Apparently, there is more to DJ-producer Diplo than some sick beat making skills and an impressive collaborative music resume. The Philly born artist is known for manipulating some of the dopest tracks, from house to hip hop. He is also credited for working with MIA, founding the record company Mad Decent, being 1/2 of Major [...]

“For a man imprisoned and conditionally released, neither neighbors nor strangers nor Beijing’s officials nor courts can be trusted.” Artist, subversive dissident, and freedom fighter Ai Weiwei was released from his secret detention earlier this summer, but he is far from a free man. His conditions for release were reportedly a ban on the use [...]

Pharrell’s new film, Tokyo Rising, premiered last night at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City.  The project was a creative marketing collaboration between Palladium boots and director Thalia Mavros.  The film takes Pharrell on a journey through the creative underground of Tokyo to get a sense of how the city has recovered from the [...]

An old school UK graffiti artist has regained prominence in recent years due in part to a tit for tat tagging feud with the most famous street artist in the world. Robbo began as a London-based graffer with a style similar to that of classic New York City, tagging trains with his signature calligraphy throughout [...]

The 4th annual Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City aims to showcase compelling and creative films while maintaining scientific integrity. This year’s festival will take place October 14-21, and will have screenings at locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, as well as select films online including past winners. “ISFF is the first science film [...]

Jane Evelyn Atwood was born in New York and has lived in Paris since 1971. In 1976, with her first camera, Atwood took as her first subject the universe of the street, on the rue des Lombards, after her encounter with Blondine, a prostitute of the neighborhood. For over a year, she spent evenings and [...]

Who: Monica Sharp; born in Houston, Texas; DJ Where: Brooklyn, New York What she’s currently working on: A few vocal tracks and events and trying to finish this mix Ive been procrastinating on for months. What she thinks there is too much of, and too little of: Too many bad reality shows… and not enough [...]

My Little Princess opened yesterday in the french movie theaters. The semi-autobiographic film by Eva Ionesco, starring Isabelle Huppert and introducing striking Franco-Romanian Anamaria Vartolomei, depicts the troubled mother daughter relationship Ionesco went through as a kid, while being her mother’s fetish model. In her debut feature, initially presented during Cannes Critics week, last May, [...]

Memoirs of a Dervish, by Robert Irwin, is a sincere but subjective account of what it was like to be a privileged Brit who converted to Islam in the sixties because he thought it was cool. “It was at my first year at Oxford that I realized I wanted to become a Muslim saint” is [...]

Artists are usually out-of-the-box people, and David Antonio Cruz is way up there with the greats in that respect. This Brooklyn resident and Yale graduate is easy to drop the influences that surround his haunting and beautiful work, best explained in “flybabyboyfly“, his first solo exhibition in New York’s Praxis International Art at Chelsea. Personal [...]

Last week the Nouveau Classical Project performed at the rooftop galleries of Silvershed, an artist-run project space in Chelsea. Collaborating with the host space, the group of exquisitely talented musicians paired up with Trivial millinery and artist Patrick Meagher to create and intersection of musical performance, fashion modeling, and art installation. The two-hour set featured [...]

Yancey Richardson Gallery debuted on Thursday, Field Recordings, a collection of photographs and sculptural pieces by Bryan Graf. The exhibition is the artist’s first solo show within the gallery’s main space, and highlights numerous works from Wildlife Analysis, a series of photographs that Graf took around the swamps and woods of his native New Jersey. [...]

From June 7th to June 11th, Meredith Monk will perform the revolutionary Education of the Girlchild: an opera first appeared in the art world in 1973. This critically acclaimed work, which won first prize in Music Theater at the 1975 Venice Biennale, captures Monk’s singular style, in which music, theater, image, and ritual are integrated [...]

Mike Mills is a man of many hats. As a director and graphic designer, his work has been featured in some bright spots of 90′s pop culture: an X-Girl ad, a Sonic Youth album cover, and several music videos for Air. He has also released books of his illustrations and photography, and designs posters, t-shirts, [...]

“All my light skinned girls to my dark skin brothers, Shades doesn’t matter heart makes the lover.” Wise words taken from the hit Wale song, Shades featuring Chrisette Michele. Apparently, Wale was not the only entertainer who noticed that there was an issue within the black community concerning skin color. Other artists have pointed out [...]

The Opera Gallery is a cozy, unconventional art gallery, comfortably located in one of the buzzing areas of NYC: SOHO, Manhattan. More specifically, Spring St. Nevertheless, to have a sophisticated yet nonchalant art gallery located in such a busy part of the city serves as a refreshing visual getaway for anyone who needs a colorful [...]

“Lindsay has an incredible emotional and physical presence on screen that holds an existential vulnerability, while harnessing the power of the transcendental—the moment in transition. She is able to connect with us past all of our memory and projection, expressing our own inner eminence. “ says Richard Phillips, who just directed his first short film [...]

A very svelte looking Beyoncé premiered her new video tonight, Run The World (Girls), which is the first single from her highly-anticipated fourth album. Set in an apocalyptic African landscape with a Tbilisi sign in the background (?) Beyoncé portrays a fearless leader of an army of dancing females ready to take over the world, [...]