I don’t know what it is, but I have a soft spot for toys and dolls doing very bad things. Very very bad things. Whether its Barbie committing bloody kitchen decapitations, action figures attacking naked girls and acting like stalking paparazzi, or just straight-up Barbie Porn, something always strikes a satiric chord when the innocent […]
14
Apr
Art, Art Will Save the World, Design, Features, Infinite Sadness, News, Odds / Ends, Questions / Answers, Style / Design, Toys, Weirdness
The hilariously stimulating art of Barnaby Barford
30
Sep
A civilized chat with post-punk artist Paul McCarthy
When it comes to art, I know a little bit about a few things. I know I love Vermeer, that Guernica is something special, and that Rothko paintings calm me. If you tried to talk to me about such-and-such movement or the difference between pre-Raphaelite blah blah and post-modern so-and-so you’d be met with a very […]
23
Sep
Start your Saturday night right with some deranged sculptures
So there’s this “art” event called GLOW happening on the beach in Santa Monica this Saturday, but I went to GLOW two years ago when it started and the art all looked pretty damn corporate to me. So corporate that we ended up on the SM Pier drinking tequila gimlets on the rickety roller coaster (that combo […]