Dead media: Skeleton sculptures made from cassette tapes
Artist Brian Dettmer‘s sculptures are made from what he calls “antiquated media.” He’s most famous for his pieces constructed from meticulously sliced up books. The…
Artist Brian Dettmer‘s sculptures are made from what he calls “antiquated media.” He’s most famous for his pieces constructed from meticulously sliced up books. The…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
You might remember my post from a while back on Hunter S. Thompson’s truly weird Apple computer commercial, but I think I’ve found something to…
Hulk Hogan Velvet paintings and professional wrestling–a veritable chocolate and peanut butter of low culture combos! Artist Bruce White “believes that Elvis and Jesus are…
Iva Toguri D’Aquino The Tokyo Rose is one of the more ingenious and chilling bits of psychological warfare in human history. During World War Two,…