“Because dough is a live material, it needs to be made on site,” says Santina Amato, who’s fresh from a photoshoot for the NYC-based iteration of her ongoing time-lapse series, Portraits of Women With Their Weight in Dough. “When the dough is ready (normally about 30 minutes), we place it…

Ches Perry: The Timeless Allure of Hand-Painted Signs Step aside, digital design, and make way for the magic of hand-crafted signage. On today's podcast episode, host and…player.captivate.fm Step aside, digital design, and make way for the magic of hand-crafted signage. On today’s podcast episode, host and NOT REAL ART founder Scott “Sourdough” Power sits down with Chicago-based sign painter Ches Perry to discuss the timeless allure of hand-made art. “Never dreamt I’d be painting signs for the…

As a child, Italian artist Giovanna Masseroni had a mirrored desk that caught the moon’s reflection and flooded her bedroom with pale light. When daytime came, she followed the sun’s light “room by room,” beguiled by the flickering shadows and shifting color temperatures that fell across the tables and doorways…

Tomer Peretz: Why Good Artists Make Bad Choices For artists and entrepreneurs, risk comes with the territory. Today's guest, Los Angeles artist Tomer Peretz, embraces…player.captivate.fm For artists and entrepreneurs, risk comes with the territory. Today’s guest, Los Angeles artist Tomer Peretz, embraces uncertainty in his career by making as many gaffes, blunders, and flubs as possible. …

When a faint crack appears down the middle of the Usher clan’s capacious, disintegrating mansion, its caretaker, Roderick Usher, fears the worst. Roderick’s visiting friend, the unnamed narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” dismisses his paranoia as a symptom of emotional malaise…

Badir McCleary approaches the large bronze bell, eager to pull its lever and strike the last note of former national anthem contender “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” Only seconds later, the Los Angeles filmmaker returns, dejected, without a single song credit to his name. “Let Freedom Ring,” Paul Ramírez Jonas’…

Art World Horror Stories: 5 Practical Lessons From 30 Years of Art World Horror Happy Halloween, trick-or-treaters! Grab some candy corn, a mug of hot cider, and a blanket-it's time for our third and…player.captivate.fm Happy Halloween, trick-or-treaters! Grab some candy corn, a mug of hot cider, and a blanket — it’s time for our third and final art world horror story of the year. …

“The theater’s always dying,” Masha Tsimring tells me, calling long-distance from NYC where she’s lived and worked for the past 10 years. …

Sophie Gamand is the patron saint of pit bulls in flower crowns. “For decades, pit bulls have been demonized by society and portrayed as hellhounds,” the French photographer says of the idea behind Pit Bull Flower Power, an ongoing series that celebrates the playful and affectionate nature of the breed…