The true story of how partisan U.S. politics, Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 conviction, Russian bots, and good old-fashioned witch hysteria launched the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. If you weren’t active on social media during the 2016 US presidential election, you can be forgiven for asking “what is Pizzagate?” While the conspiracy theory made headlines in 2016 after it led to a shooting in a Washington, D.C. pizzeria, it is still one of the more opaque moments of what turned out to be a pretty wild year in the news. Read More...
Let's just say, Piero Manzoni's concept art truly stinks. Wikimedia CommonsA can of Piero Manzoni’s shit, circa 1961.
Categorize this artwork beyond avant-garde and into the status of truly weird. In the tradition of Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ photograph, discover the story behind a man’s homage to human feces.
In 1961, one Italian artist named Piero Manzoni decided to fill tin cans with his excrement and call them art.
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Think back to when you were very young and someone first explained blindness to you. If you were me, it was a menopausal primary school teacher telling you to stand up and close your eyes. “That is what it is to be blind,” she said, fanning herself. “Your eyes don’t work, so you can’t see anything. I want you to think about how much harder your life would be if you were blind. Read More...
