Franco Goes 'Psycho', Bone Artist, Venice Wrap-Up... And More!

June 4, 2013 Subscribe · Forward James Franco Goes 'Psycho' James Franco is going 'Psycho' for his most recent art exhibit, on view at London's Pace Gallery this week.  Continue reading... Band Students' New Take On The Hadouken Meme LOOK: Wrapping-Up The Venice Biennale You Won't Believe What These Flowers Are Made Of 'Stolen' Mural Sells For $1.1 Million WATCH: Short Film About Man Losing His Dog Is Incredible WARNING: This Needlework Is NSFW 'Stolen' Mural Sells For $1.1 Million Filmmaker Recreates Herzog Masterpiece In 'Fitzcardboaraldo' WATCH: Short Film About Man Losing His Dog Is Incredible James Franco Goes 'Psycho' Black Bodies In Propaganda KEVIN O'KELLY Why the "Death of the Book" Is a Dead Subject Talk of the end of books is simply another example of the gulf between the need for pundits to have an impending seismic change to laud or bemoan and the reality experienced by most of us. Continue reading... GEOFFREY FLETCHER Actresses, Ass Kicking and Art Films It feels as if we're constricting the boundaries of mainstream art instead of pushing them. In a risk-averse environment where many people fear for their jobs, "nothing ventured, nothing lost" is the prevailing sentiment, but it is also a recipe for mediocrity at best. Continue reading... LEONARD SLATKIN A Day at the Races Certainly a performance must be judged on its own merit and will usually be a matter of taste on the part of the listener. But how can one truly be objective in a field that is all about subjectivity? Continue reading... BEN J. COTTON On the Streets - A Weekly Round Up of the Freshest Global Street Art (June 5th 2013) It has been a while since Brazilian artist Nunca visited UK, but the artist is back, completing two new large-scale murals, one in Chichester and one in Dulwich, part of the Chichester Art Festival and Street Art London's 'Baroque the Streets' one. Continue reading... JOHN FEFFER Curating the Curators There is an art to curation. Curators must not only choose the works for an exhibition, which involves making aesthetic judgments about "good" and "bad" as well as what fits together according to the exhibition's theme Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003