Audiophiles, book nerds and culture vultures in general have been fairly bombarded by images of Japanese adolescence of late. And what strange images they've been. Between Gwen Stefani's robot-hipster ...

Grotesque is a film that has stuck with me for a very long time. I’ve written about it before, and watching the movie is actually what got me into film writing and academics. It is a compelling and ...

Leonardo da Vinci, "Testa caricata e busto di profilo d’uomo verso sinistra" (c. 1490), at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca-Milano (© Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mondadadori ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Q I hear people use “grotesque” when they really, to my mind, mean “gruesome ...

Many artists and others were lowered in to see the decorations in the "grottoes" In recent days an opponent of Hillary Clinton was accused of "grotesque misogyny" while the lack of broadband in rural ...

It’s hard to imagine two 20th century American photographers more diametrically opposed than the macabre visionary William Mortensen and Ansel Adams, poster boy for so-called straight photography.