An Abridged History Of Times New Roman, The Most Famous Font In The World
Times New Roman was first printed on October 2, 1932 in the British newspaper The Times. In the years since, the serif typeface has become something of a classic, its legible style and ineffable sense...
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Artist Transforms Everyday Materials Into Gorgeous, Towering Alien Landscapes
Roaming a Tara Donovan installation feels like navigating an alien landscape, one where massive dandelions sprout amongst textured cubes and glittering, gloopy stalagmites. Yet look a little closer and...
View ArticleTaye Diggs Talks Idina Menzel Split: 'It Was Easy For People To Root For Us'
When Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel announced their split last December, fans of the Broadway couple had a hard time keeping it together. In an interview with Redbook this month, Diggs said the public's...
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Five Chinese Dissident Artists Who Aren't Ai Weiwei
It's easy to think Chinese political art stops at Ai Weiwei, the embattled provocateur who is arguably the art world's most famous living figure. In fact, a small circle of Chinese artists routinely...
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Mugshots Of Fairytale Heroines Tell A Different Story
Show us one person who can't recite the story of Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White or Goldilocks by heart, and we'll show you a baby just born into this world. Because we all grew...
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Striking Photos Show What It's Like To Actually Live On $1 A Day Around The...
More than 1 billion people around the globe -- roughly one in six -- earn just $1 a day. That astonishing statistic is the motivator for the Forgotten International's campaign to shed light on the...
View ArticleCara Delevingne And Jourdan Dunn Get Matching Tattoos, Are Best Friends Forever
Some best friends wear matching bracelets to show their devotion to one another. But when you're Cara Delevingne and Jourdan Dunn, two of the world's most famous supermodels, jewelry doesn't quite cut...
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How Phil Lord & Chris Miller Turned '22 Jump Street' Into The Year's Best...
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are on the kind of hot streak that would make any filmmaker envious. Their first three films -- "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," "21 Jump Street" and "The LEGO...
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Scientist Says Relationship With Dolphin Was 'Sensuous'
It was just for scientific porpoises!* A scientist who had a "sensuous" relationship with a dolphin in the 1960s has come forward to talk about the wet and wild experience in the new documentary, "The...
View ArticleJames Franco Writes Fictional Story About Lindsay Lohan For Vice
James Franco has already tried once to clear his name from Lindsay Lohan's sex list of alleged lovers, claiming the two never slept together. Now he's hoping to hammer home that message once again. In...
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Hamptons Residents Hate 30-foot-tall Walking Statue
If art is supposed to inspire an emotional reaction, then a 30-foot-tall aluminum statue installed in the Hamptons has succeeded in its goal. It's definitely making residents emotional, but not in the...
View ArticlePaul McCartney Postpones June U.S. Dates Due To Illness
The following article is provided by Rolling Stone. By KORY GROW Paul McCartney has rescheduled the U.S. tour dates he had originally scheduled to begin in mid-June for October. His Out There tour will...
View ArticleWhy Andy Garcia Refused To Change His Last Name
Andy Garcia knows Hollywood isn't the same place it was 30 years ago. Garcia, 58, was honored with the National Association of Latino Independent Producers' Lifetime Achievement Award this past...
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This Is The Fastest Way To Cut A Cake (VIDEO)
Happy birthday, somebody! You've opened your presents, blown out your candles and made a wish. All that's left is the cutting of the cake. Now that you're one year older, you should be able to master...
View ArticleHow Are They Keeping Rats Off Kara Walker’s Sugar Sculptures?
Kara Walker’s 75-foot-long, 35-foot-tall sculpture made of 160,000 pounds of sugar rests in the expansive, soon-to-be-razed Domino Sugar Refinery, surrounded by 15 five-foot-tall statues of boys coated...
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Google Helps Immortalize The Vanishing World Of Street Art
Street art is far from static in the ever-changing urban jungle. Building walls get ripped down, taking with them painstakingly detailed murals; frustrated landlords whitewash over laborious graffiti,...
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The Striking Men Of Sikhism Get Their Due
The surname Singh is so prevalent around the world that Canada used to ban immigrants from keeping it, claiming the name was too common to process quickly. Today, it’s a loaded identifier: violence...
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Floating Charcoal Sculptures Explore The Complex Relationship Between Man And...
Charcoal is a natural substance derived from the geological process of burning trees. The light black residue that remains, though created by nature, has a distinct architecture to its rough sides and...
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This Is The Claymation Rap Video You Never Knew You Needed
We never thought we'd find ourselves obsessively hitting replay while a blinged out banana raps about the good life. But here we are, eyes glued to a little gem called "Butter Ya'Self." The epic...
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One Daughter's Response To Her Mother's Death, Captured In Stunning Keepsake...
"I found myself deeply overwhelmed by the need to keep even the most mundane of my mom's belongings when she died suddenly this past February," photographer Jennifer Loeber explains in her artist...
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