What does it take to identify a sculpture by Michelangelo? Pubes, distinctive toes, and eight-packs, apparently.

It’s hard out here for a man. At least it seems that way, based on the societal tendency to celebrate them for doing minimally heroic acts like actually texting you back, not body-shaming, and not sexually harassing anyone.

Welcome to Styling, Jezebel’s video series in which we show how creative people communicate who they are through the clothes they wear.

It is my belief that “the cat” is one of the great artistic subjects (for instance, name a novel in which a cat does not appear, I’ll wait), another is grief, but the two are not often analyzed together and at once.

This is why the ruling class can’t have nice things.

In 1866, the French painter Gustave Courbet painted The Origin of the World, a painting that depicts a nude, her face cropped out of the frame with vagina,
torso, and breast in the foreground. Now, French historian Claude Schopp has identified the woman depicted in the infamous painting as Constance Quéniaux, “dancer…

Marina Abramovic was in Florence, Italy on Sunday for a book signing when a man thwacked her over the head with a portrait he, uh, made of her. Why? “I had to do it for my art,” he said, allegedly. Ah.

Tramps, the art gallery where Lizzi Bougatsos has until recently kept a day job as a gallerist, is of a downtown vintage that seems to be rapidly disappearing in New York under a carpet of money and shitty condos. It’s nearly impossible to find, for one, unless you’re aware that indoor shopping malls in Chinatown…

Josephine Decker’s third feature film, Madeline’s Madeline, is an exquisite collision of content and medium, a story that could only be told in cinema. A fractured exploration of mental illness and the art-making process, the film is shot tightly, scored with thick and experimental acapellas and occasional out-of-sync…

Anonymous was a woman, and she is also a saint named Susan Unterberg, an anonymous philanthropist and artist who has revealed her identity to the New York Times after secretly donating $5.5 million to woman artists over the span of 22 years. Her grant program, Anonymous Was a Woman (named for a line from A Room of…

When I think of IKEA, I feel nothing. Yet the Swedish-founded, DIY-assembly furniture conglomerate is known for inspiring bad associations. It’s where couples break up. Where dreams go to die. Where they somehow screwed up meatballs. Where it suddenly dawns on you that minimalism is bullshit and you want to live, but…

While I am frustrated by the divisions in present-day American society, and the terrible erosion of democratic norms in Washington, I can’t let that affect my progress in my level 3 improv class. I believe that comedy transcends politics—especially my comedy, which is really improving, my teacher says.

Artist Emma Rose Laughlin is a lover of the traditionally feminine craft of embroidery. Ever since she discovered a box of discarded needlework in her grandma’s basement a few years ago, she has taken to stitching vintage doilies and handkerchiefs with painstaking designs—but she isn’t interested in the typical dainty…

Before joining Beyoncé on stage for a history-making Coachella set on Saturday, our hero Solange debuted a performance art piece at UCLA’s Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on Friday.

For most people in the rest of the United States, New Mexico is a sort of blank spot—an overlooked, ragged square wedged next to Texas, its loud, swaggering cousin. It’s the fifth biggest state land-mass-wise, at a little under 122,000 square miles, and one of the emptiest, with 2 million people spread out over the…

“An asterisk is such a small punctuation mark but it represents a huge terrible thing,” Emma Sulkowicz recently told Jezebel. Sulkowicz was referring to a February performance during which Sulkowicz stood in front of works by Chuck Close, recently accused of sexual harassment, their body covered with asterisks.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed the very necessary Eliminating Government-Funded Oil-Painting Bill, which will trim the nation’s debt by a fraction of a fraction of a percentage point. Thank god. Trump administration officials, who like to drop thousands of dollars of public money to ride private planes and purchase…

Photographer Nan Goldin, who captured downtown New York City in all its gritty, pre-gentrified glory during the late 1970s and ’80s, will have her iconic images of LGBTQ nightlife turned into streetwear for Supreme’s latest collection.

In reviews of its second season, Jessica Jones was declared the “superhero TV show” for the #MeToo movement. Blockers, a raunchy sex comedy about teenage girls losing their virginities on prom night, was christened the perfect comedy for the #MeToo era. Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, despite being…