Art and crime are often found together as expressing oneself often doesn’t align with the law, and sometimes defying the law furthers the meaning of the work, in this case it is a bit of both. In São Paulo (Brazil), you will find that entire sections of the city have

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The freedom to express oneself through speech, beliefs, and art is one of the cornerstones of the western world. Historically, censorship of expression has been practiced by corrupt or authoritarian governments to inhibit individual freedoms. Encouraging creativity is important for the beating heart of every society. While these ideas of

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Damien Herst forces us to look death in the eye with his art piece from 1991, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Simply put, the discomforting piece consists of a fourteen foot tiger shark stationed in a large tank of formaldehyde. To the eye, it

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We are all familiar with cover bands, and songs that sound a bit too similar, but there is one young artist who has been taking the heat for “copying” styles, lyricism, or the beat of popular songs by other artists. While there are only so many chords and chord progressions

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Charles Manson, Alfred Gaynor, and John Wayne Gacy are notorious figures, infamous not only for their heinous acts but also for the art that emerged from their dark legacies. In the 1970s, John Wayne Gacy was responsible for the brutal rapes, tortures, and murders of over 30 young men and

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