PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An aspiring hip-hop artist who boasts about her talent for underground “body sculpting” has one last chance to impress a jury before the panel weighs murder charges…
Side Street By DAVID GONZALEZ Fernando Miteff was inside an empty subway car waiting for the go-ahead from a friend who stood sentry by an open door, scanning the platform…
A Gothic hip-hop artist charged with killing a London break dancer she injected with low-grade silicone said Friday she never heard any complaints from the numerous transgender women who sought…
Museums all over the world are working to ban the beloved selfie stick, but Australian artist Jesse Willesee isn’t having it. As a conceptual artist, Willesee is all about the…
The anonymous street artist Banksy released a series of new works Wednesday in Gaza, all commenting on the dire situation of the 1.8 million Palestinian residents confined to the area….
It is 117 years since the birth of the Belgian painter René Magritte. The 117th anniversary is the most important for any surrealist, so we can expect events, exhibitions and…
Mariam Ghani’s apartment is a map to her layered identity. Books rise from floor to ceiling, black binders of redacted Guantánamo Bay interrogations sharing shelf space with critical theory and…
Danish media say several shots have been fired at a cafe in Copenhagen where a meeting about freedom of speech was being held, organized by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who…
Tomie Ohtake, the celebrated Japanese-Brazilian artist known for her bold, primary colored abstract paintings and gravity-defying monumental sculptures, has died, the institute bearing her name said. She was 101. In…
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)…
In 2012, Brooklyn-based artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh embarked upon a project titled “Stop Telling Women to Smile.” The series, comprised of portraits pasted on the sides of buildings, aimed to combat…
Not quite his tempo. Having just won his fourth Grammy, you wouldn’t think “Weird Al” Yankovic would be rusty, but every artist needs practice to stay fresh and keep their…
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…
Would Picasso have donated 271 works to an electrician who worked for him for a few years in southeast France? A French court began to contemplate that mystery on Tuesday…
A group of golden animal heads by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei representing the signs of the zodiac is up for sale in London. – A larger version of Ai’s zodiac…
MTV named Jacquie Lee an artist to watch in 2015, and she’s certainly living up to that title. The 17-year-old singer, who placed second on season5 of “The Voice,” recently…
Sam Smith won Best New Artist at the Grammys on Sunday. He saved the inspirational words for all the other awards he’s (probably) going to win tonight, using the speech…
after an improbably long life, considering the self-inflicted abuse he endured through the years — at 83 in Lawrence, Kansas. It’s somehow perversely appropriate that an iconoclast of Burroughs’ power…
This post originally appeared on artnet News. Brian Boucher Jamian Juliano-Villani, Animal Proverb, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 36 by 24 inches. New York artist Jamian Juliano-Villani is being accused by…
For most sculptors, a stable work of art is something of a priority. Not so for kinetic artist and designer Ralfonso. – Watch the video above to find out more.
All through his most recent American tour, the British singer Sam Smith has been stunned by the size of his crowds. When he first played in Philadelphia, last March, it…
Those same folks apparently rushed to iTunes to download Elliott’s music. Eight of her songs cracked the iTunes top 200 chart, including 2002’s “Work It,” 2001’s “Get Ur Freak On”…
An artist is crediting Banksy’s works with turning his life around. Jamie Scanlon, who uses the moniker “JPS,” is a graffiti artist in Weston-super-Mare, England, with difficult backstory. Though he…
Hip-hop artist Iggy Azalea is slated to release a shoe collaboration with Steve Madden in February, but it seems like there might be a little trouble in paradise. Earlier Thursday,…
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…
Pedro Lemebel, the Chilean writer, artist, activist, and provocateur, died last Friday morning of laryngeal cancer. By the afternoon, newspapers in Latin America and Spain teemed with tributes. In his…
How’s your day going so far? Only okay? Well we’re about to kick things up a few hundred notches with this most beautiful of illustrations, a badass rendering of stoner…
There is something inexplicably gripping about music’s ability to resurface moments and feelings from specific points in your life. We all have those albums or songs. But what about an…
“Last week, the staff of The New Yorker made its final preparations to leave 4 Times Square, its headquarters for the past fifteen years, to join the rest of Condé…
Warning: This post contains lots of (painted) nudity. Read at your own risk. – If you love the bewilderment of optical illusions and the ever entrancing beauty of body paint…