Animal Collective & Danny Perez took over the Guggenheim Museum (pics & review)

Where's the art?

Forgot one pic: http://hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com/post/428438023/since-noodles-went-through-the-trouble-of-finding

After reading a couple of reviews, I'm actually a little more relieved that I wasn't able to go. After being shut out of the initial tickets, I thought this would be a once in a lifetime event, not I realized it was not quite as momentous.

Looks like it would have been cool for about 10 min, or if you were under the influence of something other than alcohol.

"or if you were under the influence of something other than alcohol."

BINGO.

Seriously. Worst $30 ever spent.

I used to do a lot of acid and go to raves and stuff and I think back then this would have been an amazing night, but now... meh!

it looks like there was a face painting booth. how fun.

all AC's side things are soooo overrated and a waste of your time and money.
the dj party, the film and this too.
the art was a HUGE fart !!
the "music was forgettable, the screenings a bore.
just the 36 speakers sound design for that space was fantastic.
not a good production on the museum part as well.
all in all, amateurs night.

this. looks. terrible.

@2:58

I was under the influence of alchohol and other things...It still sucked.

The reviewer is right though that this was much better served in using A.C. as the backdrop to enjoying the Guggenheim and not the other way around.

BTW- You wouldn't have had to pay. The early show they just let people in who had a valid ID. They never checked a thing.

There aren't enough drugs in the world to make this seem tolerable

"Where's the art?"
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It's hard to hear a sound installation through pictures.

Controversial, in-depth analysis of why this sucked to follow in 5, 4, 3.....

my god this looks bad. Animal Collective have their heads officially firmly placed up their own arses. Someone should seriously edit them a bit, this is getting ridiculous.

embarrassed for the people who paid for this. At least you got some free face paint right?

wow

It is time these guys went away! Fakers

It is time these guys went away! Fakers
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was the run of Sung Tongs > Feels > Strawberry Jam > MPP fake?

i went to the first show, i was just waiting for them at the end to be like "so how does it feel to be fucked outta $30". A.C. can suck it

Campfire Songs, and Feels .. that was it for me.

I don't think AC have "their heads up their own arses". If you ever watch an interview or speak with them, they are the most humble normal dudes ever. The Guggenheim asked them to play a show, but they are on a touring hiatus from live music, so they decided to do this instead. They like to be as involved as they can in their projects, which is why avey/deacon/geo were the three masked dudes.

I'm not sure what people were expecting, but they clearly weren't aiming for the zenith of art in the last decade. Even ODDSAC, I think most of you indier-than-thou bloggers were expecting it to be some sort of breakthrough in surrealist art and film, but it really wasn't the goal of the project. They just wanted to put music through a visual filter via Danny Perez, and the finished product was actually pretty great. I went in with no expectations and was pleasantly surprised.

Thank fucking god my girl had a great sense of humor. This was probably a disastrous first date for someone.

i agree with all of you to an extent...but they pulled this off in 3 weeks

Guggenheim billed it as a performance piece and it was just an installation. Resultingly, the crowd simply waited for the "show" to start, limiting anyone's ability to freely explore the space (the ground floor was packed with indian-style seaters, and the balconies were lined with people holding onto their spots like grim death.

If people had known it was just and art installation i think A) there would have been a lot less people B) people would have come and gone freely and it would never have been as crowded at one point in time.

that being said - the "art" was really weak. winamp has better visualization plugins.

Yeah, thankfully I could only get one ticket or it would have been a first date situation for me.

piggybacking off their name to sell tix for the gugg

I get the feeling a lot of you don't go to a lot of DIY art installations. Buncha hipsters expecting to have their minds blown because the Animal Collective name was attached to it and coming up disappointed.

Guggenheim Mehseum

I feel pity for all the (l)(p)osers who thought this was cool just because it was Animal Collective. It plainly sucked.

''Fuck Art, Let's Dance!"

Guggenheim Mehseum

I went to the earlier show not knowing what to expect and with no expectations. It was interesting for the first hour and it was definitely cool to just run around the guggenheim, but it did get repetitive and I left pretty early. not the worst $30 I've spent, but I would have felt better if it was $15

Were there any Republicans at this? I am taking a poll.

Guggenheim houses about 1,000 ppl. - 2x shows - $30 a pop. $60,000 ain't a bad take for those animalistically collecting

3:44 - not bad for one night's "work" of standing motionless

3:37 - Exactly!

3:44 - that's some bad math

This wasn't free? People actually paid money for this? God lord, you people are gullible.

So all the "haters" that said this was going to be dogshit in the original thread were actually... *gasp* RIGHT?

