Topic: art

Art Crush: The Monster Engine Gives Us Kids’ Drawings Rendered Realistically

The Monster Engine is a book created by illustrator Dave DeVries who wondered what it would look like if little kids’ drawings were rendered with sophisticated techniques, like coloring, shading and texturing. The conclusion: childrens’ minds are terrifying and this book is totally awesome. More »

The Daily WTF: SpongeBob SquarePants Murdered By Street Artist

It looks like SpongeBob needs a new theme song. More »

Tony Bennett’s Nude Sketch Of Lady Gaga Could Soon Be Yours!

Bid now for your chance to purchase evidence that Tony Bennett shouldn’t quit his day job. More »

Daily WTF: Meat Justin Bieber

Isn’t he just good enough to eat? More »

The Daily WTF: Roman Tyc Makes Art Out Of Cremated Remains

Ashes to ashes, dust to portraiture? The Czech artist Roman Tyc is making a real name for himself as a pioneer in the genre of cremated-ashes art. Roman uses the leftover bits of ash that would be normally be disposed of by the funeral home to create these huge and haunting portraits. More »

Why Lady Gaga’s Enormous Inky Mermaid Visionaire Cover Is Awesome

Lady Gaga covers the new issue of the fashion, art and culture magazine Visionaire, as a beautiful inky version of her mermaid alter-ego Yuyi. Shot by Dutch photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, issue comes in two sizes, and both of them are enormous. More »

Nicki Minaj’s W Magazine Shoot Sure Is Weird

Nicki Minaj covers November’s issue of W Magazine, which just so happens to be dedicated to art and fashion. An artist named Francesco Vezzoli decked the pop singer out to look like the women of Renaissance portraits — with a bit of a Minaj-branded twist, of course. More »

Street Artist Xvala Plasters The Scarlett Johansson Nudes Around Los Angeles

A Los Angeles-based street artist named Xvala has been making waves by plastering blow-ups of the leaked Scarlett Johnansson nudes around town. The images, which feature ScarJo along with Xvala’s logo and the words “Fear Google,” are popping up in super public places, and Xvala has been sent a cease and desist from Scarlett’s lawyers. The Huffington Post scored an interview with Xvala. Here’s some of what he had to say: More »

Intellectual Art That’s Also Funny: Craig Damrauer’s New Math Series

$Intellectual Art That's Also Funny: Craig Damrauer's New Math Series$

We’re kinda mesmerized by New Math, an art series that creator Craig Damrauer describes as “a quixotic attempt to quantify the world”: Quirky equations for life’s minutiae, ranging from stupid injuries to secrets to ponies. More »

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Coolest Pop Culture Art Project: Celebrity Photo Collages in Iconatomy

For his Fine Arts project, Swedish aspiring jeweler George Chamoun came up with a pretty great idea: Iconatomy, a collection of collages that match up old film icons like Elizabeth Taylor with current celebrities like Robert Pattinson. More »

Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t: ‘The Hands Resist Him’

Creepy Things That Seem Real But Aren’t is a series that explores modern urban legends, bringing you a new tale each week.

At 24” x 30”, it is a large painting, and a peculiar one. It depicts a boy. The boy stands in front of a window. He is clad in shorts and a blue t-shirt. Beside him is a girl—though she looks more like a doll than a human—who holds an angular object in her hands. The window behind them both reveals that it is nighttime: A crescent moon hangs in a black sky. But it is what is reaching out of the darkness that is truly unsettling. Outside the window, a number of disembodied hands reach towards the window, some rapping on it, some pressing themselves against it, and some merely held up as though seeking recognition. The boy, however, does not see the hands. He faces the viewer head-on.

The painting is called “THE HANDS RESIST HIM.” More »

The Daily WTF: Lana Sutra is Copulating Yarn Sculptures

Is there a name for the condition of being aroused by knitware? Purlophilia? Then the art project Lana Sutra appears to be catering to purlophiliacs. Curated by Cuban artist Erik Ravelo, the sensual sweater exhibition opened in three European Benneton stores earlier this week. More »

Art Crush: Autumn de Wilde, Miranda July and Rodarte Collaborate for Tar Magazine

As full time jobs go, I imagine nothing is harder than being interesting.

I hear that too! (I went to film school.)

Was there ice cream and sprinkles and fudge on it?

Photographer Autumn de Wilde dressed Miranda July all up in Rodarte and snapped some photos for Tar Magazine. The resulting images, which have been manipulated and written on, are clever, thoughtful and pretty all at once. Also: absurdly cool, but given the artists involved, that should go without saying. More »

The Daily WTF: Andrew Lancaster’s Got the Creepiest Taxidermy Around

Regular old taxidermy is unsettling enough. It’s taking a dead thing and stuffing it so it looks like an alive thing — and that’s weird to me. Which means that artist Andrew Lancaster‘s taxidermy hybrids — which mix and match pieces from different animals — are more than I can handle. More »

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