controversy Archive
Art
Last year, I wrote a story on this portrait of George Zimmerman made out of Skittles by artist Andy Bell. At the time, I questioned whether the medium
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action figures
I love it when classy news sites weigh in on collectible controversies! Recently, there was an uproar over Mattel’s Barbie Dolls of the World collection, specifically Mexico Barbie. Despite being
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paintings
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations about original art vs. derivative art and if/whether these qualities are mutually exclusive. (Over the last week, we had this
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graphic
Well this is just wrong. It seems that fashion designer Jeremy Scott has created a collection of clothing using well-known skate graphics designed by Jim and Jimbo Phillips.
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action figures
It’s been almost a year since Troy Gua’s Le Petit Prince appeared on this site. But unfortunately Gua’s meticulous miniature version of Prince the musician won’t make it through
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sculpture
As New York readies itself for KAWS overexposure, here’s an interesting afterthought on something Mr. Brian Donnelly didn’t want us to see–across the Atlantic Ocean in Berlin. Back
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paintings
Earlier this month, New York’s Mulherin + Pollard Gallery held an exhibition of recent drawings by Danish-Icelandic artist Jakob Boeskov. Weekend Futurology revealed “a futuristic, playfully paranoid world drawn from
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sculpture
Hugo Orlandini is a Cuban-born, Barcelona-based, contemporary artist whose work often plays with politics. Like me, and probably some of you reading this, Orlandi thinks of art as having
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sculpture
Here’s a great followup to the last post about drinking Vodka out of a fire extinguisher. You are looking at Le Pyromane (The Arsonist), an art installation by
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Cats
This is one of those polarizing PETA ad campaigns that’s either win-win-win or lose-lose-lose. Chances are, if you like Morrissey, you also like cats, and you may even
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