Gurldoggie

"She wasn’t fair and she didn’t know the meaning of the word. If she had, she would have helped, not opposed, Nelson Mandela in his fi...

Guy Denning is a self-taught English artist currently living in France. Mostly known for his gritty and brooding paintings, Denning has hea...

by Ron Padgett The first time I saw Paris I went to see where the Bastille had been, and though I saw the column there I was too aware that ...

Very interesting article in The Guardian from a few weeks back about Ganzeer , an Egyptian graffiti artist. After the uprising in Egypt bro...

Fascinating developments out of Spain that you shouldn't overlook. For more than two weeks, since before Spain’s May 22 local elections...

Rather than display her considerable ignorance, Gurldoggie stays clear of anything resembling contemporary politics. That being said, it...

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dish...

Photographer Daniel Beltrá has made a career out of traveling to the world's precious ecosystems to document scenes of environmental de...

For the first time, the Ridenhour Book Prize will be given to a comic book. Joe Sacco's graphic novel " Footnotes in Gaza " h...

Poster artist and controversial folk hero / capitalist pig Shepard Fairey has created a new poster featuring Nobel Peace laureate Aung San...

Following the premonition of a beautiful birth, the remembrance of a haunting death. On this day 35 years ago, March 2 1974, Salvador Puig A...

The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami recently made the controversial decision to travel to Israel to accept the Jerusalem Prize for liter...

This is a guest post, from Liza. ____________________ Ingrid Betancourt , founder of the "Oxygen Green Party" in Colombia and a cr...

Charles Simic (shown here with his father in 1942) is currently the U.S. Poet Laureate. Unlike many of the past Poets Laureate, Simic has n...