Jesse Dylan, son of the well-known singer, songwriter, and recent portrait painter Bob Dylan. During the course of the six-minute interview, Deitch explains what it was like seeing the first artwork […]
Bunny Rogers’ solo Shades of berny at the Appendix Space in Portland, Oregon is about the overlap in sexualization and exploitation of children and animals. It’s the story of Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Little Red Riding Hood, but not the story you’d like to be thinking about. She does. She thinks about death, sex […]
“We’ve had a lot of requests for rap videos,” photographer Alexander Porter says. “I just shot one yesterday.” In a basement Bushwick art studio, by the stacks of DSLRs and Kinect sensor bits, creative coder James George shows me how the RGBDToolkit works, again. Since 2011, George and Porter’s innovative toolkit has been ricocheting through the New York art-tech community. It’s just […]
Over 800 artists from from places as far as South Korea and New Zealand, age five to 70-something, some renowned, other less so, submitted 2,400 MetroCard-based works to “Single Fare 3.” “With the exception of a couple of pieces that showed up totally damaged, every single thing we got was hung,” exhibit organizer Jean-Pierre Roy tells […]
