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But there is a pregnant bunny. Significantly less suggestive than the last cover of the oversized art/fashion glossy, which featured [link NSFW] a butterfly sticker that peeled off to reveal a Damien Hirst butterfly tattoo on the labia majora of a young London woman, but in that bunny's pregnant belly there is still the hint of rabbit sex, so there's that. More »
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What if Venus had "modeled" for Victoria's Secret instead of Botticelli? Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano took a Photoshop scalpel to 12 famous nude Venuses to see what art history class would've been like "if the aesthetic standard of our society had belonged to the collective unconscious of the great artists of the past." As a result, rounded bellies become concave, modest bosoms are augmented, and thighs are minimized. More »
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In 1807, New Jersey schoolgirl Mary Antrim embroidered a simple pastoral scene onto linen using silk thread. Do you think it ever crossed her mind that her pastime could one day lead to a $1.07 million bid at an auction? Well, that's exactly what it did, setting the auction record for needle work, this past Sunday at Southby's. More »
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Josh Siegel brings you animal art every Monday. Add your own requests in the comments, and maybe Josh will draw an animal for you. More »
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We rarely promote random products that we ourselves have not purchased — and when it comes to stuff pushed at us by PR folks? Almost never. But. An email landed in our inboxes from a man named Whit Hiler, and it read: More »
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You probably made an ass of yourself the last time you were drunk, but as long as you didn't rub your ass on any expensive artwork there's someone out there who's more mortified than you are. Yesterday 36-year-old Carmen Tisch was charged with felony criminal mischief for punching, scratching, and sliding her butt against a painting worth $30 million. Police suspect that Tisch was drunk when she assaulted "1957-J no.2" by Clyfford Still in a Denver museum devoted to the late artist, causing $10,000 worth of damage. A spokeswoman for the D.A.'s office says, "You have to wonder where her friends were," and that's an important message: Friends don't let friends go on a drunken rampage in an art gallery. More »
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Now that Barbie is working about 16 jobs at once (everything from princess to zoo doctor!), her life has gotten a little out of control. As a modern woman, it's hard for her to keep things neat and tidy on the home front—and who can blame her? That Malibu Dreamhouse is not gonna clean itself. As a result, it looks like Barbie has developed a little bit of a hoarding problem—at least if you believe artist Carrie M. Becker's vision of how Barbie is living at the moment. More »
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Helen Frankenthaler, an artist who helped develop a style of painting known as Color Field, has died at the age of 83. Though she was one of the most famous female artists of her generation, she said she never thought of herself as a "lady painter." More »
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Last night, Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art held a gala for An Artist's Life: Manifesto, directed by Marina Abramovic — any Hollywood celebs wouldn't be Hollywood celebs if they didn't show up in their best attempts at looking "artsy." If having a stylist and a hair and makeup team for the purpose of creating a public image that is essentially a completely manufactured commodity is still within the confines of art, then yes, some succeeded. More »
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Cheese is wonderful in so many ways: it's rich, it's creamy, it's delicious, it's nutritious, and you can melt it on top of vegetables to make them taste better. But did you know that you can also make beautiful art out of cheese? Indeed you can! And nobody does it better than Sarah Kaufmann, aka "the Cheese Lady," who is one of three professional cheese sculptors in the country. (There are only three? It seems like there should be a lot more than that!) More »
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You know that feeling you get at 2 a.m. where you suddenly feel like you wanna build something out of things you'd find in your closet or under your bathroom sink? Well, Laurel Roth ran with that feeling. More »
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If you live in or are visiting New York City or its environs and you do not go see the Carsten Höller show that just opened at the New Museum, I don't want to ever see your Philistine face in here again. Okay? Okay. There's a pill-clock. And one experiential piece that employs a simple sensory illusion to make you feel like your nose is growing, and then shrinking, and then growing, and the trick is so simple but so weird that I just can't stop thinking about it. There's also a huge aquarium inset with three Plexiglass alcoves, sized just right that you can lie back, stick your head in one, and look really closely at all the fish; a bird-cage mobile filled with singing finches; and an immersion tank you can float in. But really, let's cut to the chase here: you want to do the slide. It's like a trippier, colder, faster waterpark slide, and it goes right through two floors of the museum. You catch flashes of the other artworks through the glass windows in the tube, and it bottoms out in a darkened room full of flashing white neon lights. I did it three times! The people in the flashing room clap when you finish, and how long has it been since you saw that in a museum? Just because Höller's slides are all famous — Miuccia has one in her office! — doesn't make it hack-y or in any way lame to really, really love the slide. Just do the slide. Then get back to me. Don't worry, I'll wait here. More »
