Are you sitting comfortably? Good... so was Giuseppe Zangara, 78 years ago today, when authorities at the Florida State Penitentiary flipped the switch on "Old Sparky" and sent the prisoner sic ...
From severed arms to crosses made from marijuana, shocking imagery in ads aims to get our attention – and that they do. Advertisers are using bold and bizarre visuals to draw eyes in an ...
Patricia Piccinini is an artist who likes to make people feel uncomfortable. She creates sentimental scenes full of love and motherliness, but starring human/animal hybrid looking creatures that ...
Smoking wasn't always unhealthy, at least, in the eyes of the public. Knowing what we know now about smoking's effects, and the checkered history of cigarette branding in America, vintage ...
The death penalty is a hotly contested political debate, but it wasn't always so controversial. Executions have been the ultimate punishment in societies since humanity formed even the semblance ...
Frank Frazetta (1928-2010), perhaps more than any modern artist, managed to bridge the gap between past and future while bringing both to brilliant life in the present. Evoking primal emotion, ...
Chinese artist Shi Jinsong created sculptures depicting baby accessories which would fit right in as toys for the Addams Family or for a future Terminator baby. Strollers, cribs, rattles, and ...
Crime and punishment have been a necessary part of human society since we first began living in groups, and as long as laws have been in effect, there have been punishments to match. Whether ...
Dolls have long held a singular ability to unintentionally scare the daylights out of children and adults alike, for reasons that aren’t always easy to voice. But some artists have learned to ...
Ephemeral, always changing, portraits are all about capturing a person or persons in a precise moment of time. Portraits were once only about facial expressions, but creative photographers look ...
