LaToya Ruby Frazier’s photographs of Braddock, Pennsylvania mix childhood nostalgia with the bitter reality of a city destroyed by the global economy.

Alas! Poor Yorick! His skull is made of paper.

Two corpse heads discuss representation, immanence, and narcissism.

Mutilated fashionistas in pink plastic surgery offices.

Virulently surreal paintings inspired by an artist’s struggle with HIV.

Olympic host cities pour millions of dollars into building facilities for the games, but what happens to the expensive structures when the festivities are over?

An addictive new website unpacks the stories behind lost works of art from the last century.

Marianne Boesky Gallery’s latest exhibition investigates the gradual, natural deterioration of material.

You know Henri Rousseau’s paintings of lion attacks? He made those based on taxidermic displays. If you liked that, this is the book for you.

Photographer Pinar Yolaçan accessorizes the women in her portraits with raw meat and animal parts.

Photographer James Cathcart captures the unofficial graveyards for planes and automobiles, some of which might have once been in your very own backyard.

Andrea Mary Marshall has re-designed the current cigarette warnings and images that Mayor Bloomberg has successfully haunted (and then taxed) you with on the front of cigarette packets. Her warnings now read “OMG,” “Deliver us from evil,” “Have mercy,” “Holy smoke,” and “Forgive us our sins,” instead.

Using Marlboro Red 100 cigarette boxes as her literal canvases, Marshall paints on provocative symbols with acrylic paint in this series titled “Marlboro Mary.”