The art form hails from the chilly shores of the once United Provinces of the Netherlands, which was a world-famous Calvinsm hotspot during

Presented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery and opening on October 1st, If These Walls Could Talk: Women of the Chelsea, by Tiffany Shlain is a new artwork and installation at the Hotel Chelsea that pays t...

The real issue has to do with transparency. Artists who negotiate coverage behind closed doors, through strategic relationships or undisclosed payments, get the appearance of organic recognition, whil...

Intentionally or not, there is a good chance you’ve seen the work of Cuban-American artist, painter, and graphic designer, Edel Rodriguez.

Over the years, Moriarty has undergone some of the most drastic reinventions of any literary villain, transforming from a briefly mentioned plot device into a pop-culture archetype of the criminal mas...

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Founded in 1930, guided by Howard Hughes (1905 — 1976) between 1939 and 1960, and plagued by serious financial issues throughout the 1980s a

The break came when Duncan was able to secure a small part for Rin Tin Tin in a Warner Bros. melodrama called The Man from Hell’s River (1922). A wolf who was first cast for the part did not perform ...

Thomas Edison's Phonograph: The dawn of communications or how the world got its very first recording

ARTpublika Mag had a chance to catch up with Jeff Chang, and ask him about his love of hip hop, academia surrounding hip hop and the culture

This lineage from engineering study to technical illustration eventually reached Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. In the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Space Station V serves as the cinematic s...

Though it might be surprising to learn, history abounds with examples of music and medicine overlapping and forming a harmonious union.

From “Time” by Pink Floyd to “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper to “Sign of the Times” by Harry Styles. It seems like the theme has been covered by almost every genre across almost every decade in one ...

Like the Ark, an arcology is a structure—often a megastructure—meant to be self-contained and self-sustaining, housing and nurturing all tho

When watching the film Carol (2015), directed by Todd Haynes, it would not be uncommon to experience sensations akin to deja vu.

"Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has a rather storied history. First, Benjamin Franklin was appointed the original Postmaster General in 1775, which was a pretty solid debut. This was followed ...

The story of a beautiful young woman who was offered a coveted behind-the-scenes view of the heavy metal music scene at its early-90s zenith

Of Love: Oscar Wilde, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Frida Kahlo write to the loves of their lives

And yet, over the course of history, there hasn’t been as much diversity in swimwear as one might assume. Pamela Anderson’s red one-piece wa

The Duchess hands the baby over to Alice that somehow turns into a pig. Baylor explains that the scene satirizes the principle of continuity

“I don’t think about death,” calmly states Bruce Campbell. That’s ironic, coming from him. Over the last 40 years Campbell’s become a legend

Wonder Woman was conceived by American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston and illustrated by cartoonist Harry George Peter, debuting in December 1941.

Some of the oldest forts were built while NYC was still known as New Amsterdam and was, at various points, under Dutch and British control.

Although the Dogs Playing Poker series proved to be his most enduring, Coolidge also painted dogs ballroom dancing and playing football and baseball, which somehow never made the same splash or helped...

Back in the ‘90s, almost every kid on the playground had a Super Soaker. Teams were assembled, rules were laid down and strategies were made

Of Love: Oscar Wilde, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Frida Kahlo write to the loves of their lives

If ever there ever was a poster child for 19th century decadence, dandyism, and degeneracy – it was Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898).

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Don’t Be a Menace features cameos by actors from the hood films it parodies. This can mean that the comedic angle was taken with permission.

The most impressive of these is “Geese in Flight,” which was completed in August of 2001 and holds the Guinness World Record for being the “largest scrap-metal sculpture” of its kind. Resembling Canad...

A Few Words About Man's Best Friend: Dorothy Parker, Emily Pauline Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling on dogs

The author of the article suggests that in 1889, Morning in a Pine Forest was exhibited at the Seventeenth Traveling Exhibition and bore both artists’ signatures. It also argues that it was Savitsky w...

From New Orleans to New York, discover how jazz evolved from African American musical roots into one of America's most diverse and enduring musical traditions.

Realizing the dormant potential in the strong and intelligent Etzel, he persuaded screenwriter Jane Murfin to purchase him and put him in a film. The publicity department for the project gave Etzel a ...

If art, as a whole, could be thought of as a universal language — every culture on Earth indulges in it — then different types of art could be considered its many dialects, with books being one of my ...

Of 321 covers that Norman Rockwell made during his 47-year career at the Saturday Evening Post, “The Young Lady with the Shiner" was 277th.

The thing is, The Amazing Johnathan is not supposed to be alive. But, as “the expiration date came and went,” the entertainer is still here.