Behold, a rather NSFW video of a Swiss performance artist pushing paint-filled eggs out of her vaginal canal, in order to produce a piece of splatter art meant as a meditation on "the creative power of the femininity." No doubt everyone will have some very strong feelings about this one! » 4/23/14 4:05pm Today 4:05pm

An art dealer who reportedly conned New York galleries out of millions of dollars was arrested this weekend. » 4/21/14 4:15pm Monday 4:15pm

A popular street artist who's rubbed elbows with Anthony Bourdain and graffitied the walls of Facebook's headquarters used his sex-talk podcast last month to describe a forceful sexual encounter with his massage therapist that sounded an awful lot like assault. » 4/18/14 4:40pm Friday 4:40pm

Sometimes being told to smile from some stranger on your block makes you want to go postal. Enter Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and her one-woman crusade against street harassment called "Stop Telling Women To Smile," which has gone from New York to Atlanta and beyond. » 4/10/14 4:45pm 4/10/14 4:45pm

My partner and I got into a car accident in December (not our fault! The other driver was wearing new shoes and somehow got them stuck on the brake) (I don't drive so I have no idea how that happens) and aside from the panic attack I had when we were struck and the burrito I ate afterwards, the only thing I remember is … » 3/29/14 12:49pm 3/29/14 12:49pm

Ready for something awesome? Check out this painting of an alien below (looks like oil on canvas, right?) and see if you can tell what's so special about it. » 3/22/14 6:35pm 3/22/14 6:35pm

A visitor at a museum in Milan, Italy broke the leg off of a statue while attempting to take a selfie. » 3/20/14 10:20am 3/20/14 10:20am

What happens after plastic surgery? How do people recover? What do they look like before they become the "after" photo that we often see? Artist Ji Yeo set out to document the recovery process for women who underwent surgical procedures to change their appearance. She collected the photos she took for an art project she… » 3/15/14 6:55pm 3/15/14 6:55pm

What a beautiful parrot, no? Look at all those colors, those beautiful feathers, that elegant tail (bear with me, I am no a parrot aficionado, I am just trying to get you into the mood. Here have some birdseed). And then, after you have admired it, look closer, closer (not that close!—Aladdin joke!), stare at the… » 3/15/14 6:15pm 3/15/14 6:15pm

Yes, this one's for all of you gathered around your TV sets, hushing everyone in the room and anxiously checking your DVR's record settings to make sure everything is a go for tonight's True Detective finale. » 3/09/14 9:30pm 3/09/14 9:30pm

Saint Hoax, an artist consumed by "Poplitical Infatuation" developed a series entitled War Drags You Out, study of sorts, mashing up political h and drag culture, two spheres that are far more similar than one would initially think. Saint Hoax explains: » 2/26/14 1:50pm 2/26/14 1:50pm

Artist flowercrownprincess envisions Wonder Woman as a hijab-wearing Muslim superhero, who is ready to battle evil in both armor and a headscarf. » 2/17/14 9:53pm 2/17/14 9:53pm

Author and New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly has been drawing delightful sketches of scenes from the Sochi Olympics and posting them on Twitter. At left, slopestyle skier and WuTang fan Henrik Harlaut; after the jump, a few more animated athletes. » 2/14/14 2:50pm 2/14/14 2:50pm

This image of actor/writer Stephen Fry may look like just another Instagram filter run amok, but it's actually the result of a pretty unique science-based art project. » 2/11/14 7:45pm 2/11/14 7:45pm

Carrie Mae Weems, the first African American woman to have a solo show at New York City's Guggenheim museum and winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, thinks art is really a shortcut to inner peace. » 2/07/14 1:40pm 2/07/14 1:40pm

The most talked about person on Wellesley College's all-female campus — distinguished alma mater of the likes of Madeleine Albright, Norah Ephron, and Hillary Clinton — isn't a woman at all. It's a man. A creepy, paunchy, bald sleepwalking man in his underwear, immortalized in sculpture form and parked on a quad, where … » 2/05/14 4:22pm 2/05/14 4:22pm