Midge is a manic pixie Jewish dream girl in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
“Look, She Made a Hat” commemorates Midge’s one-year anniversary of taking the stage the night her husband left her for…
Of course Wes Anderson's curated museum exhibit is full of weird oddities
Let Wes Anderson poke around a museum for too long, and he’ll end up curating his own art show. No, seriously. That’s…
Banksy says his art-shredder malfunctioned, should've sliced up the whole damn thing
Is Banksy, anonymous art provocateur, the troll? Or is he, in fact, the one being trolled by an art community that…
Banksy's shredded artwork has been renamed and reborn as a new, just-as-expensive piece
Banksy, that scamp, caused the art world’s collective monocle to shatter when a print of his iconic “Girl With…
Sometimes you have to fall into a pit in order to truly appreciate art
Art, or at least real art, is all about suffering. An artist has to cut open their soul and pour it onto a canvas or…
World's most expensive painting sells for $450 million, kind of sucks
We don’t profess to be art critics here at The A.V. Club, but we do understand (vaguely) that $450.3 million is a lot…
Chicago just so happened to put a “Real Fake” sculpture in front of Trump Tower
In what must be quite an embarrassing blunder, the city of Chicago has installed a big sculpture in front of the Trump…
A man is rendering his children’s drawings into horrifyingly realistic creations
“Adorable” and “nightmare fuel” don’t typically overlap in a Venn diagram, but the Things I Have Drawn Instagram account
Museum Of Who Let Who Let The Dogs Out Out? to finally answer who let the dogs out
It is the question that has beguiled and bedeviled mankind for 17 years: Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out?…
We Told You So is an invaluable if imperfect primer on Fantagraphics and comics as art
The underlying theme in the story of Fantagraphics Books is precarity. As one employee puts it: “From the time I…
This massive tome of H.R. Giger’s artwork might actually be evil
If you’re in the market for a coffee table book that can probably pull double duty as a gateway to a nightmare…
Buy Val Kilmer’s $150,000 tumbleweed
What is “art,” and who is an “artist,” and who are we to judge what art is “worth”? Is the wind as it shapes the…
David Bowie’s art, furniture, and turntable are going up for auction
More than 350 pieces of the late David Bowie’s art and furniture collection are going on sale next month at Sotheby’s,…
Naked Donald Trump statue now available for your personal collection
Powerful art is born from political strife, from the Troubles-inspired murals that dot Northern Ireland to the Pablo…
Chicago-area official rules that rap and rock don’t qualify as “fine art”
Answering once and for all the nebulous question of what counts as “fine art”—as only a mid-level Illinois bureaucrat…
Artist turns old records into rad pop-culture clocks
Thanks to the vinyl revival, there are a ton of records currently in circulation. And artist Corey Vaspasiano is…
Giant Olympics-themed art takes over Rio
This new Olympics-themed art installation by French photographer and artist JR serves two purposes: It honors the best…
David Bowie’s private art collection will go up for auction later this year
David Bowie spent the majority of his 69 years on this earth as a living, breathing, walking, shimmying piece of…
An artist is creating a pop-culture oil painting every day this month
How long would you say it would take to create a quality oil painting? For the less talented among us the answer is…