Fraud, redemption, suicide, fear of failure, the ineluctable dance with death, alcoholism, and the addictive joy of creating art -- these are a few...

In her "Artist's Life Manifesto," legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic offers this advice:

An artist should avoid falling in love with another artist.
An artist should avoid falling in love with another artist.
An artist should avoid falling in love with another artist.

Her fervent insistence on...

When Frank Ocean came out of the closet in July and nabbed two Grammy awards last month, many declared his triumph as a watershed moment for gay performers. If the hip hop community could embrace an out recording artist,...

2012 was the year that was supposed to destroy us -- and it nearly did.

After surviving an unparalleled disaster that rocked us to our core (Lindsay Lohan in Liz & Dick), we pulled together as a nation of Thelmas and Louises, ready to boldly drive off the fiscal...

Lovers of camp, rejoice! Your must-have stocking stuffer has arrived just in the St. Nick of time. Presenting Just Me, the debut album by Texan hairstylist-cum-chanteuse Lisa Gail Allred.

Many of you may already be familiar with this one-of-a-kind songbird's glorious...

Poor Jessica Chastain. After playing Brad Pitt's dazzling wife in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and a blonde bombshell in The Help, a few nasty voices on the stage of the Walter Kerr Theatre are calling her plain, simple, and witless.

The newly anointed face of

"If anyone's gonna piss on him, it's gonna be me," bawls a peroxide blonde fake-baked Nicole Kidman, as she squats down on the sun-drenched, cherubic face of Zac Efron. A moment this unexpected and tasteless deserves to be canonized alongside anything uttered by the sublime Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls. Unfortunately,...

Buried underneath the heap of controversy caused by that pesky 47% video sits an equally revealing tidbit from last week's news cycle: Mitt Romney prefers Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to Alana "Honey Boo Boo Child" Thompson.

During his visit on...

I used to associate Pride parades with shameless displays of sweaty skin, manorexia, and binge drinking; pierced leather daddies; shabby attempts at drag; and criminally overpriced parties. Thankfully, Manchester, England, has rescued me from these stale stereotypes and shown me that Pride...

Little Birds is a tragic tale in which the poor stay poor, government stays out of the business of welfare, and a legitimate rape at the film's climax does not lead to pregnancy. What a perfect film to accompany this week's GOP convention! Too bad it's a morbid bore that...

After winning us back with Midnight in Paris and earning his first Oscar in 25 years, Woody Allen assaulted audiences with one of the more tedious, inane, lifeless films of his entire career this summer: To Rome With Love. The workaholic director (who has been reliably churning out a feature...

When archeologists attempt to understand the values of a culture, the trash they unearth often provides the most revealing clues. And so, as we approach the dog days of a summer dominated by chicken friction, let us take the pulse of our nation's attitude toward gay Americans by diving into...