Author: Amber Frost

Kevin Smith has caught a lot of hell for not “maturing” as an artist, but if you go back and watch Clerks, it’s pretty obvious…

“What’s wrong with being sexy?” In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger admitted that Their Satanic Majesties Request wasn’t a particularly good album.…

I’m calling you a cab!!! Driving under the influence of alcohol has not always been so frowned upon as it is today. In fact, there…

At the end of World War II, Italian artist Lorenzo Alessandri opened up his first studio, naming it “Attic Macabre,” a clear indication of his…

Last week, Google released its psychedelic DeepDream program to mass public fascination and acclaim. Using computer systems called “neural networks” that are modeled on the…

Devil’s Bed has got to be the most fascinating footnote in Yoko Ono’s career (or at least one of the most obscure). I’m not not…

La Savona, Indianapolis, Indiana (2012) Last week the death of burlesque legend Blaze Starr reminded us all of a far cheekier era of stripper–an anachronistic…

I am in love with this pagan portraiture series from photographer Henry Bourne–and frankly a little jealous! While we Americans are left with trace amounts…

“Untitled (Horse and Rider)” (c. 1950) Martín Ramírez is best known as the schizophrenic outsider artist who drew his masterpieces from a mental hospital. The…

This short interview from 1960 has some fascinating comments from Orson Welles on the uphill battle he faced getting Citizen Kane into theaters. It was…