Who: Yana Toyber Where she was born: Ukraine Where she lives now: NYC What she does: Visual artist What she’s currently working on: I am working on several projects simultaneously: EMBRYO, Which features Eva Fahler and her identical twin Mia [...]

Matt York/Associated Press A solar powered aircraft takes off from Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on Wednesday evening.   Read more about the pioneering flight here

Photographer Alice Proujansky already knew what childbirth looked like by the time she was in third grade. On two counts. She’d watched her mother push both of her younger siblings into the world, first when she was 4 and again [...]

AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe Young Buddhist monks juggle a soccer ball on the beaches of Sittwe in northwestern Burma (Myanmar). Later this week Cyclone Mahasen is expected to land ashore; thousands of residents of Rakhine State have already been forced to [...]

AFP/Getty Images Reshma Begum, a seamstress and mother of a young boy, was pulled out of the rubble of the Bangladesh textile factory collapse on Friday, 16 days after the disaster stole 1,125 lives. Begum was trapped in the basement [...]

Taslima Akhter, a Bangladeshi photographer and activist, captured the final embrace of two workers at the Dhaka factory collapse. Of the image, Akhter told TIME magazine: Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts [...]

Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters A farmer tends to the land, harvesting wheat in the fields of Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Victor Rojas/AFP/Getty Images A tanker truck carrying natural gas from Mexico City violently exploded leaving 20 dead in its wake. According to CTVNews, “Mexican trucks, often over loaded or unsafely operated, have been involved in a number of spectacular [and] [...]

Zhu Yinwei/Xinhua/Zuma Press A tightrope walker, Adili Wuxor, balances atop steel wires overlooking the Desheng River in Zhejiang province, China.

Zhao Zhongzhi/Xinhua/Zuma Press On a misty day in the town of Fenghuang, China, a tourist navigates her way across a rock path atop the Tuojiang River.

We hung around (literally) with Slow Magic for his show at Glasslands in Williamsburg. With his electronic/pop and energetic stage presence, Slow Magic truly knows how to start a dance party. He grabbed a ton of attention at SXSW this [...]

Damir Sagolj/Reuters Sectarian conflict in Burma (Myanmar) continues to displace hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims. With little concern from the government or attention from the international community, the future for these stateless people remains bleak. In this photo, [...]

The renowned photography fair, Paris Photo, has been brought to the United States for the first time this year, bringing a Parsian sensibility to L.A. art. Held primarily on the Paramount Pictures sound stages, the environment merges high art and mass media on a site [...]

  Inga Sarda-Sorensen captures a magnificent full moon over Manhattan.

Wooden, leafless branches are sprouting from his bony back like wings. In an empty, vast space he sits with his shoulders hanging down as if he has lost all hope. The picture screams loneliness. Christian Hopkins, who has been battling [...]

Judging by the composition and the dehydration of their work, we can feel some sort of irony in Synchrodogs perspective of this world. Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven are among my favorite emerging photographers, and I’m proud to say that [...]

In preparation for the most holy night in fashion and art commingling, aka the Met Costume Gala held on May 6th, everyone’s getting inspired by this year’s theme: PUNK. The exhibition will focus on the transition of punk fashion from “Chaos to Couture,” [...]

Art is supposed to make us feel good. We go to a museum or gallery to be amazed, to be affirmed, and, perhaps, to be moved. Art, if and when political, remains at a comfortable distance. Santiago Sierra’s work is [...]

The last time I saw Jamie Lidell perform, the electro-soul artist had just moved to Nashville and was getting acquainted with his new city at a tiny venue accurately called The Basement. It was about a year after the release [...]

In villages across Europe, from Poland to Italy to Germany, a tribal tradition still thrives, with its own distinctive WILD style. The Wild Man is as much a creature as he is a human, often dressed in furs or bones or grasses [...]

Photograph by Dan Marker-Moore Dan Marker-Moore captures the colorful ascent of a full moon over the City of Angels. The 26 year-old photographer used an Olympus OMD-EM5 camera and a 100mm lens for his time-laspse piece titled “Moon Rise Time Slice.”   [...]

