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Cardi B emerged victorious in a copyright infringement lawsuit involving her 2016 debut mixtape. According to KABC, Kevin Michael Brophy sued the Bronx rapper over the cover art for Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1. The racy image showed Cardi sitting in the back of limo with a man’s head buried between her legs. Though the male model’s face was not […]
The NYPD is looking to track down the vandal responsible for defacing a Notorious B.I.G. mural in Brooklyn. As reported by CBS News, a Biggie mural located at the corner of St. James Place and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill was vandalized on Friday, as someone spray painted the rapper’s face and wrote the words “East Coast” across the painting. […]
Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe was sold on Monday for a record-setting price. Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” one of several iconic images the legendary artist made of Monroe in the 1960s, sold for $195 million at Christie’s in New York. The piece is now the most expensive work by a U.S. artist that has been ever […]
Kanye West and the Game have landed themselves in hot water with PETA over the extremely graphic cover art for their upcoming collaboration. Both rappers took to Instagram Thursday night to promote their forthcoming song by posting identical images of a skinned monkey, originally photographed by Nick Knight, against a blood-red background. Ye and Game captioned the photo with the title […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets An auction in Las Vegas consisting of nearly a dozen Pablo Picasso paintings and works hauled in over $100 million […]
A Danish artist turned in two blank canvases—which he titled “Take the Money and Run”—after a museum commissioned him $84,000 to use in a work of art. Jens Haaning gave the works to the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark after he was paid to recreate 2010’s “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income,” which […]
It looks like Playboi Carti‘s highly anticipated Whole Lotta Red album will actually be arriving… and very soon. Carti took to social media to share a pre-order link for the project and what is presumably the album’s cover, writing, “AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I t0LD U ! I L0v3 u PRE 0RDeR NOW.” He later tweeted “12/25,” confirming speculation […]
According to an announcement from Peru’s Ministry of Culture, a massive carving of an ancient cat has been discovered on an arid hillside in the southern part of that country. This carving was reportedly made more than 2,000 years ago, stretches 121-feet in length and makes up part of the nation’s famed Nazca Lines. For those unfamiliar (a.k.a. […]
Legendary artist KAWS has generously donated one of his pieces to support the mission of Free Arts New York—an organization that provides mentorship and art education to underserved youth. From now until Friday, the public will have the chance to own KAWS’ 2019 “What Party” piece by entering an online raffle at the nonprofit’s website. Each entry costs $100, […]
Four of Apple Music’s biggest Latin music playlists will receive a visual makeover. The streaming platform has teamed up with four mural artists as part of a push to celebrate the diversity of Latin music with new custom artwork for the RGTN Fire, Trap Kingz, Puro Jefe, and Puro Pop playlists. With artwork created by David […]
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