Elise Peterson’s #blackfolk Series Challenges the Art World’s Whiteness

From Foxy Brown, Grace Jones, Sade and more, Brooklyn-based artist Elise R. Peterson adds photos of prominent black figures to fine art paintings in a collision of creative eras. The collage series, called #blackfolk, is Peterson’s way of opening up a conversation around gender, identity, sexuality, blackness and people who are marginalized. Speaking to the FADER, she explains, “The work […] evolved into not only …

Watch a Cardboard Guitar Come to Life

For their latest experimental project, Signal Snowboards—a company known for previously building a skateboard, push bike and surfboard from cardboard—has ventured into the music world. Teaming up with Fender and Ernest Packaging, they built a custom Stratocaster guitar completely from the paper product and then passed it around to factory workers and musicians to test it out. Watch the cardboard guitar come to life at …

Anjelica Huston on How Film Shaped Her Feminism

In a new interview with Dazed Magazine, Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston discusses her celebrity-studded upbringing, early career and how working in film has shaped her feminism. She divulges a few glamorous stories from her nomadic years working as a young model and actress while simultaneously taking the position of the everywoman, saying “I really have a lot of sympathy with women. We’ve had a …