“I like to watch them struggle. To see them use their dead legs and floppy feet to even just climb into bed. It turns me on like nothing else can.” This is a look inside the mind of someone with acrotomophilia–the concept of being sexually attracted to amputees–that is more

The art community is generally an open and collaborative space in which artists borrow from each other’s ideas to push boundaries and innovate. Because of this, it might come as a surprise to hear that Anish Kapoor has exclusive license to use the substance Vantablack. This material, developed by Surrey

YG is still brazy. YG’s 2016 album entitled “Still Brazy” was released following several controversial police killings and a murder attempt on his own life. YG’s goal in this album is to educate his audience on politics through his raps, he is trying to express to his audience that violence

In a lot of ways, art is meant to provoke the audience, to call attention to underlying issues, and to blur the line between the socially acceptable and the socially condemnable. However, there are many instances in which the artist takes extremist measures in the development of their art, leading

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s video, “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other,” was scheduled to be displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in October 2017. The seven minute video depicts eight American pit bulls harnessed to eight treadmills. The treadmills are operating at a fast speed and people

The United States denounces graffiti as a criminal act and prosecutes graffiti artists as such. The law marks graffiti as a display of defacement or vandalism of an owner’s property. Regardless of the creativity behind graffiti, in the eyes of the law, there is never a circumstance where graffiti becomes

Joan Cornella’s cartoons are not afraid to offend. Joan Cornella is a massively popular Spanish cartoonist infamous for themes of political and social criticism in his simplistic cartoon drawings. To a new viewer, his artworks seem jovial and harmless at first. However, as you begin to look closely into the

With all the stress of solidifying the Third Reich’s domination in Europe, the German Nazi soldiers had to unwind somehow – but who would have thought their version of fun would include dressing up in women’s clothing? This paradoxical phenomenon was discovered by artist Martin Dammann who was researching the

I don’t know about you, but I love to dress up in costumes. Themed parties and Halloween is what I live for. For Halloween this year, I was a lifeguard and a cheetah; these costumes seem fine, right? Well, as I looked around I saw a girl dressed as Pocahontas

In 1911, Thomas Edison held a practical monopoly on the technology needed to make movies. He was rampant about keeping the patents to himself and exploiting them to the best of his ability. So filmmakers said “Screw that noise” and headed to California, founding Hollywood and creating their own world.