Seattle resident Alex Wong wants your money. Specifically, he wants your money to create the biggest dick drawing ever created. Why, though, should he get cash to make the artwork that middle schoolers create daily, not for financial gain, but for the ACTUAL LOVE OF DICKS? » 7/23/14 5:30pm Wednesday 5:30pm

To protest against economic inequality, actor Adrian Grenier posted a picture of Kim Kardashian posed in a similar manner as the subject of a 19th century painting. » 7/18/14 3:45pm 7/18/14 3:45pm

A Japanese artist who was recently arrested after crowd-funding a kayak shaped like her vagina — you know, just casual summer fun — says that she will fight the obscenity charges in court. And then, hopefully, she will continue to dismantle vulvaphobia one vagina-craft at a time. » 7/16/14 5:45pm 7/16/14 5:45pm

Move over guns. Add 3D-printed vaginas to the things that will get you arrested in Japan. » 7/14/14 10:41am 7/14/14 10:41am

What you're looking at is not a tarantula. I know that might be hard to believe as you hyperventilate in your computer seat or while checking your phoneon the train (I don't know your life), but what's actually happening is much much cooler. And much less scary. » 7/10/14 6:15pm 7/10/14 6:15pm

Nour Saleh wears a hijab, so when she recently took up a Tumblr challenge to draw herself as different fictional characters, she incorporated a headscarf into various superhero designs—often with very clever results. » 7/03/14 3:54pm 7/03/14 3:54pm

Is this somehow a terrible omen for Thursday's World Cup match between the US and Germany? » 6/23/14 10:00am 6/23/14 10:00am

We all know that Disney tends to soften those folk tales that they turn into movies, giving them happy endings, removing the less PG elements. However, there are some stories out there that are just a little too outrageous for even the House of Mouse, and there are quite of few of them that involve maidens. » 6/19/14 1:59pm 6/19/14 1:59pm

What better time than a sunday evening for an awesome piece of art? And what better time than now to look closer at this image and try to figure out how it was made? Give up yet? Look again! (No, really. I will wait here.) » 6/01/14 6:24pm 6/01/14 6:24pm

The opera community is in what I assume is a very in-tune uproar after critics responded to one mezzo-soprano's performance with tacky, tacky cracks about her weight. » 5/20/14 6:25pm 5/20/14 6:25pm

Sculpture artist/boundary-pusher, Kara Walker, uses art as a medium to expose the atrocities committed in the antebellum American South against African Americans. Her latest work is on display at the abandoned Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn. The piece is called A Subtletly, however it's anything but. At 75ft long… » 5/11/14 6:10pm 5/11/14 6:10pm

Another day, another high school snuffing out the voice of America's youth. Gracie Holtzclaw, a high school senior from South Carolina was given a spot at a county-wide school arts exhibition, but two days before the event, she was informed that the piece she submitted was deemed unsuitable. » 5/11/14 3:30pm 5/11/14 3:30pm

For those of us who couldn't get enough of Gotye's "Somebody I used to Know" video but wished there were more cool painting effects and less singing about breakups (god, did that song hit hard. Anyone else cry to it while sitting in a friend's minivan?), our prayers have been answered. » 4/26/14 6:50pm 4/26/14 6:50pm

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 4/23/14 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 4/21/14 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 4/18/14 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… » 3/29/14 12:49pm 3/29/14 12:49pm