Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas

Konstantin Altunin's portrait of Medvedev and Putin in drag.  • After police seized paintings that, among other topics, depicted Vl...

Adrian Piper, Imagine [Trayvon Martin] , 2013 • Žižek : "Assange, Manning, Snowden… these are our new heroes, exemplary cases of ...

Speed Enforced by Drones , a guerrilla sign project by Stephen Whisler •  William Powhida and Jade Townsend 's newest collaboration...

Still from Omer Fast's 5,000 Feet is the Best, 2011 •  Trickle-down theory--aka "Reaganomics," once derided as "voodo...

• Miami Beach police tasered to death 18-year-old artist and graffiti writer Israel Hernández-Llach early Tuesday morning. His crime: writi...

David Hammons, In the Hood , 199 • The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture , now under constructi...

Docked raft at night. Photo: Tod Seelie • In the spirit of the Miss Rockaway Armada and Swimming Cities of Serenissima , Swoon and her ...

• Berlin police say they've opened an investigation following artist Oliver Bienkowski's protest over US spying Sunday night: he ...

Stress (Monumental) , Yoan Capote • Via @dansinker , a 1995 news report on how the CIA "used American modern art--including the wo...

" No Man's Land " (2004) from Zander Olsen 's Tree, Line • " Pick your targets well ," writes Jonathan Jone...

• A student at Cambridge in 1979, artist John Devlin was forced to move home to Canada after a year due to mental illness, and ever since he...

Big Yellow Rabbit , Florentijn Hofman , Oreboro, Sweden, via Juxtapoz • Damien Hirst's sculpture Charity , a 22-foot girl with a l...

Jerome Liebling , Butterfly Boy, New York , 1949 • Of Lei Yixin 's monument to Martin Luther King, Jr., just unveiled in Washingto...

Ceramic milk crate , Matthias Merkel Hess, via C-Monster • Combat photographer Adam Ferguson in the audio slideshow, " War is bor...

Irina Werning , La Negra 1980 and 2010, Buenos Aires • Irina Werning's been asking people to reenact childhood photos , to awesome effec...

• Pete Brook of Prison Photography and Wired's Raw File blog offers a great look at the California Department of Corrections , a cult...

Evan Drolet Cook, Places I Haven't Been (North America) , 2011.  • I particularly like Evan Cook 's work above in light of the rev...

Ben Venom , Don't Wake Me Lucifer! , quilt, 2010 • Heavy metal quilter Ben Venom , interviewed here , has a piece in Yerba Buena's e...

José Castrellón, from his series "Priti Baiks" • Street Use points out a series of photos of highly modified Panamanian "prit...

• Minneapolis yarn-art crew HOT TEA forgo spelling out their name on a fence near the farmer's market, instead opting to draw a pair o...