Big effing shocker there.

I find it interesting that so many of you hate on Animal Collective yet you are always at their events and feel the need to weigh in on their every move. Seems like a double standard at best. Just move on and let the people enjoy.

"If you ever watch an interview or speak with them, they are the most humble normal dudes ever."

If I pay $30 for a performance, I better fucking not get "humble" and "normal."

Animal Collective may be nice guys, but they're not groundbreaking trailblazers - they're placeholders at the banquet of art.

Capacity was 1,500 for these shows, so figure more like $90,000 was made at the door.

oddsac sucked a major choner

I heard they made $1 million at this event and didn't have to pay anybody. I saw the director of the Guggenheim standing in line at 5/3 holding a sack of cash and laughing about hipster fucks.

There's no 5/3 Banks in NYC, you country bumpkin.

No 5/3 in NYC? Sounds like your city is the bumpkin one.

It's easy to hate, harder to create.

5/3 is the time signature of most Animal Collective songs.

Bumpkin moves to NYC (probably from Ohio), looks for 5/3 bank like he had at home, realizes there aren't any there. Later he gets to use this information to put down someone in snarky blog comments. Bumpkin feels a little better about himself.

I don't understand why fans can't be critical of a band without being called haters.

Bumpkin receives Blumpkin, feels better.

4:11 just outed themselves.

4:21 - OH NOESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!11

Maybe the point is, he's in Bumblefuck County and even HE heard that Animal Collective were laughing at the HIPSTERS. HA HA HA all the way to Ma's Olde Tyme Bank Shoppe.

I'm sure their 3-d Joseph Capmpell would be even better...same budget of course...Anti-Retro!!!

Why do people from other parts of the country read & comment (negatively) on this blog? I wouldn't waste my time reading a blog about the music scene (*cough*...ha!) in Rapid City or Reno or wherever the hell you tossers are from. I'm sorry that you're stuck living in a double-wide with your folks, but seriously, get a life.

"The always challenging and ever-divisive band managed to confound plenty of their fans during the event, but to be fair, a large amount had probably never witnessed a sound installation before."

Yeah, audience. FUCK YOU if you don't get it. You've never been to a painting party thrown by a band that isn't actually playing at all in a museum? Psh, rookies.

I assumed that Animal Collective would go all out since they were able to "take over" the Guggenheim. Looks like they were either only able to do so much with the place or totally half assed it. Oh well.

Nice review though.

Portland, OR music scene is doing pretty great actually. And this blog posts music news and tour schedules, not just NYC info.

"It was perhaps better served as less of a revelatory art piece and more of a completely unique and relaxing way to view and experience one of the most beautiful indoor spaces in all of New York City." <<< This is right on. It was basically like being at the best bar in the universe, circa 3045.

4:34 - get your point - though this doesn't look much different from other art events i've attended.

and if you've been paying attention, you shouldn't have expected anything more from animal collective. even at their shows, they don't exactly go all at on the visual element. it's pretty half-assed there too - why would a one-off thing for a museum they're not affiliated with be any different?

I go to BoiseVegan.com and post shit about their bands all the time, actually.

This thread makes me happy

For anyone who has actually seen a band play at the Guggenheim, you know it's just a gigantic echo chamber anyway. Once you get over how cool it is to be seeing a band in the Guggenheim, it kinda sucks.

"Why do people from other parts of the country read & comment (negatively) on this blog? I wouldn't waste my time reading a blog about the music scene (*cough*...ha!) in Rapid City or Reno or wherever the hell you tossers are from. I'm sorry that you're stuck living in a double-wide with your folks, but seriously, get a life."

Why do people from other parts of the country think 97% of people that live in New York are little else but cartoonish, deluded scumbags? Oh, right.

If you don't live in NYC, you live in a shithole. We really should secede.

i love AC but after seeing these pics & reading reviews I'm thrilled i didn't have $30 to blow on this.
i'd envisioned each level of the Guggenheim transformed into like a psychedelic forest on one level, outer space on another, etc..
like a tripped out multicolored/luminescent rainforest type setting basically.
maybe with like some disorienting 3-d shit throughout.
i dont know..
seems like with an opportunity to use such a cool space they could've done something more amazing.
still love their music

I always thought being "cartoonish" was a good thing. BRB - I have some phone calls to make.

i'd envisioned each level of the Guggenheim transformed into like a psychedelic forest on one level, outer space on another, etc..
like a tripped out multicolored/luminescent rainforest type setting basically.
maybe with like some disorienting 3-d shit throughout.

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why would you think this? they're a fucking indie rock band, not the Walt Disney Corporation.

