Tag: Video
The art fairs are upon us! Follow ANIMAL as we stumble strategically through most of most of them. Next up, The Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, a favorite. That gyrating form above is a low-res gif version of Rollin Leonard’s new video installation. Now imagine looking down at it in 4K Ultra High-definition. To create the moving image, Leonard built […]
If you enjoyed the mind-melting malleable paper skull sculpture by Li Hongbo, he’s currently exhibiting at the Klein Sun Gallery in New York. Here’s some slow-motion video documentation of the sculptures by Kid Guy Collective’s Todd Martin. When the classical porcelain-like Greek and Renaissance busts begin to fall apart, melt and stretch and fall back together… Don’t worry. That’s just […]
This fireworks festival happens once a year at the end of the Chinese New Year in the Yanshui District of Tainan City, Taiwan. “Here, thousands of bottle rockets are ignited from a ‘beehive’ to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to those who are in the path of the rockets,” Farnworth writes. Those who are […]
“It’s really important for artists to have a resource where they could get art supplies that aren’t from a corporation,” Arielle Avenia tells ANIMAL, showing us around the 10 x 12 Aftermath Supplies space at Brooklyn’s Silent Barn. (See our video tour above.) Since January 2013, Avenia and her business partner Devin Lilly have been selling donated, salvaged […]
Here’s the latest installment of MOCAtv’s Building Detroit mini-doc series with DABLS, Dmytro Szylak and ANIMAL favorite Monica Canilao. Part 1 featured writers REVOK and POSE, a giant tribute to the late NEKST going up on the side of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and walls used as infinite canvases for graffiti and street art. Part 2 focuses […]
Here’s a special fan rap video from Max Piff (rapper, producer) and Yung Jake (featured rapper, director). Absolutely best line is at 2:51 from Yung Jake regarding Larry David’s please no stop n chat policy, because he’s 2 real. And I say that with absolutely no bias despite being a Yung Jake fangirl / Yung Jake’s digital art […]
Yesterday, there were fireworks and catapults with flaming bricks, as uprising citizens in Ukraine’s “protest zone” were being mass texted: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.” Today, the photos and videos coming through social media directly from the front lines have lost any touch of cinematic dystopia. It’s simply war. […]
Here’s a mesmerizing video by Adam Magyar who shot commuters waiting for the train at 42nd Street Grand Central station in slow motion. This is an excerpt of Stainless. The original footage is nearly 11 minutes. The backdrop sounds like the rattle of a rushing train, slowed down. You can see hair flips frozen in motion. […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week New York-based artists Mike Bailey-Gates and Claire Christerson share detailed storyboards and lists for their recent video piece The Cherub Garden, inspired by Marie Antoinette and Peter Greenaway. When we thought of this project, we were inspired by our collection […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Los Angeles-born, Brooklyn-based street artist Buff Monster talks about creating his new mural in Williamsburg. Read about his process and check out our video interview below. I rarely ever draw, and when I do, it’s always very very […]