Art Archives: 03/2017

After the Second World War, when everything was all kinda, um… shook-up and most people feared imminent nuclear annihilation, or World War Three with Russia,…

A vintage 80s ad for Italian fashion brand, Fiorucci featuring Divine. Art by Richard Bernstein “Went to Fiorucci and it’s so much fun there. It’s…

A portrait of David Bowie made out of junk by Bernard Pas. French painter, photographer, and sculptor Bernard Pras has been creating pictures out of…

Japanese nurse blowing through a conch shell There’s a website called Sukima Nurse that offers pictures of a Japanese nurse holding unusual objects in a…

These hand-painted working VCRs feature painstaking recreations of classic movie art. I first discovered the artist, who goes by the online noms-de-plume Sorce CodeVhs and…

It was fifty years ago this week that the future began with the Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, and his banana. The destruction and rebuilding of…

Around the time that he became an authentic jazz superstar in the mid-1960s, Charles Mingus became obsessed about avoiding exploitation at the hands of “distributors…

When illustrator James Eads saw the morphing gifs Chris McDaniel (aka TheGlitch.og) made from his work, he described the result as not “moving so as…

Unless you’re a fan of Barbra Streisand movies, then the name Billy Rose probably won’t mean much. Billy Rose was a legendary Broadway impresario and…

A clown named “Ron.” A realistic silicone mask by Igor Velgach. Based in Glenview, Illinois mask maker Igor Velgach is the artist behind the all-to-realistic…