The feminist fireworks of Judy Chicago were loud, bright and very, very vaginal
Chicago’s 2012 fireworks demo, ‘A Butterfly for Pomona.’ Her latest, ‘A Butterfly for Brooklyn,’ was much larger. Judy Chicago is the original feminist artist–in fact…
Author: Amber Frost Archives: 04/2014
Why was transgender punk icon Jayne County banned from Facebook?
Punk pioneer, transexual trailblazer and Stonewall Riots veteran, Jayne County is a national treasure. However, the most recent coverage of County has not been on…
Berlin youth hostel decorated entirely with Communist stuff
Liking stuff is perilous and fraught with moral implications. For example, if one expresses a fondness for an artistic or design movement created under a…
Bruce Lee talks martial arts during his 1964 audition for ‘The Green Hornet’
In this 1964 tape, a confident Bruce Lee gives a kung fu primer while auditioning for the role of Kato in The Green Hornet. Lee,…
Rats with wings: Surveillance drones of the early 20th century?
Julius Gustav Neubronner with carrier pigeon and camera While the reality of drone surveillance (not to mention warfare) often feels like the very cutting edge…
Tokyo manhole covers remind us that US cities just do not give a damn, comparatively speaking
I love New York, but New York is truly disgusting, and a lot of it is unbelievably ugly. The infrastructure is crumbling (dear god, the…