Finally, after centuries of unloading crap upon the unwashed masses, the art world is at long last about to unleash the visionary work of a true artist. George W. Bush, 43rd president of these United States and long-suffering art genius, is set to have his first gallery show.
Last December, Native American photographer Matika Wilbur embarked upon a journey with a staggeringly ambitious goal — over the next few years, she hopes to photograph members of every single Native American tribe. There were 562 recognized by the federal government when she started (and 566 now), hence the project's…
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:
Talk about a lousy day on the job. A cleaning woman in Italy accidentally threw away a valuable piece of art because she mistook it for trash.
Artist flowercrownprincess envisions Wonder Woman as a hijab-wearing Muslim superhero, who is ready to battle evil in both armor and a headscarf.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Animation student Miyuli decided to spend some time re-designing Disney princesses as their opposite gender. Now what needs to happen is a team up between these and the princesses in their princes' clothes
One Direction's new music video for "Midnight Memories" has just come out, and can you even believe how likable and real all four of my boyfriends and their weird friend Louis are?
It's 2014 and the Guggenheim is finally honoring an African American female artist with a retrospective. Photographer Carrie Mae Weems' three decades worth of emotional and provocative work will be on display at the museum from now until May 14.
Man, I really love nail art. You might not share the same kind of enthusiasm for crazy custom manicures, but we can all agree that the Laser Girls' 3D-printed nails are decidedly cooler than your average press-on acrylics.
I can't really have a better reaction to this flawless photograph of Lupita Nyong'o on the cover of Dazed and Confused magazine than this Twitter user who said it best:
Remember that lucky woman from Virginia who plucked a Renoir
Just when you think you've seen the last re-imagined Disney princess
Not gonna lie; these are pretty funny. Artist Annie Erskine takes a look at what some of your favorite Disney princes, villains and other men would like with or without their signature facial hair.
We use emoticons to punctuate tweets or text messages, but did you know that these icons can [maybe sorta] lend insight into where people fall along the autism spectrum? That's the premise of Genevieve Belleveau's Emoji Autism Facial Recognition Therapy, a performance art piece that showed at this year's Emoji Art Show …
Behold the latest, greatest art movement: Shelter cat abstract, painted via iPad.
If you love subversive, macabre art, then these Victorian Dolls are for you. Along with the self-disemboweling one, there's also a porcelain figurine with an open throat wound, one with half its skull exposed, and one that's decapitated. And looking so ladylike the whole time!
