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
Month: October 2024
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
Pornography was legalized in Denmark on July 1st, 1969. One of the first countries to allow the film genre to proliferate legally. A triumph in the world of nymphomaniacs and sexual deviants everywhere (well, at least in Denmark). It was time to celebrate this “sex”-cellent news. Jens Jørgen Thorsen had
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
Two films, both alike in dignity, one releasing exactly one week after the other, of the same length, down to the minute, each costing upwards of 100 million dollars to produce, failed to turn a profit after a flood of scathing reviews on their respective opening weekend. The consistency and
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
On April 19th, 1989, Trisha Meili was brutally raped and almost killed. Meili was going on a casual run late that evening around Central Park in New York City. This night would go down in history as one of the worst criminal cases of inequality in the legal system. That
Paparazzi have been around for several decades and have evolved with our technological advancement. The sole purpose of the job is for a person or group to capture unposed photos of celebrities, public figures, or any other famous individuals in their everyday lives. They then sell those photos to tabloids,
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
Deaths from opioid overdose have been on the rise every year since the beginning of the crisis in the 1990s. More than 130 people die every day from an opioid-related drug overdose. While the opioid crisis can’t be pinned on one person or company, Purdue Pharma, created by the Sackler