Stunning Photo Series Disrupts Gender Norms... And More Arts News

August 28, 2013 Subscribe · Forward LOOK: Men And Women Disrupt Gender Norms In Homage To Oscar Wilde In the 18th century a dandy was defined as an immaculately dressed man who holds in great importance style, refinement and leisure -- think later figures like Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire. Even in its origin, the dandy life was about more than just bourgeois tastes. The aestheticized lifestyle opened up a space of creative possibility, one where the dandy could perform his or her own persona, disrupting gender norms in the process.  Continue reading... BACK TO THE FUTURE Russian Biopic Sparks Controversy With BIG Oversight Painting With Pollution Has Never Looked So Beautiful LOOK: George W. Bush Painted A Cat And The Internet Is Excited About It What If Belle Wore A Hijab? Guillermo Del Toro's Sketchbook Is The Stuff Of Beautiful Nightmares 11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures LOOK: Guess Who Fell Victim To Beatlemania Just Like The Rest Of Us LOOK: Men And Women Disrupt Gender Norms In Homage To Oscar Wilde 11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures LOOK: George W. Bush Painted A Cat And The Internet Is Excited About It PAUL ROGERS 'On The Road' As An Illustrated Scroll (IMAGES) I started by making a drawing for every page of "On the Road" in a Moleskine sketchbook, picking images that appealed to me without the burden of trying to tell the story in a linear way. Continue reading... MARK RUBINSTEIN Elmore Leonard: A True Measure of the Man About three weeks after having sent out the galleys, a letter arrived by mail. It was from none other than Elmore Leonard, the most famous of the authors whom I contacted. Continue reading... CAMERON CONAWAY The Social Impact of Argument Art Though it can be argued that all art is argument art, there's no denying it: all argument art is not created equal. Some from the very beginning take a particular stance and, through the creative layering process, are able to make something both immediately relevant and sustainable. Continue reading... ELIZABETH SOBIESKI Asha Puthli at the GRAMMY Museum Asha Puthli was to become the first female Indian pop star, vocalizing breathily pre-Donna Summer, implementing her stupefying trills, scats and roars on numerous recordings in various genres and in multiple languages. Continue reading... ZEBA BLAY Una Noche Director Lucy Mulloy Talks Women in Film and Spike Lee I talked with Mulloy about the Una Noche, her working relationship with Spike Lee, her experiences as a female filmmaker, the importance of representation and what made her, a British director, so keen on telling a Cuban story. 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