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Artist tells Fox News, "I was gonna do a sign that said 'Fox News Lies'"
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Artist tells Fox News, "I was gonna do a sign that said 'Fox News Lies'"

Street artist, Jay Shells, creates the most polite artwork. And sometimes there's nothing more polite than telling the truth. Especially when it… Jessica Gentile   |   09.15.2011   |   Comments (91)
<em>The Big Lebowski</em> gets reimagined in the style of Caravaggio, Rubens, and Titian
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The Big Lebowski gets reimagined in the style of Caravaggio, Rubens, and Titian

Joe Forkan is a painter based in California. Since 2006, he's been working on paintings simultaneously inspired by The Big Lebowski and the… Peter Smith   |   09.14.2011   |   Comments (1)
Jon Huntsman dazzles would-be voters with his keyboard skills
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Jon Huntsman dazzles would-be voters with his keyboard skills

Jon Huntsman seems like kind of a weird Republican. We only know a few things about him: he worked for a Democratic president, he has more fans in… Ben Reininga   |   08.4.2011   |   Comments (3)
Naked people descend on Wall Street in performance art piece
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Naked people descend on Wall Street in performance art piece

This morning, fifty street performers descended on the Financial District in New York City. They positioned themselves along the entire length of… Kelly Bourdet   |   08.1.2011   |   Comments (5)
James Franco and Kalup Linzy's first music video is pretty much what you'd expect
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James Franco and Kalup Linzy's first music video is pretty much what you'd expect

The first single from James Franco and Kalup Linzy's imminent Turn It Up, the wig-loving musical duo's debut EP, has arrived in… Ray Rahman   |   06.29.2011   |   Comments (5)
James Franco now selling invisible art
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James Franco now selling invisible art

After his recent gig shooting British model Agyness Deyn for a fashion spread in Elle, James Franco, who I have no idea how to describe anymore… Jeff Mills   |   06.23.2011   |   Comments (17)
Science discovers that babies prefer Picasso to Monet
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Science discovers that babies prefer Picasso to Monet

If you've always preferred impressionism to cubism, maybe think twice before hiring a baby to decorate your home or manage your art… Virginia Smith   |   06.16.2011   |   Comments (2)
Links: Tips for powerful men on how not to end up like Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Links: Tips for powerful men on how not to end up like Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Obviously, keeping it in your pants is hard when you could pressure basically anyone who works for you into having sex with you. Just ask the… David Warner   |   05.23.2011   |   Comments (5)
Cindy Sherman photo is now the world's most expensive
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Cindy Sherman photo is now the world's most expensive

Collectors have become quite taken with photographer Cindy Sherman over the years, especially after her black & white Untitled Film Stills… Jeff Mills   |   05.13.2011   |   Comments (1)
Watch: Texas town angry over nude statue of David
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Watch: Texas town angry over nude statue of David

You know how some people decorate their lawns with adorable garden gnomes or tacky pink flamingos? Well, one Texan decided to take the classy… Jessica Gentile   |   05.13.2011   |   Comments (13)
Chinese artist gets a year in labor camp for "Art Whore" exhibition
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Chinese artist gets a year in labor camp for "Art Whore" exhibition

Cheng Li, a Chinese performance artist, has been sentenced to a year of "re-education" through labor, after engaging in unsimulated sex… Jeff Mills   |   05.10.2011   |   Comments (9)
Great art provokes the same brain response as being in love
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Great art provokes the same brain response as being in love

And yet my ex-boyfriend hated it when I used to call him "my little Piss Christ." I was just being romantic, as now confirmed by a new… James Brady Ryan   |   05.9.2011   |   Comments (2)
Police believe L.A. art show featuring Banksy is breeding criminals
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Police believe L.A. art show featuring Banksy is breeding criminals

L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is currently holding an exhibition (running through August 8) called Art in the Streets, which is… Jeff Mills   |   04.22.2011   |   Comments (14)
James Franco enrolled in yet another university
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James Franco enrolled in yet another university

Add a Ph.D. program to James Franco's never-ending pursuit of higher education: Franco has enrolled in University of Houston's Creative… Danielle Gibson   |   04.21.2011   |   Comments (10)
"Piss Christ" photo vandalized at French gallery
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"Piss Christ" photo vandalized at French gallery

Poor old Piss Christ. The 1987 photograph by Andres Serrano depicting a crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine was vandalized… Jeff Mills   |   04.18.2011   |   Comments (10)
Facebook doesn't want you to see the most famous painting of a vagina
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Facebook doesn't want you to see the most famous painting of a vagina

It's a famous work of art that can be seen in Paris' Musee d'Orsay, but dare to post it on Facebook and your whole account will be… Jessica Gentile   |   04.14.2011   |   Comments (13)
Woman attacks Gauguin painting of bare-breasted women at National Gallery
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Woman attacks Gauguin painting of bare-breasted women at National Gallery

Screaming "This is evil," a fifty-three-year-old Georgia woman attacked Paul Gauguin's "Two Tahitian Women" last week… Peter Smith   |   04.5.2011   |   Comments (5)
U.K. sculptor creates vagina-inspired art installation
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U.K. sculptor creates vagina-inspired art installation

Between pregnancy, pornography, labiaplasty, and the garden-variety insecurity that comes with the territory of being a woman in the Western… Libby Rumelt   |   03.15.2011   |   Comments (29)
Banksy (possibly) responds to Oscar loss with new artwork
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Banksy (possibly) responds to Oscar loss with new artwork

When Exit Through the Gift Shop lost best documentary to Inside Job at this year's Oscars, we were all pretty bummed, if for no better reason… Jessica Gentile   |   03.11.2011   |   Comments (1)
Banksy takes his Oscar campaign to the walls of L.A.
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Banksy takes his Oscar campaign to the walls of L.A.

New pieces of Banksy's street art have cropped up in Los Angeles, proving that even if he won't be onstage for the Oscars — the Academy… James Brady Ryan   |   02.16.2011   |   Comments (1)