Stunning Nude Photo Series Will Make You Think Twice About The 'Ideal Body'...
When you think about the cultural norm for the "ideal body," odds are the types of skeletal bodies blasted across magazine covers, billboard advertisements and mainstream entertainment come to mind....
View ArticleArtist Makes Papier Mache Versions Of Every Panda Alive... And It's A...
French sculptor Paulo Grangeon has made it elegantly -- and depressingly -- easy to see how endangered pandas really are. Grangeon's long-running traveling exhibit, Pandas on Tour, features 1600...
View ArticleThink You Know What Comic Book Fans Look Like? 'We Are Comics' Is Here To...
When you think of a comic book fan, do you picture someone... male? Middle-aged? White? The stereotype of the geeky comic book guy is still pervasive across popular culture (see: Comic Book Guy in "The...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Songs From 'Now That's What I Call Music!'
A whopping 992 songs have been deemed among pop music's greatest releases since the first "Now That's What I Call Music!" compilation arrived in the United States in October 1998, but it took only one...
View ArticleMemphis Church Throws A Prom For People With Disabilities, Brings Joy To...
For some, it was their very first prom. For others, it was an opportunity to be catered to and pampered. The idea for the Memphis Joy Prom came to Ashley Parks and Ginna Rauls a year ago in a Starbucks...
View ArticleLady Gaga's (And Her Fans') Most Ridiculous Outfits From Her New ArtRAVE Tour
Lady Gaga kicked off her ArtRAVE: The Artpop Ball tour on Sunday, and with it came the latest assortment of alien-like costumes that look like outfits Anna Wintour may have vetoed from the Met Ball....
View ArticlePS 22 Choir Turns St. Vincent's 'Digital Witness' Into The Kookiest Lullaby
St. Vincent's "Digital Witness" isn't really the uplifting, tender kind of song that Staten Island's famed PS 22 Choir often covers. As the second single from St. Vincent's self-titled album, "Digital...
View Article'Spring Breakers 2' Plans Prove Spring Break Truly Is Forever
Look at this ish: As first reported by Screen Daily, production company Wild Bunch is bringing a sequel to "Spring Breakers" to the Cannes Film Festival Film Market. The new film, titled "Spring...
View Article'Amazing Grace' Sounds Really Dark In A Minor Key (VIDEO)
Watch what happens when singer Chase Holfelder changes the classic "Amazing Grace" to a minor key. This version isn't meant to depress you (though it might), but rather to show that switching to a...
View ArticleThe New 'Tammy' Trailer Proves Melissa McCarthy Will Win Fourth Of July Weekend
We saw the first teaser for "Tammy" back in February, but the full trailer shows us so much more. Melissa McCarthy plays Tammy, who robs a fast-food chain while wearing a paper bag, and now we find out...
View ArticleSkateboarder Chris Martin Turned New York's Famous Auction House Into His...
Raise your hand if you've ever wanted to run wild in your favorite art haven, taking in masterpieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat or Christopher Wool like a free wheelin' kid let loose in an amusement park....
View ArticleMusician Makes 'Talk Dirty To Me' Sound Good While Impersonating 20 Different...
Anthony Vincent is versatile. That's the takeaway from his most recent "Ten Second Songs" video, in which he imitates different artists while singing a hit song. This week, Derulo dropped "Talk Dirty...
View ArticleArtist Paints Michael Vick Pit Bulls, Is 'Grateful To These Dogs For Changing...
Levity Tomkinson is a Kentucky artist and dog lover who's about a fifth of the way through painting every single one of the 51 dogs seized from Michael Vick's dog fighting operation in 2007. "One of my...
View ArticleBen Affleck's 'Live By Night' Bumped To 2016
Ben Affleck's "Live By Night" won't arrive in theaters for many more nights. As first reported by Deadline.com, Warner Bros. has shifted Affleck's next directing effort from a Christmas Day release in...
View ArticleHere's What Our Smartphone Obsession Looks Like ... In 26 Photos
One in every five people owns a smart phone. That's more than one billion people. Our devices have become an extension of ourselves; they are company in some of the most monumental, meaningful and...
View ArticleMeet The Man Who Wants To 'Grow' The Blackest Color In The World
Imagine the color black. Perhaps you envision a piece of coal, the ebony stripes of a zebra or the depths of outer space. Now imagine a color darker than black. Darker than that piece of coal, that...
View Article25 Street Artists From Around The World Who Are Shaking Up Public Art
Take a leisurely walk through your nearest metropolis, and you'll find skyscrapers reaching out to the heavens, innovative housing units sprawling from one space to another, oases of vintage...
View ArticleTravel Back In Time With An Art Exhibition Dedicated To Surreal 1970s Suburbia
It's no great surprise that the relationship between artists and the normalized, consumerist fantasy that is the suburbs is a fraught one. For as long as there have been suburbs -- planted, manicured...
View ArticleEye-Opening Photos Of Door-To-Door Salesmen In A Nairobi Slum
Mathare is a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, in which approximately 500,000 people live packed into a three-square-mile region. Many people dwelling in the poverty-stricken neighborhood turn to self-made...
View ArticlePick Flick: An Oral History Of 'Election,' 15 Years Later
In April 1999, when "Election" opened in limited release, moviegoers were only just getting to know Reese Witherspoon. "Man in the Moon," "Fear" and "Pleasantville" had provided glimpses of the...
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