$30?? Ahhhhhh...hipsters.

These are some good comments

I don't think you can get any gayer than this.

Then you should have seen the inflatable boner that was at the warmup show. Luckily it was vetoed by their tour manager.

I don't think you can get any gayer than this.

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is that how you people talk in NYC?

YOU PEOPLE?!?

/riot

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/rnc/9573/

Hisham was there

NYC is just a bunch of guido jerkoffs

Good call. Italian population is hovering at around 99% in NYC.

even on acid this was stupid

we got robbed

$30 and they didnt even check tickets.

screw AC, Perez and the gugg for ripping us all off.

that took a few hours to set up and they made a killing.

honestly for a band that is trying to represent something real they did a good job at taking a page out from the corporate handbook... using pr and tricky lingo to fool people into thinking they were going to something epic...fuckin bastards

That was Pitchfork (and the Guggenheim?) talking this thing up. What we got is exactly what I expected.

haha you are all idiots.
the band didn't get 100% of ticket money (for what ever genius thinks they made $60,000) if any at all. my guess is they didn't make a cent on this.
and it wasn't at terminal 5 , or roseland, it was at the f*cking guggenheim. duh.
if you have ever been to a performance piece you wouldn't be so upset... and as far as fakers?
yeah, you are right, the REAL bands who do it for the MUSIC and FANS, like fall out boy or greenday would def have the balls to do something like this...
see you guys at hot topic, and hope we arent wearing the same plaid shirt or fitted hat!
oops that would be embarrassing

I took my date to the 9pm show promising it would be amazing. I was so embarrassed! Good thing we drove..we were so outta there by 10:15.

i had a good time. they probably couldve done more, but as someone said before it was pretty much on a whim

everyone who was expecting the performance of the century would obviously disappointed. i went in expecting to see cool visuals and hear some ambient stuff. thats what it was and it was great

same thing goes for oddsac to a certain extent.

as with anything, go in a with a clear head and open mind and you'll probably be a much happier person.

to anyone complaining about the $30 ticket price,

insurance costs for putting on a show inside an architectural landmark/museum are incredibly high, especially with alcohol served and a bunch of kids high as a kite on shrooms, acid, etc.

not to mention it was a one time only type of experience at one the the most beautiful buildings on the planet, not Total Slacker playing at Market Hotel.

It wasn't groundbreaking musically or artistically, but it was an interesting experience and at times pretty wonderful. I think you just went expecting a concert and you're upset by your own false expectations.

enjoy the surprises in life.

it was good if you didn't expect anything good

nah mean?

well said jonny boy

Most photos ever in a BV post. This took like 3 minutes to load on broadband!

"Interesting" and "surprising": two words that might as well be battle cries for the aesthetically beaten sucker.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

"to anyone complaining about the $30 ticket price,

insurance costs for putting on a show inside an architectural landmark/museum are incredibly high, especially with alcohol served and a bunch of kids high as a kite on shrooms, acid, etc.

not to mention it was a one time only type of experience at one the the most beautiful buildings on the planet, not Total Slacker playing at Market Hotel.

It wasn't groundbreaking musically or artistically, but it was an interesting experience and at times pretty wonderful. I think you just went expecting a concert and you're upset by your own false expectations.

enjoy the surprises in life."

bingo. i dont think the band had a lot of time to throw this together, and at the same time i would argue that watching the crowd I had a pretty odd sensation people were expecting a bit more than they got. for a bunch of people too cool for school I'm really seeing a lot of assholey bitchiness here.
i have my qualms with it, but that doesnt mean that the guggenheim and animal collective are responsible for a bunch of uptight twenty somethings having a bad night. if you were there and you took the time to relax and unwind, it was pretty great actually.
hanging out with friends in the cathedral of sound that was the guggenheim amidst a day glo camp fire? badass.
also, how many of you guys have even been to the guggenheim prior to this event?

I just wanted to say that this thread is absolute internet GOLD.

Well done, trolls, haters, and lovers. Keep it up.

Awesome Pics!!

Crosseyed Sniper,

I'll have a much more elaborate artistic assessment of the performance on artinfo.com on monday. I'll try to describe without adjectives such as interesting and surprising just for you.

—aesthetically beaten sucker

u didnt take enough pictures, dude. & why no creepy upskirt shots? or portraits of a douche wearing his scarf like the gold medal of douchiness?

