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Late Night Hosts Pay Tribute To Joan Rivers: She Had Guts, Never Stopped...

It was an emotional night for late night hosts, as they all took time on their shows to pay tribute to Joan Rivers, who died on Thursday at the age of 81. Jimmy Fallon's voice began to crack as he...

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Five Women Artists Are Setting The Stage For A Future Feminism

The future is female. These were the words that greeted those entering a demure communal art space in the West Village this week. They formed one of 13 tenets written on a chalkboard, scrawled in no...

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Scientists at Germany's Karl May Museum weigh returning Native American scalp

BERLIN (AFP).- A German museum said Thursday it is examining a request from a Native American tribe for the return of a scalp claimed as an ancestral artefact. Scientists from the Karl May Museum in...

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Landscape Photo Contest Winners Capture Earth's Varied Beauty

The International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition recently announced its winners, and they sure show what an incredible and diverse world we live in. This is the first year for the...

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Student Asks To Skip Class For Beyoncé's Birthday, Shows Flawless Reasoning...

When Beyoncé turned 33 Thursday, the Internet bowed down, to be sure. But Towson University student Ja-Niece Best took the Bey-reverence to another level: by sending an email to her professor, excusing...

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Bet You Never Knew Streetlights Could Be So Hypnotizing

Streetlights make one cool kaleidoscope in Hiroshi Kondo's "Eye Know." The short takes us on a mind-bending nighttime journey in which illumination morphs into hallucination. One viewer on Vimeo called...

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Early Color Photographs Give Glimpse Into The Russia Of Yesterday

Russia is a country that spans two continents and nine time zones, and serves as home to over 140 million inhabitants and over 190 different ethnic groups. Rich in land and people, the massive nation...

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The Happy Accident Of The 'I Love New York' Logo

It's not easy to capture the spirit of a city like New York. Yet, that is exactly what Milton Glaser did in 1977 when he was tasked with creating a logo to help promote tourism. It may have been a mere...

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Get Your Quick And Dirty Arts Education With Haiku Reviews

HuffPost Arts&Culture's Haiku Reviews is a monthly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables,...

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Finding Grace Where It's Not 'Supposed' to Be

This post originally appeared on Slate. By Aisha Harris When it comes to visual art, I’m far from a connoisseur. I’m much more of a dabbler who will occasionally dip her toes into the world if a...

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James Gandolfini's Final Movie Is A Disappointment

If "The Drop" didn't contain James Gandolfini's last screen performance, it might have gone directly to DVD. That's how old fashioned so much of this movie feels. Written by Dennis Lehane ("Mystic...

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How To Decorate A Room Without Putting Everything In Front Of The TV

We're creatures of habit, and there are few times this has proven truer than when trying to incorporate a TV into our decor. It almost always takes center stage. But just because the majority of people...

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Melissa McCarthy Basically Steals Bill Murray's New Movie

Director Ted Melfi expended loads of energy while trying to get Bill Murray to star in "St. Vincent." That part of the "St. Vincent" narrative will receive a lot of coverage in the next few months, and...

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'The Judge' Ends With A Willie Nelson Coldplay Cover

Audiences will get to see Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall in "The Judge" starting on Oct. 10, but the Warner Bros. release made its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film...

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Lava Eruption, Pakistan Protests And A Kite Surfing Record: Week In Photos,...

Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...

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This Woman Explains Why She Used To Draw Abstract Vaginas All Day

Having your opinion silenced in the world of art is, like everywhere else, very common. It's especially damaging if you're an artist who needs a voice (and a lot of us make art solely for that reason).

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The 6 Organizing Solutions You Didn't Know Your Home Needed

When it comes to home organization, you usually hear the same advice: Stock up on storage baskets, keep a label maker handy, and so on. But what if you're looking to take it one step further? Say,...

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Kumbh Mela, World's Largest Religious Festival, Comes Alive With Human...

The Hindu Kumbh Mela festival is the largest gathering of religious pilgrims in the world and takes place at the intersection of the Yamuna, Ganges and mythical Saraswati rivers. In 2013 the festival...

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After Dark: Meet Daughters Of Devotion, Artists And Nightlife Personalities

This is the seventeenth installment in HuffPost Gay Voices Associate Editor James Nichols' ongoing series "After Dark: NYC Nightlife Today And Days Past" that examines the state of New York nightlife...

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Youth Homelessness Is An Invisible Issue, But It Doesn't Have To Be

"Is this the life I'm going to live for the rest of my life?" Those are the words spoken by one of the three young people at the center of "The Homestretch," a documentary that offers an unprecedented...

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