Art
Video: The exploration truck that could take you anywhere on Earth
Where do you want to go? — Visionary designer Bran Ferren is building the ultimate discovery vehicle. Motherboard and KAYAK head to Applied Minds HQ in Burbank, LA to see it in action.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Video: Artist Kyle Platts on making a living from smutty and surreal illustrations
Bogeys, buttholes and boners — Check out this video profile of Kyle Platts, one of the twenty artists and photographers involved in transatlantic skate art initiative the LB Project.
Written by: Alex King
Ai Weiwei’s new project in Lesbos: Making art that responds to the refugee crisis
A memorial to asylum seekers — After his studio in Shanghai was torn down and his studio in Beijing bugged, Ai has opened up a new space to make art about the plight of refugees.
Written by: Josh Gabert-Doyon
Meet Gay Henry: the straight drag artist blowing people’s minds
Subversive drag — Guy Henry Mueller is channelling the countercultural roots of California’s drag scene to flip perceptions. But guess what? He’s not gay.
Written by: Steve Lafreniere
Video: The street artists who bombed primetime with ‘Homeland is racist’ graffiti
Homeland Is Not A Series — Caram Kapp explains why the Arabian Street Artists had to challenge Homeland’s inaccurate and damaging portrayal of the Middle East, War on Terror and the refugee crisis.
Written by: Alex King
Turkish artist paints ordinary life back in to photos of wartorn Syrian cities
Life Without War — Oğuzhan Cin’s moving series evokes the everyday lives destroyed and the dreams lost for Syrian children.
Written by: Alex King
Animation: American astrophysicist Carl Sagan contemplates the final frontier
Royal Institution: A Place Called Space — We've already seen a lot of our planet, said space scientist Carl Sagan in this famous talk, it's time we see a bit more of space. Brought to life in animation.
Written by: Ella Ackroyd
Video: Artist who transformed 100-year-old church into a rainbow skatepark
Okuda x The Church Brigade — Madrid street artist Okuda teams up with The Church Brigade to create a 'Sistine Chapel' for skateboarding.
Written by: HUCK HQ
In Pictures: The radical Italian discos of the '60s and '70s
Architecture exhibition at ICA — Camels, vegetable gardens, magic carpets and multi-colours were all fair game in the free-thinking discos of Italy's radical past. New exhibition at ICA London explores.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Banksy gives the Syrian refugee crisis a new face: Steve Jobs
New murals appear at Calais’ Jungle refugee camp — Banksy challenges attitudes towards Syrian refugees, highlighting Apple founder Steve Jobs as the son of a Syrian migrant.
Written by: Alex King
