Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art
Recently, while trying to wrap my head around the pop-surrealist art movement, I stumbled across a video showing a painting of a creepy, big-eyed Katy Perry likeness reclined amongst flowers …
Stars Like Katy Perry and Weird Al Collaborate with Pop-Surrealist Mark Ryden Read More
The retrospective exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s artwork currently on display at Washington, D.C.’s Hirshhorn Museum showcases a 6-decade career hallmarked by obsessive, mind-bending repetitions of patterns and immersive viewer experiences. …
The Polka Dot Princess’s Fear of the Phallus Read More
Barbie body harvesters are turning your favorite childhood toys into unnerving and unforgettable works of art. Dolls placed into scenes of sin and sexuality create disarming juxtapositions. Detached, neatly contoured …
Doll Part Art: Visual Feasts Made of Plastic Bodies Read More
In this season of music sweet enough to rot your teeth, here’s a medley of truly bizarre holiday songs wholly inappropriate for your family gatherings and office parties. Ramones – “Merry …
10 Holiday Songs You’ll Never Hear at the Mall Read More
I’m going to put one hundred luminescent duck sculptures in a visible location somewhere in Washington, D.C. While working on this street art project, I’ll document my progress online. You …
#100DucksDC Featuring Robots, a Princess, and Hypnotism (#66-70) Read More
This article originally appeared in . As English artist Louis Wain’s schizophrenia worsened, his adorable anthropomorphic cat drawings turned into psychedelic pet portraits full of bright colors and repeating patterns. …
Constructing New Realities: The Unique Vision of Artists with Schizophrenia Read More
Van Gogh painted vibrant sunflowers, MC Escher produced mind-bending visual puzzles, and Andy Warhol is best known for his soup cans. Each artist also produced bleak cranial creations to remind …
Art Inside Us: The Human Skull as Depicted by 13 Masters Read More
This Halloween, magicians, spiritualists, and fans will attempt to contact Harry Houdini from beyond the grave, a ninety-year-old tradition born out of a widow’s promise to her dead husband at …
Escape from Afterlife: A History of the Harry Houdini Halloween Séance Read More
When laws and culture exist to proliferate power for men, inhabiting a female body is a radical threat to the patriarchy. Several recent protest movements have made use of male …
Biological Sex as a Weapon: Using Female Bodies and Sexuality to Fight for Reform Read More
This story originally on September 4, 2016. Though it may not be polite to talk about in history class, erotica appears in most great civilizations in human history. From hieroglyphs of …
Sexual History: The Ancient Erotica of Great Civilizations Read More