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Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our daily recommendation of random things that we've actually spent our own money on. These are the things we buy regularly or really like, things we'd actually tell our friends about. And now we're telling you. More »
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Urologists can't afford to giggle like 7th graders every time someone brings up balls, but recently Canadian doctors spotted something too incredible to ignore: A man's face in an ultrasound of a patient's testicular tumor. More »
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For many of us, The Joy of Sex was our first (usually accidental) introduction to pubes. For its publishers, it was a challenge — how do you show people how to have sex without showing actual, well, sex? Very carefully, it turns out. More »
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This may be one of the earliest images in Western art of a woman giving birth, but that isn't the only reason it's incredible; it was found by a student who's legally blind. William Nutt of the University of Texas at Arlington found the 2,600-year-old relief on a fragment of a pot in an ancient Etruscan site near Florence, Italy. "I used dental tools and a sharpened trowel to slide along the ground. I'd run my hands along the soil, feeling and uncovering different layers," says Nutt. "The image is unique because in the classical world, we don't see a lot of birthing scenes." In January Nutt and the other researchers will be present their findings to the Archaeological Institute of America. More »
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"Macaco Gordo" — or "The Fat Monkey" in English — is a 45-foot long, florescent-colored monkey that resides in the middle of a park in Sao Paolo, Brazil. This monkey statue is different, though, because he isn't made from bronze, stone, or even plaster of paris — he's made from 10,000 pairs of flip flops. The installation comes from the mind of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, who enlisted the help of local art students to create the sculpture. More »
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Are paintings and plays too dull for you? Perhaps you'd rather get your art in the form of watching an actual woman give birth for real right in front of you? Now you can do just that at a gallery in Brooklyn. A pregnant performance artist named Marni Kotak is planning to give birth to her first child in front of an audience at the Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, obviously. More »
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Rion Sabean is a 26-year-old photography student who has started a series of "Men-Ups," in which men who embody what society considers to be manly — bearded, blue collar types —are shot in poses usually reserved for ultra-feminine pin-up girls. The result is not only funny but thought-provoking, and we asked Rion to tell us about his project. More »
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Replaceface is a project by UK-based artist Steve Payne in which he photoshops current faces from our time onto the bodies of Russian war generals in the 1800s. The bodies come from paintings of George Dawe in 1812, the subjects of which successfully fought Napoleon in the Patriotic War of 1812. More »
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If this time of year leaves you longing for the days of your annual spending spree at Staples, revel Megan Whitmarsh's embroidered school supplies, which artfully recreate those school supply classics with fabric, batting, and embroidery thread. Just looking at these felt Sharpies causes me to want to purchase a new set of markers, despite the fact that my job requires nothing more than a keyboard. More »
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What's the one thing on earth you can add to a great work of art to make it better? A fat cat. The paintings of Botticelli, Rubens, Dali, Titian, and others have been "spruced up" by digital mastermind Svetlana Petrova at Fat Cat Art by inserting a plump orange kitty with a hilarious expression. That's Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," above. Click through for the rest! (If your boss has something against ancient, painted asses, be aware that it's slightly NSFW.) More »
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Just one month after unleashing a statue of Justin Bieber and lady love Selena Gomez nude and conjoined at the waist, controversial artist Daniel Edwards has released "Memorial Portrait for Amy Winehouse." He says Facebook fans begged him to do a tribute to Winehouse and adds: More »
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There was a closing party for Ryan Trecartin's show "Any Ever" at the Museum of Modern Art's contemporary space, PS1, on Wednesday night, co-hosted by the museum and an online magazine called DIS. There was candy, and an open bar, and Trecartin's incredible video installations, which are about capitalism and market research and reality TV and the suburbs and youth the ways in which the contemporary environment makes us human beings complicit in — or even seek — our own commodification. Does that make it sound really boring, or not funny? It is actually very funny. More »
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The video game art by Aled Lewis creates a whole new storyline and dialogue to different Nintendo characters. Among them, this rendering of the tanooki/racoon suit that gives Mario the power of flight and the problem it poses for his girlfriend, Peach. More »
