Amy Kellner
The 90s Were Intense
I first saw Marlene McCarty’s artwork in the late 90s. She made a series of huge portraits of teenage girls who had killed their mothers, accompanied by captions describing the murders in grisly detail. The girls were drawn painstakingly with no...
Live Freed or Die
Dolly Freed is my hero. In 1978, at the age of 18, she wrote this smart, funny, and frank manifesto called "Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money". In it, she explains how she and her dad (whom she refers to...
Preppy In Pink
If you are a young female person in New York in 1994 and you are not wearing X-Girl, you are not cool. Does that hurt your feelings?
Why I'm not killing myself today - excellent monkey photo
I know we just told you about this awesome art show called ANIMALANIA
Lynda Barry
If you were ever a weird kid or a sad kid, you have to read Lynda Barry’s comics and novels immediately because they will freak you out with how much you’ll relate.
A Gay, Orthodox Jewish R&b Singer
I've known Ari Gold since we were ten. We went to an Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva together. He was my first big crush because he sang jingles for TV commercials and we both loved Madonna, which, in the Orthodox community, automatically made us freaks. And...
Suck On This
The inspiration for my series of gum paintings first came to me when I was working on my papier-mâché boulders.