Ted Sterchi, a London-based web developer and the guy behind Grindr Illustrated, started painting some of the inanimate faces he saw on Grindr in an attempt to soften the otherwise hard, sexually aggressive profile pictures he was confronted with every time he logged into the app…
Recently I decided to go back to school to study science, and, astoundingly, most people I’ve crossed paths with have been enormous dicks about it. Even the secretary at the office of the registrar said, “Science? How do you know you want to study science? Science is hard, you know.”
Yoko Ono is probably one of the most active people her age. She just presented her 2013 Courage Awardsfor the Arts to Julian Assange of Wikileaks, has stood behind Pussy Riot, and is campaigning with Jeff Koons and Lady Gaga for Artists Against Fracking.
Mikhail Bortnik, the founder of the revered fashion brand Mishka, lives on a quaint street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn—a neighborhood that used to be full of Polish immigrants and is now most famous for being where Girls is shot.
I’m Nick Gazin and this is my VICE column of news and reviews pertaining to comics and illustration and things that appeal to people interested in that stuff. I hope you like it.
On Tuesday the flaccid penis fans on the New York State Supreme Court dropped the hammer on Nite Moves, a strip club on the outskirts of Albany that has had the taxman on its ass claiming it doesn’t host “dramatic or musical arts performances.” In a 4-3 ruling, the judgment against Nite Moves is forcing the club to pay nearly $125,000 in taxes owed on cover charges and lapdance fees. After the decision was announced, I spoke with Stephen Dick Jr., the club’s owner, to get his reaction.
On Monday, September 3, I took a cab out to JFK for a nonstop flight to Salt Lake City. In the lounge area, sleepily waiting to board, no one really looked like a Mormon. This wouldn’t have actually occurred to me, but I had been warned.
Having turned the craft of international art smuggling into an art in its own right, Michel Van Rijn was once wanted by authorities all over the world for sneaking valuable pieces of art across sea and land. With millions in the bank, Michel lived the life of a playboy.
Dear readers,
My name is Jamie Taete and I write for VICE. Just before 8 PM on Saturday evening, an email entitled “Donald Trump is obsessed with Jamie Taete” landed in my inbox.
The sender was someone called “Peterbd”—a name I didn’t recognize. As you can imagine, this was fairly disorientating for me.
So I’m gonna do what I always do when I find something confusing and creepy—post an unedited version of it here for your amusement.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been traveling around Canada, hanging out with some of our favourite up-and-coming artists and guess what? We brought cameras with us and put together a brand new video series for you. It’s called Artist2Artist, presented by our friends at Bombay Sapphire, and it all starts today when Montreal painter Jody Hargreaves paints a painting inspired by the Bombay Sapphire bottle.
