Dove used a FBI-trained forensics artist, Gil Zamora, to sketch women volunteers. There were two sketches of each woman, one from her describing herself and the other from a stranger describing her. The differences between the two sketches were extreme. Dove was promoting their Campaign for Real Beauty by showing
Month: November 2014
The recently opened museum, The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, features a collection of unique items. They have your regularly unregular Picasso prints, but they also display ancient Chinese sex toys, and even excretions from celebrities, one of whom is Amy Winehouse. As an additional
Artworks that are created by gangster, killers, or shooters have been auctioned off for thousands. If not for these infamous criminal artist would these artworks be worth so much money? Many of these artists lack technical abilities therefore implying that the arts value stems from the heinous crimes committed. These
The Cardiff Kook, originally named the “Magic Carpet Ride” by artist Matthew Antichevich, is a statue created to honor the surfers of San Diego County. These local surfers, however, dubbed the Cardiff Kook, due to its awkward stance. In surfer terms a kook is person who cannot surf well and/or
A statue in Sydney, Australia was covered with a huge pink condom in order to raise awareness for HIV prevention. The group ACON, the AIDS Council of New South Wales, is promoting the use of condoms particularly for gay men who rarely use condoms during casual sex (according to a
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/castro-san-franciscos-public-nudity-ban.html Self expression comes in many different forms. Our laws protect self expression by giving us freedom of speech and freedom of religion. However, there are many instances where we aren’t quite sure how we feel about how people choose to express themselves. In San Francisco, the “body freedom” movement
The artist IEPE organizes actions s in public spaces address specific aspects of the urban condition, such as traffic. In this project bicyclists spill 500 liters of eco-friendly paint which is spread throughout a Berlin intersection by 2,000 unknowing participants driving cars. This performance piece draws attention to the daunting
Earlier this year, angry union protestors engaged in a rather peaceful form of protest that simultaneously walked the fine line between legal and illegal. “Union’s Giant Video Near White House Urges Halt to Deportations,” an article by Michael D. Shear that was published in the New York Times, describes labor
An article in Huffington Post UK, “Criminal Art: Paintings by Famous Killers and Criminals,” discusses the idea of pieces of artwork created by those who have committed terrible crimes being sold for profit. The piece above, which depicts some sort of demonic creature, was created by Henry Lee Lucas, a
New York has always had a large artist community and a big part of this are the youths making extra money by performing in the Subway. Mayor Bill de Blasio recently decided that he wants the New York Police Commissioner William Bratton to make his next project to get rid