artist

Tillie’s Art

Arts, Culture & Media

Jill Stoddard profiles a short, pampered New York artist with her name on her collar.

Car Alarms

Arts, Culture & Media

Lego Bible

Arts, Culture & Media

Everything That Rises

Arts, Culture & Media

We Heart Glaser

Arts, Culture & Media

Will the Real Ben Frost Please Stand Up?

Arts, Culture & Media

There are a lot of people in the world with the same name. I’ve heard that “Mohammed” is the most common first name worldwide, and that the most common surname is “Li” (though I’ve never heard of a Mohammed Li…yet). I’m not sure where “Ben Frost” ranks, but I’m amused by this nomenclature coincidence: Ben […]

Fredrik Saker

Fredrik Saker’s beautifully-faked ID

Arts

How a painter duped the Swedish government with a lifelike self-portrait.

The World

What designing lingerie and writing stand-up have in common

Arts

Courtney Maginnis, who’s perfecting her work at both. “As you go through the season designing something, it evolves and changes the same way when you start telling a joke,” she says.

Tyrus Wong

Famed animator who played a big role in the creation of Disney’s ‘Bambi’ dies at 106

Arts

Tyrus Wong, who had a gift for “evoking incredible feeling in his art” is an influential animator still today.

Collage of self portraits in black and white

After a well-known artist’s tragic death, Taiwan’s LGBT community demands marriage equality

Justice

Taiwan is considered one of the most liberal countries in Asia because of its LGBT-friendly environment. Yet Jacques Camille Picoux’s death speaks volumes about how being “friendly” is not enough.