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Pop magazine tapped Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramović as a cover star for its latest issue. Abramović made and dressed up a doll to look like herself during "The Artist Is Present," her landmark 2010 Museum of Modern Art show. The artist posed with the doll herself for one cover, and had Danish model Freja Beha Erichsen pose with it for a second. More »
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We just got an exclusive look at the cover of Dasha Zhukova's Garage magazine's debut issue. And there's a set of tattooed labia on it. More »
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Pollock and Basquiat got their biopics — now it's time for another artistic visionary to lend her life to the silver screen. Brought to you by the Upright Citizens Brigade and Diamonds Wow, the story of Lisa Frank's misunderstood genius, meteoric rise, and heroic stand against the philistines of a school supplies conglomerate is sure to be a major Oscar contender. Your heart will soar like a flying purple dolphin when Lisa says her famous line: "No one's going to trap me, and no one's going to keep me!" More »
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A group of Italian restorers have been accused of essentially ruining a classic work of art called the Tree of Fertility by getting rid of a tree "festooned with penises and testicles over a group of nine women, one of whom appears to be attempting to snag a penis with a hook." More »
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Artist Daniel Edwards, who previously sculpted Britney giving birth, Angelina breastfeeding twins, and the Octomom octopus, is at it again with a life-size bronze statue of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. The teens are nude and conjoined at the waist, with a Canadian maple leaf and a Texas Lone Star covering their genitals. At their feet, a Canadian goose mounts an armadillo from behind. You know, totally normal stuff! More »
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The latest Justice League comic book has been revealed, and we feel like Wonder Woman looks a little bit over-sexualized. Bleeding Cool points out an artist's imagination of what our male superheros would look like if they were posed just as sexually. We think they look ...good? More »
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The "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed on Sunday having drawn over 650,000 visitors, and in the process, becoming one of the ten most popular shows in the museum's 141-year history. Measured in attendance, McQueen is now up there with Tutankhamun, the Mona Lisa, and Picasso. People waited in lines for upwards of five hours just to get in to see dresses, including those pictured above in images from the exhibition catalog. More »
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Occasionally, a Lifetime movie comes along that seems almost like a real movie. The inspiration for this week's slideshow, The Watch, is one such film, a horror flick that sets itself up with all the classic horror tropes: a villain whose face you barely see, slow pacing, music that gets loud when a terrifying figure approaches from behind. It's legitimately scary at times — subtle, even — and it feels all wrong. If we wanted to watch a good movie, we'd be watching Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story. But by the end all is restored. Everything has fallen properly to shit. There's a woman who loves a worthless man, a potential murder, and a ghost ventriloquist. Never change, dear Lifetime. Never change. More »
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Did you know Barbie's had over 120 careers since 1959? Along with dabbling in computer engineering, she's also planning a big move into architecture this fall—but obviously she'll need an eco-friendly cantilever mansion to call her own. More »
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Love! Stop Motion! Neon colors! Post-it notes! More »
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Prompted by nothing in particular, besides boredom, Melborne artist Thomas Pavitte did a quick online search to see what the world's largest connect the dots puzzle was. When his searches returned nothing, he decided to set the world record on his own by creating his own variation of the Mona Lisa, made out of 6,239 dots. More »
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A Japanese artist who goes by the name Sputniko! (punctuation included) has designed and built a machine that simulates the experience of menstruation, for use by those who don't spend a week dripping blood and uterine lining out of their genitals by dint of biology. The device includes electrodes to induce abdominal cramps, and, from the looks of this video, some kind of slowly released red fluid. More »
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When Nik received a crap text about some dude's ex-girlfriend, she decided to cross-stitch it, resulting in this masterpiece. She writes, "Now I'm debating on whether to add an old-school border in a grandma-esque motif. Either way, it's getting mounted in a frame and hung on my apartment wall to remind me every day of the sitcom that is my life." More »
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Simone Massoni's "12 Famous Fairy Tales In Pieces" seeks to demonstrate who our beloved fairytale characters are like on the inside — and what actually happened after the happy ending in each of the following stories. More »
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Have you heard about Pippa Middleton's ass? Apparently it looked quite nice at the royal wedding. And a lot of people like it! Now comes a new tribute, made completely out of crumpets — what could possibly be more British than that? More »
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