The artist’s dilemma: what constitutes selling out?
Intellectuals, academics and artists play a unique role in society: they preserve and defend both freedom of expression and the morality of choices. Artists can use their work as a means to communicate...
View ArticleSatan, Totalitarianism in America, and how a Bushwick Art Gallery got Banned...
Satan, Totalitarianism in America, and how a Bushwick Art Gallery got Banned from Facebook. The post Satan, Totalitarianism in America, and how a Bushwick Art Gallery got Banned from Facebook. appeared...
View ArticlePicasso the…sculptor? Disputed purchase brings attention to lesser-known...
A legal battle has erupted between art dealer Larry Gagosian and the royal family of Qatar, with each side claiming to have purchased a Picasso statue from Picasso’s daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso. The...
View ArticleOutsider Art Fair 2016
New York City once again hosts the wonderful Outsider Art Fair, starting today and running through January 24, 2016 at the Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street. Disinformation was invited to the...
View ArticleMysterious Scrapbooks Found in a Dump Reveal Secret Writings of NYMZA.
For forty years Dellschau’s thousands of Plates moldered in the darkness of a closed attic, gathering dust. The post Mysterious Scrapbooks Found in a Dump Reveal Secret Writings of NYMZA. appeared...
View Article“Witch Marks”– the Occult art of Gemma Gary
Gemma has an artistic practice which is integrated into her ongoing esoteric work. Her Art embodies her scholarly research and her intimate initatic understanding of her informing spiritual traditions....
View ArticleNASA Releases Vintage-Style Space Tourism Posters
Looking to inspire young pioneers in the fields of science and math, these posters are an artistic rendering of a future that could include the most exotic of travel destinations. The post NASA...
View ArticleMatthew Dutton’s “MIDNIGHT PARACOSM”
A paracosm is a detailed imaginary world created inside one's mind. This fantasy world may involve humans, animals, and things that exist in reality; or it may also contain entities that are entirely...
View ArticleSaint Bowie – an exhibition of artist made reliquaries.
Over 20 artists were asked to create new work with only four weeks notice when curator Stephen Romano came up with the idea to do an exhibition of reliquaries dedicated to communing with Bowie on the...
View ArticleTechno-Mystics Erik Davis and Michael Garfield on the Third Eye Drops Show
This conversation goes all over the place (in the best possible way). But, if I had to boil it down, I'd say it's all about evading the awe-sucking tentacles of society's deeply-entrenched dogma...
View ArticleWhile Banksy Makes Millions, Street Artists are Going to Jail
While most would agree there is a vast difference between mindless scrawl and a beautiful or thought-provoking piece of artwork, contradictory attitudes are regularly displayed towards the platform....
View ArticleHigh Priest of Church of Satan attends his curated show at Brooklyn Gallery
High Priest of the Church of Satan has curated an exhibition of artwork entitled "The Devils Reign" for Stephen Romano Gallery in Bushwick. The post High Priest of Church of Satan attends his curated...
View ArticleDavid Molesky’s RIOT PAINTINGS a disinfo interview.
In 2009, he returned to the US after an 18 month apprenticeship with the painter Odd Nerdrum in Iceland, Norway, and Paris. Molesky’s work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions including:......
View ArticleON FEAR, SUCCESS, DMT and STOICISM | A Conversation With Matt Xian of TIMEWHEEL
If we spent as much time nurturing our passions as we do our fear, the world would be a much shiner place. The post ON FEAR, SUCCESS, DMT and STOICISM | A Conversation With Matt Xian of TIMEWHEEL...
View ArticleCrafting a Painting, Crafting a Joke w/ Chris Bonno
Chris along with Carmen Morales and Ron Placone talk Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, Jonathan Winters, painting, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Jerry Garcia, Marilyn Monroe and similarities between crafting a...
View Article“D E S T I N E S I A” interview with curator by DH Dowling
Destinesia There is a realm that is known to artists. It is a realm where night is luminous. Where forgetting is powerful. A place where all must lose their way— Destiny +... The post “D E S T I N E S...
View ArticleSoft and Hard: The Mystical World of Salvador Dali
In the beginning of the twentieth century, a peculiar stirring in the universe, one Salvador Dali. Born to Catalonian parents in the north of Spain, Dali was the couple's second. Their first had died...
View ArticleShanxi – Zhang Xiao . “a glimpse of a world of pagan custom, dreamlike and...
These photographs were taken in Shanxi Province in northwest China. They document old customs originating from pagan ritual practices. They are, in effect, a voodoo-esque form of totem worship. The...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Hand by Barry William Hale
The doodle is an unfocused drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied they can be concrete representations or abstract, daydream drawings. The post The Devil’s Hand by Barry William...
View ArticleMasks: Mishima, Bowie, Thompson, Crowley
An anthology is in early development over at Modern Mythology, exploring the conundrums of identity, persona and presentation in the arts through the lives of four unique figures: Yukio Mishima, David...
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