Salvador Dalí’s body to be exhumed to establish a psychic’s paternity
A Madrid judge has ordered the exhumation of the body of Salvador Dalí to adjudicate a paternity claim on behalf of Maria Pilar Abel Martínez,…
Art Archives: 06/2017
Painting with Light: Incredible portrait photographs of young outsiders
‘Iris’ (2011). At a cursory glance, I thought I was viewing some small figure detail from a Baroque painting or maybe a canvas by a…
Ralph Steadman’s grotesquely brilliant illustrations for Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’
George Orwell had difficulty in getting Animal Farm published in the 1940s. His satirical fable about a farm being taken over by a cowardly, power-mad…
Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Oingo Boingo, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage & others usher in 1984
John Cage performs with a feather while George Plimpton narrativizes (inset) George Orwell’s sinister novel Nineteen Eighty-Four made it inevitable that the arrival of his…
Average Joes, not Fabios: Regular people recreate cheesy romance novel covers (and it’s perfect!)
The longing gazes and lusty embraces. The bodices bursting with boobies. And Fabio. Lots and lots of Fabio. Such are the elements of your standard…
Almost Grown: Sublime photographs of American teenagers 1969-1984
Charlie, Jones Beach, 1976. Teenager: that tricksy time when you’re no longer a child but not quite yet the adult. When hormones light fires and…
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club parodies from the Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd & many more
In case you haven’t heard, this summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Oh yeah, that’s right–you probably…