Adam Baran, New York City-based writer/director and contributing editor at BUTT magazine , has just completed the script of his latest film, Jackpot , a hilarious coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old's quest to score a stash of gay porn. ... MORE

Everyone screams for ice cream when they find the Coolhaus Truck parked on their block, and it was no different for guests at the opening of the Meulensteen gallery’s latest exhibition. ... MORE

From Mozart’s arias to John Lennon’s “The Ballad of John and Yoko,” to Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s “Bonnie and Clyde,” music has been inspired by some of history’s greatest love affairs. ... MORE

While less in-your-face than his previous exhibition -- where viewers had to step into a darkened room and drop quarters into a slot for apocalyptic, silkscreened mushroom clouds to appear -- Aaron Young's latest, "Built Tough," makes no ... MORE

Art world wunderkind Hanna Liden made a name for herself early on with her eerily beautiful landscape photography. Now, she brings that same quality to the sculptural medium in her latest exhibition, "Out of My Mind, Back in 5 Minutes. ... MORE

If the way to one’s heart really is through the stomach, Rirkrit Tiravanija must have more than his share of admirers. Now at Gavin Brown , the Buenos Aires-born artist with a history of dishing out tasty edibles in his exhibitions invites ... MORE

Karen Kilimnik's 1989 work "The Hellfire Club Episode of the Avengers" is currently on display at 303 Gallery . Drawing inspiration from the British TV series' most infamous episode (banned in the US at the time), in which John Steed and ... MORE

When an artist puts together an exhibition of their work, they usually edit it down to a few select images. But when Ari Marcopoulos put together his latest show, "Directory," which opened last night at New York City’s White Columns ... MORE

Unlike her onscreen family in Sixteen Candles , we could never forget to say happy birthday to Molly Ringwald. After all, she was the cover girl for teen angst in the 80s, thanks to her starring roles in that film as well as John Hughes's other ... MORE

What becomes a legend most? For James Byron Dean, it was a pair of denim jeans, a white t-shirt, and a fire-engine-red windbreaker. ... MORE

There’s an arcade fire burning at MoMA PS1 , where Beijing-based artist Feng Mengbo’s wall-to-wall interactive installation, "Long March: Restart," is currently on display. ... MORE

From the frank depictions of teenage sexuality and drug use in his 1995 movie Kids , to his fetishistic presentation of young Latino skateboarders in Wassup Rockers , to the graphic, shocking violence in his films Bully and Ken Park , Larry Clark is ... MORE

With her perfectly over-the-top fashion sense (which she proudly says is modeled after the town tramp), bawdy sex appeal, and indisputable talent, Dolly Parton has been dazzling us for over four decades with songs like “Jolene” and ... MORE

Living in the Information Age, we’ve never been more in touch with what’s going on in the world. But with that much being thrown at us, how much of it actually sticks in our conscience? This question is the basis for Amnesia , a group ... MORE

Words speak volumes in Gyroscopically Speaking , visual artist Lawrence Weiner’s latest exhibition, currently showing at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York City. ... MORE

The doldrums of winter are in full effect here in New York City, but you wouldn’t know it by walking into Half Gallery , where German artist Hermann Amann’s exhibition, "Fluorescence", is adding a much-needed splash of color to ... MORE

When it comes to becoming a successful artist, pedigree doesn't necessarily trump talent, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. ... MORE

After catching one of fashion writer and all-around-cool-kid-turned-singer/songwriter Gordon Voidwell 's recent hi-energy performances, I became an instant fan of his witty, thinking man's electro-funk pop (after all, who else makes dance music that ... MORE

Kurt Cobain was onto something when he sang, "With the lights out, it's less dangerous," which perhaps is why he constantly wore sunglasses. ... MORE

In an era where air travel means instant anxiety, subjecting yourself to full-body scans and high-powered X-ray machines, and crossing your fingers and toes that the TSA is doing its job, Taryn Simon’s latest exhibition, Contraband , now ... MORE

If there’s anyone who can artfully convey the glory in the grunge, the poetry in the perverse, or just make us wonder just what the hell it is we’re looking at, it’s Harmony Korine . From directing films like Gummo and Mr. ... MORE

Parker Posey dropped onto our collective radar by screaming, “All right, you little freshman bitches…AIR RAID!” to a ground full of quivering freshman girls in Richard Linklater’s classic high school flick Dazed and Confused ... MORE

Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” The same might apply to a 98-year-old painter firmly established in the art world since the 1930s joining forces with a decades-younger ... MORE

When Humberto caught M.I.A. in concert along with the OC crew when she swept through New York City a few months back, his eyes weren't just focused on her amazing stage show, he was also peeping her sick gold-framed sunglasses. ... MORE

When our fantastic copywriter KHIRA JORDAN invited us to her band BEHAVIOR ’s record release party at Cake Shop on the Lower East Side, we immediately put on our dancing shoes and headed over to the café/bar/record shop/music space. ... MORE

New Yorkers may fancy their fair city to be the epicenter of global culture, but Avenue of the Americas , a public art exhibition currently showing at LMCC’s LentSpace in TriBeCa, is a reminder that there are plenty of other players in the ... MORE

Our web intern Jeremy recently traveled to Berlin, and sent back this post on the city's vibrant street art. In a city whose modern history is deeply entrenched in issues of personal freedom and democracy, it’s not terribly surprising that ... MORE

Adam Baran, New York City-based writer/director and contributing editor at BUTT magazine , has just completed the script of his latest film, Jackpot , a hilarious coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old's quest to score a stash of gay porn. ... MORE

Meet our blog contributor Jeremy! Name: Jeremy Lange Hometown: Euclid, Ohio Currently obsessed with: Whatever Andre Leon Talley is doing right now, Alexander Wang sweatpants, “Bored to Death” , and The Trevor Project . ... MORE