art

The Residents are an avant-garde art collective known for their musical and multimedia works. In 1966, they first stepped out on the San Francisco art scene, and since have influenced hundreds of musicians and artists such as Les Claypool and DEVO.

Nelson Shanks is an artist who got the incredible opportunity to paint former President Bill Clinton's official presidential portrait for the National Gallery of Art. That's quite an honor. So, naturally he decided to stick it to Clinton.

Here in Grand Rapids there's an annual art contest called ArtPrize. It's a 19-day city-wide art exhibit in which artists display their work for everyone to see. People and a juried panel then vote on which pieces they think are the best and the winners receive $560,000 in cash prizes. There are many mediums, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and even performance art. One piece was titled

You're familiar with Edward Munch's masterpiece 'The Scream', right?  The mask from the Scream movies were modeled from that painting...you know the one.

Ok...I was a little leery of the raw fish thing, but sushi grew on me. Anime porn? Cartoon sex, not my thing. Bukkoke? OH COME ON!!!  But, now this? Japanese weirdness goes to a whole new place with people vacuum-packed together in giant Zip-loc bags...

If Michelangelo had known women were willing to do this, the Sistine Chapel would have a plain white ceiling...

Would you drive a car made out of paper? Brooklyn artist Jonathan Brand has combined his artistic talent with his love of cars to build a car entirely out of folded paper right down to the spark plugs.

These licorice portraits look good enough to eat. Artist Jason Mercier is known for his celebrity mosaics made of candy, food, pills and make up and even celebrity’s own junk. For his latest project, called ‘Licorice Flix: Edible Movie Mosaics,’ he took scenes from some of his favorite movies and recreated them with pieces of black and red licorice in startling detail.

Israeli filmmaker Eran Amir created a pretty dazzling 100-second short by having 500 people hold up 1,500 synced photographs, thus creating a stop-motion, picture-in-picture effect.

How would you react if a painting suddenly came to life? Alexa Meade‘s painted people look like works of art but move like humans — making for an eerie sight. Whereas most artists would just paint their subjects on a canvas, Meade actually turns her subjects INTO the canvas. She creates life-size installations that are shockingly exact in their similarity to actual acrylic paintings. Upon first gl

For you artsy metal heads, Five Finger Death Punch is looking for a new logo, and you could win some killer stuff! Tickets for life to any 5FDP concert, $500, and a custom prize package is what the winning designer will receive.