Guillermo Legaria/AFP/Getty Images A student protesting in favor of expanded public education in Bogota, Colombia is hauled off by a police officer in full riot gear.

Fresh from a successful run of shows at SXSW, Haerts fêted the official release of their debut single “Wings” at a sold-out show at Brooklyn’s Cameo Gallery. Based in New York, the quintet brings together members from Germany, England, and [...]

As a young and emerging artist, Dan Finsel first developed his body of work by performing exercises found in the 1974 book The Inward Journey /Art as Therapy for You. These pieces are on view now in his linguistically deconstructed [...]

©Samuel James Ohioan photographer Samuel James documents the ongoing conflict throughout the Niger Delta between armed groups seeking access to the country’s oil wealth and Nigerian security forces that have no intention of ceding control.   See more compelling images [...]

©Jun Ahn Korean photographer Jun Ahn began her series of hauntingly beautiful self-portraits, titled simply Self-Portrait, while studying at Pratt Institute in New York. “There was a day when I recalled my adolescent years, I was sitting on the edge [...]

Students at  Allahabad University, faces smeared with colored powder, celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors in India on Tuesday. Bright colors, water balloons, lavish gujiyas and melodious songs are the ingredients of the perfect celebration. Holi will be commemorated across [...]

©Sim Chi Yin Beijing-based photographer Sim Chi Yin strayed from a burgeoning career as a journalist when she realized that her true vocation should be telling enthralling stories with her camera.   See more of her amazing work here

  Photos by Katie Chow

Photo by Deepak Mishra A morning scene on the river Narmada near Jabalpur, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Day 1 Fol Chen   Io Echo   Mitizi   NZCA/Lines   Day 2 Marianne Dissard   Paws   Day 3 CHVRCHES   Diamond Rings   Generationals   Icona Pop   St. Lucia   Day 4 Usher + Afghan Whigs [...]

Name: Hsuanya Seen: Bedford Ave., Brooklyn Occupation: On Break WILD Wish: To travel to the moon.

Name: Julian Vassallo Where he was born: Malta Where he lives now: Rome, Italy What he does: Architecture student and part-time photographer What are he is currently working on: I’m mainly a self-portrait artist, so I’ve been working on a [...]

Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters A Burmese woman perfectly balances her baskets as she rides towards market to set up shop near Sarlingyi township.

Last weekend, New Yorkers in the know donned their coziest sweaters and ventured into the snow to see London’s Veronica Falls at Bowery Ballroom. Kicking off with “Tell Me,” the opening track from the just-released Waiting For Something To Happen, the quartet delivered a [...]

Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press A mother huddles with her three children outside of their tent home in a slum of Islamabad, Pakistan. It is estimated that one billion people worldwide live in slums, a number that is set to double by [...]

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

Name: Maggie Occupation: PHD Student Seen: N. 8th St., Brooklyn WILD Wish: To retire on a sheep farm.

Photograph by Ande Truman A Lion snoozes under overcasts skies in South Africa. The lion is a vulnerable species, generally unable to thrive outside of national parks or private preserves. Estimates say that over the last two decades, lion populations [...]

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

No this is not a space invasion. Or a geyser spurting lava. Or a Photoshop trick made for some conspiracy theory blog. This piercing rod of light, either striking the earth or erupting from it (depending on your mood), is nothing more then a [...]

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

Max Rossi/Reuters Campaign posters in Rome provide a striking visual representation of Italy’s government — torn. Inconclusive elections this week, which left no party with a majority in parliament, leave the future of Italy uncertain and threaten to tip the [...]

  See more PFW Behind the Scenes here   All photos by Miguel Rosales for The WILD

Feng Li/Getty Images When picturing the smog filled air of Beijing, it’s so not difficult to imagine the deadening of one’s senses. The haze appears to create an atmosphere of cinematic dystopia. In the above photo — snapped in none [...]

Mohammad Rakibul/NatGeo A group of Bangladeshi youth take part in an afternoon cricket match amongst friends in a dried out field.