The Gut Anarchism of John Cage
The strange beauty of a composer's avant-garde diaries
Art
Greek Bronzes and the Rise of Artistic Realism: Power and Pathos Exhibition
What rare Hellenistic statues tell us about the ancient world and 21st-century America.
Dutch Museum Renames Historic Paintings With More Politically Correct Names
PC hysteria: not just for Americans!
'The Court Has Listened to Hip Hop for Decades'
Federal judge uses his Drake and Eminem fandom to dispute copyright infringement claim.
LEGO Won't Provide Bricks for Ai Weiwei's "Political Works," But His Fans Will
Everything is not awesome when it comes to subversive reappropriation of colored plastic bricks to protest authoritarianism.
Friday A/V Club: The Totalitarian Hand
An aging Eastern European animator's protest against Stalinism
Is It Unethical for Caucasians to Cook Chinese Food?
The pernicious silliness of cultural appropriation censorship.
Science Works: And The Deaf Hear Video
Art was the first neurotechnology: A feel-good video to start your weekend
Ai Weiwei's Upcoming London Exhibition Will Have Everything But the Dissident Artist Himself
The celebrated Chinese artist was denied a business visa by the British government.
Defending Rihanna From the New Culture Police
Her "Bitch Better Have My Money" video is a slick, seven-minute slice of all of Rihanna's glorious pop toxicity-and that's "problematic."
Hunger for Fascism
Al Pacino withdraws from a play, and from the dark side of the Avant-Garde.
With Liberty and Drag For All! What We Saw at RuPaul's First Ever DragCon
Drag is finding a mainstream audience.
Edward Snowden Statue's Co-Creator Talks With Reason About Political Art, 3D Printing, and Going Legitimate
Artists wanted to "draw a parallel between what Snowden was fighting for and the ideals that the American revolutionaries were fighting for."
Taking Comics to the People
Artists are using new platforms to bypass gatekeepers and grow the comic book industry.
Fifty Shades of WTF
Everybody hates E.L. James' bondage fantasy except for hundreds of millions of readers and moviegoers. Maybe, just maybe, the fans are onto something.
Killer or Artist? Why Rap is on Trial.
Prosecutors' use of rap videos and lyrics as evidence is chilling artistic speech.
Fooling the Cameras
Leo Selvaggio plans to confound the world's surveillance systems by distributing lifelike masks of his own face.
Why Morphine Matters
It's the most significant chemical substance our species has ever encountered.
Are Video Games Art?
Why games should be taken as seriously as novels, films, and other forms of creative expression.
Why Two Artists Installed a Spy Lamp at McDonald's
Coversnitch is "bridging the gap between online and IRL" in the most terrifying way possible.