& why arent there more comments on this post?

also, no shots of ppl in facepaint. or closeups of the masks. i think u need to make a part 2 of this post. & seriously, u ppl have to start posting comments on this thing

this was amazing!!!!!
the speaker system was awesome... it sounded like the building was being attacked by ghosts

Building was attacked by ghosts. 34 casual ties. All was enjoyed by all. If you went and had a bad time you suck at enjoyment.

this looks awesome. right the fck on.

I hate music so much!

I did not go to this, nor did I want to. But anyone else think it is cool Deakin was there? Not cool that he was there, but cool he was with the band, perhaps he will be back on their next record?

to the commenter who said that this was best enjoyed as a unique environment to hang out in, and the other one who said that it was like being at the best bar in the year 3000-whatever - you guys got it.

it was a god damn museum, people. how was this any different from paying your $20 to go see a featured exhibit at the MoMA? except here, the exhibit was massive and relatively more engaging and only happened for 1 night.

I admit that I spent the first hour hugging the wall with my friend, waiting for the 'performance' to begin - then realized like everyone else that this was it. but walking around was a unique experience. being there reminded me a lot of being at a rave, except in a really cool location.

but was it worth $30 or waking up at 10am that morning a couple weeks ago to buy the tickets? nope.

Great photography

Wonderful words

Always a pleasure seeing things from this photojournalists point of view...

Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at- A_ge_m_i_n_g_le @ c-o--m a nice and free place for Younger- Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to- interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends.

I thought it was pretty amazing. (Though I was pretty stoned.) The music swirled around and up and down the tower. There were different things that stood out depending on where you were on the ramp. There was wine and beer, and it was a really cool and mellow PS1-Warm Up type of atmosphere. Sorry if you were disappointed; it did clearly say that the music was recorded if you had bothered to read the website.

There is no debate. This was dumb and a waste of money. If you are going to charge 30 bucks and use an iconic space at least do something interesting.

ODDSAC=FLUFFSAC.

"This took like 3 minutes to load on broadband!"

Sucks to be you. Verizon Fios loaded it in less than 5 seconds for me.

whoa. seems like it was a unique experience. as such how can you judge it negatively, there's nothing to compare it too. i see nothing in the comments about the music. tell us about the music.

Man I keep showing up in all these pictures taken from the event. I had a blast. At first I was disappointed but then it turned into the most psychedelic non-drug-induced experience of my life

It looks like a queer and kinda hippy version of a Sunn show

why are people getting so upset about the fact that it was an art installation? what did you go to THE GUGGENHEIM expecting? it's an art museum, not a concert hall. i'm glad i went there with some dose in my system and my expectations in check which is why i actually had a good time!

Animal Collective:2000's::Emerson Lake and Palmer:1970's

check out a cool review from the sundance channel

http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2010/03/traverse-temporal-gyrus-a-psychedelic-evening-with-animal-collective-and-danny-perez/

Yo i like the creeper pics of the couple makin it on the couch. tight angle

3:13- You wanted Dirty Projectors for that analogy.

oddsac was awesome, this looks pretty bad but im glad that they can still piss people off after mass appeal

what ever

I'm amazed that 100% of the people (whether present or not) who bitched about the event clearly did not bother to read the description provided by both the Guggenheim and Animal Collective. At no point did either party claim it would be a concert and it is clearly stated that it would "feature original recorded music composed specifically for the event." More to the point: arty/experimental band + artist + art museum = art event. All the rage and disappointment that resulted from misguided expectations is just laughable. It seems as though people have forgotten the band's roots and their predilection for the strange and unconventional. While they have gained a little bit of prominence on the global stage, it's clear that they are not making any easy overtures to the public ("Brothersport" video anyone?). As for the evening itself, those of us who did a little bit of homework and walked in with an open mind were treated to a very special site-specific event that had wonderful strains of Stan Brakhage and Matthew Barney accompanied by a swirling sound collage that accurately captured what the artists had set out to do. Worth every penny.

55555, March 5, 2010 8:06 PM... WOW, you actually woke up at 10am on a Friday? I'm impressed.

Hey AnCo Management (aka anon 1:27),

Shut up

Best,

anon 2:05

I don't think you can get any gayer than this.

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is that how you people talk in NYC?

