Danai Molocha

Mesmerized by the charisma of personalities as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Manson, Lena & Katya Popovy decided to pour their bottomless talent into doll making.

From her candid early work on New England’s Carnival Strippers to her coverage of combat training in Louisiana’s Fort Polk, American photographer and filmmaker Susan Meiselas invites the viewer to give much more than just one look.

There’s an unquestionable serenity and grace permeating Yang Yongliang‘s work that hardly betrays his 36 years of age. Echoing the imagery and unsurpassable craft of centuries-old paintings by great Chinese masters, his figures are languid and his landscapes bear a …

In the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s radical manifestos, nothing is what it is supposed to be: the straight line is atheistic and immoral and an uneven floor is a melody to the feet.

The artists selected to represent Cuba at this year’s Venice Biennale come with some serious credentials for creating unconventional, thought-provoking art.

The punk-inspired, post-apocalyptic strips of Tank Girl first made a countercultural comic art hero of Jamie Hewlett in the tail end of the ’80s…Until his collaboration with instrumental Britpop figure Damon Albarn, in the uber-successful virtual band Gorillaz, put a …

This is Zozoville. An extraordinary, fuzzy, and snug place where life has a million colours and no one has to be perfect. Well, so long as they are fluent in monster language.

A pin of cicada shells – you could call it a challenge for the average accessories fan. But then, mortality is not easy to digest in any shape or form. Setting aside the egocentric and ever-lingering tumult of human mortality, …

The 2015 winner of the prestigious Prix Pictet (the global award in photography and sustainability) Valérie Belin has, since the mid-’90s, photographed a series of brides, packets of potato chips, bodybuilders, and mountains of Venetian mirrors that meet in incongruous …

Sheep, skulls, and spider webs… mountain laurels, moths and dog-strangling vine: Earth’s beautiful, curious things find their way into Adipocere‘s hand embroidery, putting a deviant 21st-century spin on a well-respected—and so far largely unadventurous—pastime. Hailing from Australia, Adipocere , a.k.a. …

History, art and alchemy go hand-in-hand in Agostino Arrivabene‘s enigmatic pairings. “Hierogamy” imaginatively flutters between spiritual delight and earthly misfortune, darkness and light, love and sacrifice – men and women, as one, in sublime union.

Seemingly overnight, a vacant lot on London’s Ashwin Street transformed into a sober Victorian facade, reminiscent of the terraced properties that used to lay there years ago but inverted, and reflected onto a massive mirror — leaving visitors even more …

Exploring the conflicting nature of personal and social liberation, Norway’s Biennale exhibition Beware of the Holy Whore: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg and the Dilemma of Emancipation finds the common thread between works of the famous painter and artist Lene Berg’s …

French photographer Rimel Neffati‘s (and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine issue 006 | Sept 2014 featured artist) answer to having no technical knowledge working with a camera was to strike a pose and let her instincts take their course. Since she snapped …

Combining live art, activism and performance with accompanying music, exhibitions, installations and artist panels, SPILL’s multi-faceted program typically challenges the body and the mind with the working title On Spirit.

Keeping up with with Booth Gallery’s restless artistic and intellectual explorations, fine artist, illustrator, art director and designer Jesse Draxler brings to life, in unapologetically surreal, dadaist, expressionist black & white, the notions of everyone’s inner battle with mortality – …

London galleries and museums are more often than not an overwhelming experience – an endless parade of disoriented visitors blocking your view and usually accompanied by a busy soundtrack of camera clicks. But there’s a different and far more interesting …