If collaborating with Yoko Ono has been a dream of yours ever since you watched Cut Piece in college, then here’s your chance. Last week, Ono put out a call for “testaments of harm done to you for being a woman,” on Facebook.
Santigold and Kara Walker met at a Gucci show, the one where Santi White’s husband Trouble Andrew was enlisted by to splash his graffiti-style GucciGhost logo all over the official garments. Under the purview of creative director Alessandro Michele, it was as close to a DIY collaborative spirit that a major(ly funded)…
Are you a man who is constantly frustrated, but unsure where to channel that pent up energy? Do you feel like a force beyond your control is leading you astray, yet you refuse to ask for directions? Is your personal compass always pointing North, even when you’re facing South? If you answered yes to any of these…
Earlier this week, a section of ever-present performance artist Marina Abramović’s memoir, Walk Through Walls, in which she discusses indigenous Australians, began circulating on social media. In the uncorrected proof, Abramović describes “Aborigines” as “really strange and different,” while offering a handful of very…
“I’m never agreeing to do this again,” said Gawker Media Art Director Jim Cooke after spending a grueling half-hour painstakingly judging the most recent Olympic event.
A woman previously imprisoned at a correctional facility in Canada says she was placed in solitary confinement for refusing to wear a bra. Jeannette Tossounian, now 40, says that when she was incarcerated at the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton three years ago she was told that visible nipples could “arouse the male…
Lisa Yuskavage is known for paintings of women that evoke the “bombshell physicality [that] cloaks the tawdry thrill of finding an old Penthouse ... in the quasi-spiritual glow of a Renaissance fresco,” according to Vault magazine’s Neha Kale. She also shows the nips, and nips by women or on women are still frequently…
For New York’s Fall Fashion issue, the apparently very patient Amy Larocca has profiled Vanessa Beecroft, longtime performance artist and, more recently, frequent collaborator of Kanye West, who you may remember from the way she organized the fashion show for Yeezy Season 2 by models’ skin color, “like human Pantone…
If you ever need to quell the tornado of anxiety and emotion that regularly wreaks havoc on your brain and don’t want to use drugs to do it, look no further than the “inking” tag on Instagram. It’s Bob Ross for the digital media age.
Following Tuesday Bassen’s public announcement that Zara has been unapologetically stealing her trademarked designs, fellow artist Adam J. Kurtz, also a victim of Zara’s theft, has begun cataloguing the large number of illustrators and designers who are currently being knocked off by the Spanish fashion chain.
In May, artist Spencer Tunick announced an open call for naked ladies to participate in one of his famous large scale nude artworks. They all showed. (Scroll cautiously; NSFW pictures embedded below.)
At Jezebel, we’ve made it our mission to transform the brutalizing slog of election reporting into a creative exercise—namely, we’ve sought to find the words to describe Donald Trump’s utter terribleness. It’s a job we take seriously and one that will likely never be complete until we’re all dead under a pile of his…
In 2008, when the artist Vincent Desiderio finally put down the brushes on an 8' x 24' painting he’d been working on for five years, the stock markets were in decline but his cancer was in remission. He’d first shown “Sleep” four years earlier in a solo show at Marlborough, the New York gallery that represents him,…
What an odd life it must be to be married to a governor, especially when you have a such a healthy skepticism of politics and flair for the arts.
No, this story has nothing to do with Tilda Swinton taking a nap in a box at MoMA, but it’s almost just as good. A teenager visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art earlier this week decided to test out the difference between “real art” and “item that should be put in the lost and found” by placing a pair of…
An artist says she was locked out of her Facebook account for a day and got a warning that “people who repeatedly post things that aren’t allowed on Facebook may have their accounts permanently disabled,” after posting reviews of her latest show on her personal account.
A muralist with either ardently delightful and/or disturbing political fan fiction-related fantasies has created a mural of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin making out. How aroused are you on a scale of “I didn’t know kissing involved so much staring, also why am I having a panic attack” to “my sexy fun time organs…
Spencer Tunick, a New York-based artist, has plans to travel to Cleveland this July to make the Republican National Convention a whole lot tittier.
A man from Oregon who bought a $300 clay jug thingy at an estate sale was told during an episode of Antiques Roadshow that it was worth $50,000. Turns out, it’s not...
Jenna Bush Hager and her mother Laura Bush went on The Tonight Show to promote a children’s book they wrote about appreciating nature—an interesting sentiment, considering their family’s ties to the oil industry—and ended up chattin’ about another thing they appreciate: dad’s childlike, nightmarish paintings.
