The lines blur where an eccentric hobby and defacement of federal property overlap. I’m sure at some time or another during the past decade you’ve come across a dollar bill with a colorful “Where’s George?” stamped across it. You are then instructed to visit wheresgeorge.com so you can update that
Have you ever been out driving and seen a crocheted stop sign and wondered to yourself what the purpose was for that? Well apparently so have politicians around San Diego County. This public art display has (controversially) turned over 100 stop signs into brightly blooming flowers using yarn and wire
The Musée d’Orsay in France has an exhibition called Crime and Punishment. It focuses on art from 1791 to 1981, which is the year that capital punishment was outlawed in France. Throughout these years, violent crime was being fantasized in novels as well as becoming a theme in the visual
I recently read an article written by Elizabeth Fortescue for The Art Newspaper on something that happened in New South Wales and, although it is news from 2010, I think it is relevant to the topic of art and crime. Most people believe that child pornography is a crime but
Russia is home to a lot of controversial artists, one of which being an art group called “Voina”. This article is about the art group Voina planting a member in a grocery store that stole a raw chicken by sticking it up her vagina and walking out of the store.
Fan Fiction is a lot like the Japanese art form of Doujinshi, in which people are influenced by, or use characters from, book and movies (or manga) to create their own story lines in that world. In America, there are plenty of authors that are okay with the idea of
This is a question that has really made me think a lot in regards to many pieces of what we call “abstract” art. For instance, I’ve thought “If I poke a hole in a cup and fill is with red fluid, and let it run, can I can I call
This article focuses on how culture is created as a mélange of other cultural artifacts. Of particular interest is the way this happens in relationship to the recording industry. One example given is the Harlem Shake, a 30-second clip of sound taken from a mix of other stolen sounds and
The video above comes from Belgian artist Jan Fabre. This cat tossing performance in Antwerp was posted online, and received a lot of outrage. What I don’t understand is why this is considered art. I don’t see any real message behind the performance, and the whole thing seems like something
In a complicated twist of mild voyeurism and exhibitionism, this woman makes what I consider art, in the form of capturing others responses to her presence in front of a tripod and camera. Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero explains, “I now reverse the gaze and record their reactions to me while I