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Implying I'm from NYC LOL

here are my thoughts. I did not go to this event.
1. The thing that would have been most annoying for me is the fact that it looks so extraordinarily packed. Makes it seem hard to enjoy the atmosphere.
2. the price was expensive but in ny EVERYTHING is expensive. You're spending over a thousand on rent and over 10 dollars for lunch everyday so what's another 30 dollars for this. The price of this is right in line with the price of everything else in ny. that's just the way ny is. Dont blame animal collective or guggenheim. It's the city itself. Sometimes its worth it and sometimes its not.
3. Brooklyn vegan and the photographer are both piece of shit pricks for posting the picture of the two girls kissing. Seriously. Why is their picture posted? How could the photographer not be embarrassed to take that picture? And BV should have recognized it was irrelevant to the blog post. (I won't bring up the couple on the couch because they went too far. The girls didn't.)
4. I wish there was a way to find out which people posting actually went and have a real, objective opinion, and which are just animal collective haters/negative people/guggenheim shills who are biased. And you can't trust media reviews since they don't buy tickets. They either go for free or their company pays for the ticket. If you're not actually paying money than you have less at stake

^4.22, you sound like NO FUN.

dude in zebra mask, Awesome shirt!

Buh. This whole thing eats my dick.

@anon 4:22pm, chicks making out is hotttttt....ohhh yeah!

Went to the early Thursday show and was amazing under whelmed. The energy was way down. The only pulse in the place was the anxious nature of the crowd waiting for something to happen. Looking back on the description I guess we got what we paid for but come on... how many of us that went to this thing with the thought we were going to get something TOTALLY different? I would still go to see these guys but in the future I will make sure they are actually putting on a concert.

BTW do we even know if they were actually there? Who were those masked men!

"And you can't trust media reviews since they don't buy tickets. They either go for free or their company pays for the ticket. If you're not actually paying money than you have less at stake."

It's "then" not "than", and it was only 30 bucks, so let's not shit ourselves. The media can bash or love whatever they want, regardless of cost -- in fact, they're more clear-headed if they don't have to pay. Less of the whole "I payed money and I deserve exactly what I want" kind of vibe. But if you know anything at all about the "media", you would know that most blogs don't pay for much of anything, considering they don't make very much money themselves and are there to contribute to the documentation and hawking of cultural happenings so that people can come whine about it on their blogposts.

Just go research blog posts, and I'm sure you will find quite a few well-written objective articles that will give you an educated opinion (you won't find one on the fucking BROOKLYNVEGAN MESSAGE BOARD, so get over it). That's what google is for.

This looks fucking horrible.

yesh, this is the way we fuckin' talk in NYC- so blow us

i think those masks look purty though. any MD recordings of the event?

I wasn't expecting a concert I was expecting a well though out, interesting, art exhibit. Instead I got a hastily produced , sometimes generic, art school party.

When you are allowed to utilize the Guggenheim you expect something a little more than "kinda unique" or "like a fun bar"

It's clear these guys shouldn't be doing art exhibits unless they are free because what we saw there was hardly art, it was self important noodling and some crappy screen savers projected on the wall with costumes made out of glue guns and tin foil and paper mache in 10 hours.

Yeah so they didn't have a lot of time to make it. If you don't have time to make something amazing don't make it. I wouldn't want to put something half assed forward and charge for it and neither should they, but they did.

"dude in zebra mask, Awesome shirt!"
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thanks! It seemed to be a bigger hit than the mask

i really enjoyed this! so much :) bummed so many people didn't..

went with a few friends, my girl and i eventually split off and just walked around, got a glass of wine, sat on the floor for awhile. it was really pretty and fascinating. and super cool!

the person who said

'if you were there and you took the time to relax and unwind, it was pretty great actually.
hanging out with friends in the cathedral of sound that was the guggenheim amidst a day glo camp fire? badass.'

.. i agree!

really wish there wasn't so much hating... on this website and in the community / scene / society / whatever in general. nothing positive comes of it.

.. and, i know one of the two girls kissing very well.. and i'm sure she doesn't mind her picture being here! i bet she'll get a kick out of it when i tell her haha

osted by Anonymous | March 8, 2010 11:03 AM

Totally agree 100% with everything you said. It was so chill. I just got a custom poster made of the event to hang in my dorm, it looks incredible.

actually its a very nice place to go to, those images are way cooler than last time I got there lol

Great pictures
they took a while to load on my pc butvery nice

What's Danny Perez's nationality?

Guggenheim billed it as a performance piece and it was just an installation. Resultingly, the crowd simply waited for the "show" to start, limiting anyone's ability to freely explore the space (the ground floor was packed with indian-style seaters, and the balconies were lined with people holding onto their spots like grim death.

Guggenheim billed it as a performance piece and it was just an installation. Resultingly, the crowd simply waited for the "show" to start, limiting anyone's ability to freely explore the space (the ground floor was packed with indian-style seaters, and the balconies were lined with people holding onto their spots like grim death.

Merci au propriétaire du site. Nice de voir les choses nouvelles et intéressantes pour apprécier un peu la matière, vidéos, photos et articles!