A gene mutation that leads to increased risk of schizophrenia is now showing a relationship with increased creativity according to new research. Perhaps that explains the artistic temperament.
Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company is your go to brand for all of your crime fighting essentials: gravity, antimatter, etc. Sales of these whimsical products help support young writers.
Today's beauty queens may be trashy rednecks, but were they any better in days gone by? Perhaps not, but everyone looks classier in black and white.
To celebrate Degas' 175th birthday, WH Chong remembers a painter who set about liberating the female figure and female nude from the calcified postures and boundaries of the classical ideal.
German prosecutors must decide whether a sculpture in a Nuremberg art gallery of a garden gnome performing a Hitler salute contravenes German law. Is it ridiculing or glorifying the gesture?
Send First Dog on the Moon pictures of your pets and he publishes them, often with nasty comments. For background reading, see Readers' pet gallery Part 1.
If a model fell on a runway and a photographer was there would anyone see her collapse? Oh yes. This is what schadenfreude looks like.
LIFE features a confronting collection of photos documenting life inside the modern Klu Klux Klan.
A curiously beautiful collection of surveillance photos taken by the Czechoslovakian secret police in the 1970s and '80s.
To some Crikey office members, coffee is more necessary than air, water and protein. We review a new product that's trying to replace the disposable paper cup.
