Yes, every year, for the past 37, around the first day of summer, mermaids, mermen, mer-nonbinary participants descend upon Coney Island, New York. The Coney Island Mermaid Parade is a spectacle all its own. Here's some Mermaid Parade history... Coney Island resident and … [Read more...]
Why Is Liza Minelli Selling All Her Warhols’? ($40 Million Might Be a Good Reason…)
According to Page 6 of the New York Post, Liza Minnelli is quietly trying to sell her collection of Andy Warhol paintings. Minelli owns 22 works including four portraits of herself, three of her mother, Judy Garland, and three of her father, Vincente Minnelli. Many of the … [Read more...]
Nightmare Fuel: Bizarre Play-Dough Portraits by Tomba Lobos
Using skin-colored Play-Dough and Photoshop, artist Tomba Lobos has created this fabulously creepy series of portraits as a tribute to "the kind of old school … [Read more...]
Albert Sanchez and Pedro Zalba – Photos from Sundance
Check out the Instagram of photographers Albert Sanchez and Pedro Zalba, capturing beautiful portraits from Sundance 2016! [Read more...]
Sell-Out?: Jerry Saltz On Richard Prince’s Instagram Swipes
I wrote about artist Richard Prince's latest Instagram portraits [Read more...]
Art Break: Soldiers Photographed Before, During, and After Deployment in Afghanistan
Hey, Are You Robert Russell?
Well, they say be consistent, so artist Robert Russell has got that going on. He wants to "own" the name Robert Russell, so he's decided to paint them ALL. His current show, at LA's François Ghebaly … [Read more...]
Drag, You?
Photographer Jon Uriarte dressed these men, and others, in the clothes … [Read more...]
Flashback 1981: Andy Warhol with Sunflower
Over 30 years ago, British newspaper photographer Steve Wood took this portrait of Pop artist Andy Warhol holding a sunflower in the seaside resort of Deauville, France. "The shoot was easy, it was very instinctive," Wood told the BBC. "Andy was very straightforward to work with. … [Read more...]
The Reverend Al Sharpton Photographed by Richard Avedon
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