Subodh Gupta Is Not A Pipe
Orange Thing. 2014. Steel, copper tongs, plastic. Photo: Genevieve Hanson. Subodh Gupta is having an identity crisis. Depending on which critic you read, the artist who famously turns kitchenware into…
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This Record Label Is Completely Dedicated To Fighting Hunger, Homelessness, More
When Texas native Jonathan Chen moved to New York City to attend college, he was struck by how many homeless people filled the streets and subways — and even more…
Japanese Photographers React To The Tragic Aftermath Of Japan’s ‘Triple Disaster’
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m., two tectonic plates at the bottom of the Japanese Trench slipped. The bump was like nothing the area had felt before. The Tohoku…
Welcome To The World Of Rawerotica, Where Eroticism Climaxes With Creation (NSFW)
Note: This post contains sex, nudity and lots of it. You’ve been warned! erotic adj. of or pertaining to passionate love; arousing or designed to arouse feelings of sexual desire;…
Ten Amazing Female Artists And Their Male Muses
A recent essay in the Telegraph entitled “The Secret Lives of the Great Artists’ Lovers” begins: “For as long as man has painted, he (and it usually is a he)…
Do The Grammys Have A Race Problem? The 2015 Grammys The Whitest In 35 Years
Just like the Oscars, conversation has been stirring about the whitewashing of the Grammys. In the past six years, Best Rap Album has gone to a white guys four times:…
Mark Ronson On Loving Steely Dan And Finding The Funk With Bruno Mars
The following article is provided by Rolling Stone. By BRIAN HIATT Mark Ronson is, at his core, a DJ and a producer for other artists — he considers his four…
Unknown Sketch Of Vincent Van Gogh (And Both His Ears) Discovered In Scrapbook
There aren’t all too many known depictions of the Post-Impressionist known as Vincent Van Gogh, aside from the artist’s own self-portraits. Thus, a recently discovered sketch of the mercurial Dutch…
‘Selma’ Wins Big At NAACP Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The civil rights drama “Selma” won top honors at the NAACP Image Awards in a ceremony that took sharp notice of snubs of African-American artists and…
Artist ‘Fights’ His Drawings, And They’re A Knockout
We often hear about the tortured relationship artists have with their work. Alex Solis takes that to a clever extreme in his “Inkteraction” series. Solis fights his character drawings in…
Artist Red Hong Yi Makes Massive Portrait Out Of 20,000 Tea Bags
Making a portrait from thousands of tea bags would find most artists steeped in frustration. Not Red Hong Yi. – H/T Digg
San Francisco Artists Daniel Green Proves The Insider/Outsider Art Binary Wrong
This is Daniel Green. Born in 1985, he’s one of the youngest artists to have exhibited at San Francisco’s Creativity Explored, a studio space and gallery for artists with developmental…
Rick Rubin Explains How Kanye Wrote ‘Only One’
Rick Rubin has worked with and produced some of the most iconic artists in history — Kanye West, Jay Z, Adele, Johnny Cash and Beastie Boys, to name a few….
In A New Take On The Selfie, This Artist Casts His Own Dead Body
An artist by the name of Jeremy Millar is freaking out art lovers en masse with his piece “Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man (The Willows),” now showing at Turner Contemporary…
‘Massive: Gay Erotic Manga And The Men Who Make It,’ Chronicles Gay Japanese Manga
Are you ready for one of the most comprehensive anthologies of Japanese gay manga available in the English language? “Massive: Gay Erotic Manga And The Men Who Make It” is…
What Is The Meaning Of Outsider Art? The Genre With A Story, Not A Style
If you’ve perused The Huffington Post Arts & Culture page at all this week, you may have noticed the spread of outsider artists gracing the site. That’s because this weekend…
Outsider Artist Paul Laffoley Illustrates The End Of The Universe
The Outsider Art Fair is coming to New York on January 29, bringing 50 international galleries of folk, self-taught, and outsider art to Center 548 for four glorious days. The…
Recreating the Odyssey, With An iPhone
If Homer had his own iPhone, he might’ve snapped shots of Ulysses on all his adventures, documenting every step of the hero’s long voyage. He might’ve taken pictures of the…
Displaying Three Decades Of LGBTQ Art Censored By Museums
In Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, opening next month at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, all of the art has previously been censored…
‘POWERED,’ NYC Dystopian Artist Showcase, Presented By Issa Israel
A relatively unknown space in Brooklyn, New York will house a showcase of multimedia art tonight in an attempt to elevate the work of artists involved in nightlife outside of…
Lessons From Beyoncé And Nicki Minaj’s Feminist Friendship
Anyone paying attention to the world of pop culture knows that it’s a hostile one, with feuds and rivalries between artists being the norm. When it comes to relationships between…
Inside The Dark And Twisted Alternate Universe Of Outsider Artist Henry Darger
The Outsider Art Fair is coming to New York on January 29, bringing 50 international galleries of folk, self-taught, and outsider art to Center 548 for four glorious days. The…
A Detroit Collage: How A Graffiti Artist, Apparel Company And Nonprofit Are Helping To Keep Art In Schools
As Detroit continues to suffer from the scorching effects of bankruptcy, art—a cultural underpinning of the iconic town—remains strong, with artists, particularly urban artists, thriving amid the ashes. Read the…
Enter The World Of Outsider Artist Aurie Ramirez, Psychedelic Jokers And All
The Outsider Art Fair is coming to New York on January 29, bringing 47 international galleries of folk, self-taught, and outsider art to Center 548 for four glorious days. The…
Madonna: Police arrested hacker who stole my songs
An undercover Israeli police investigation in collaboration with the FBI led to the suspect, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. “The Tel Aviv resident, born in 1976, was believed to…
Reality TV Show ‘Street Art Throwdown’ Promises To Discover Next Banksy
This article originally appeared on artnet News. by Cait Munro In the tradition of such great art-centric reality shows as “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” and “Gallery Girls”…
What ‘I Have A Dream’ Looks Like To Detroit Artists
In June of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech to a throng of 25,000 Detroiters. “I have a dream,” he told them, a dream of equality for…