Speaking of tripas, one artist in the UK is using discarded sheep stomachs to make delicate, lace-like lamps. That could have been some might delicious haggis, though. We think the lamps look beautiful — they resemble honeycombs in texture...

Brazilian artist Romero Britto was trendy in the late 80’s but never quite went away, and now he’s unleashed yet more colorful sculpture on an unsuspecting Miami. His latest sculptures were recently unveiled at Miami’s “Grapeland” water-park, which actually...

There’s a new art exhibit on New York’s Coney Island entitled, “Waterboard Thrillride.” The exterior beckons people with a rather stiff hand-painted likeness of Spongebob Squarepants being waterboarded by fellow Spongebob character Squidward Tentacles next to a headline that...

You know when you wake up and you have that kind of nasty eye moco situation going on? Did you ever sort of look it and think, “This looks hot and I kind of want to rock it for...

Artist Alex Sandwell Kliszynski has created a series of manipulated photographs featuring men and women — mostly women, though — as sexless, but still very much sexualized, Barbie-like figurines. The images bring up a lot of questions about what...

Keeping with our theme this week of bats in your unmentionables, comes this adorable little bat tampon holder by German designer Katharina Ludwig. From her website: These animals symbolize the gap between childhood and adulthood. The soft part shows the...

Thanks to commenter Miss Fruitfly for directing us to this video about Brazilian street artists Os Gemeos (The Twins) who are (duh) twins from Brazil whose street art is like way cooler than the scrawl that often appears on...

Check out these cool photos by Dulce Pinzon, co-proprietor of Fresa Salvaje, portraying Latino immigrants in New York City as super heroes. From her website: The principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and...

Writer Daniel Cubias wrote an essay for The Huffington Post on the way Latinos view therapy. According to Cubias — and his mother — Latinos have historically and culturally favored music and art as a means of therapy, as...

We are consistently bemused by the disparate world views that exist between greater Mexico’s sexual conservatism and Mexico City’s sexual tolerance. Within a country that beats up its teenagers for wearing their hair a little gay, resides its capital...

We’re not entirely sure why this was sent to us as a tip (Lots of Latinos live in California? Latinos are a dirty people?), but it’s a nice change of pace from emails entitled “@dd fl3sh 2 y0ur p0L3!”...

A New Jersey truck driver and not, surprisingly, a Floridian one, has been sentenced to five years in prison after stealing Francisco Goya’s Children with a Cart. Steven Lee Olson (Never trust someone with three names. Ever.) and his...

With Father’s Day around the corner, this may seem a month too late, but the art exhibit at La Llorona Gallery in Chicago entitled “A Toda Madre” sounds worth checking out: La Llorona Art Gallery has the pleasure of...

Miami-native and current Brooklynite (Huh! How ‘bout that.) Teresita Fernandez was honored by Louis Vuitton at a private dinner party in San Francisco. Teresitititita is an artist whose sculptural installations often use materials like glass and aluminum to create...

“Artist” Mimosa Pale, in addition to having the best name ever, thinks the world is too phallic-centric. As a result, she has constructed a chocha-bicycle hybrid that she uses to ride around her hometown of Helsinki, inviting pedestrians to...

Galeria Clave, in Cordoba, Spain, has a fascinating/disturbing art inaugural exhibit featuring amazing artists such as Jorge Villalba, pervy Gerard Mas, Rafael Muyor, and our very favorite Samuel Salcedo, who apparently gets his aesthetic on by creating realistic figurative...

A new exhibit by photographer Walter Schels being shown in London has got people all in a tizzy and bloggers writing things like “all in a tizzy” because it deals with death. The exhibit features photographs terminally ill patients...

The recent hullaballoo over Yale art student Aliza Shvarts got us thinking. And we hate that. So we consulted Guanabee’s very own Gay Shrink and sat down to discuss Aliza and her magical, mystical, possibly creatively fictional uterine lining....

Tomorrow we’ll be announcing the two winners of our “Name Aliza Shvarts’ Art Project” contest… thing. The best titles get a pendant from Onch, who is made entirely of unicorn farts and Lisa Frank stickers. Truth be told, the...

Someone in New York is making subway posters into works of art and not just a place to rest your eyes while a man defecates on the platform beside you. [Gawker] Christina Aguilera defends her hideous fashion choices and...

Just a little reminder that we’re still in the midst of our “Name Aliza Shvarts’ Project” contest. So keep sending your title ideas to daniel at guanabee.com and you can be one of two Guanababies to win an Aliza-inspired...

We were so caught up in picturing what the inside of Aliza Shvarts’ fridge might look like, what with all the protein she’s stored up, and if she had to make a conscious effort not to buy mayonnaise for...

Because fictionally creative baby blood is already kind of over, German artist Gregor Schneider is focused instead on making a terminally ill person the object of your gaze. Death is kind of “his thing,” actually. He’s currently looking for...

Because Aliza Shvarts (that’s her actually working on the project) has not admitted, publicly, that she lied her senior art project was a work of “creative fiction,” Yale University has not allowed the work to be displayed: Shvarts has...

Yale University has threatened not to display senior art student Aliza Shvarts’ final project unless she admits the whole thing was fake as our enthusiasm in typing the name Aliza Shvarts one more fucking time: The Ivy League school...

Mexican artist Daniel Guzmán is having an exhibit at the New Museum in New York City. Who the what, you say? DANIEL GUZMAN, YOU TARDS! The piece on the left is entitled “Kiss My Ass.” Cheesy metal + Sexicans...

Onch, a jewelry designer from Los Angeles, has been inspired by Aliza Shvarts’ art to create some of his own. His “Aliza Shvarts” pendant is all a-swirl with red - reminiscent of roses, cherries jubilee, and miscarried baby brain...

Oh fuck us with a syringe and upload the video already. Aliza Shvarts, an artiste currently going through a much-publicized Red Period, is reportedly upset that Yale has come forth saying her “one girl, one cup” style self-induced pregnancy...

Tired of her yet? Us, too. Really. In this video, Aliza Shvarts talks about feminism, expression and freedom of speech. At one point, she mentions the “right of your own selfhood. We’re all people. We all have interior spaces...

Artsy semen junkie Aliza Shvarts is now famous. Congratulations! Damien Hirst and Matthew Snow are saving a seat for you. It is made of used condoms and diamonds and it is glorious. Anyway! Now that she’s famous, her life...

Ok, fine, internet. Fine. You’ve been hurling the “Aliza Shvarts-abortion-art project” story at us all day and we’ve been trying to ignore and hoping we could maybe avoid writing about it but, no. Here it is. After shvarting all...

Lucien Freud’s “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” might end up being auctioned off as the most expensive painting by any living artist. It’s predicted to go for $35 million naked lady boobies dollars. Freudian slip!: The Freud painting, which dates from...

We never thought we’d see the c/s sign hanging in a museum, but then we never thought we’d get paid to post pictures of Oscar De La Hoya in fishnets, either. It’s a new world, Latinos. And Chicagoans should...

Hey bloggers and froggers! The Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan is featuring a new exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind.” That’s near rhyme! Right in the title! And, as if that weren’t reason enough to go,...

Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas creates large-scale works using nothing but a regular ol’ blue ballpoint pen. Which we find pretty nifty. Not nifty enough to, you know. Buy. Or really look at for more than maybe three or...

Major cities in Brazil have been plagued — or decorated, depending how you look at it — by street art created by graffiti artists who often work at night to avoid being caught by authorities. Our favorite of these...

Beverage company Dr. Pepper’s “Sabrosura Art Contest” invites you to pick among 23 artists to decide which is, alternately, the most “zesty” or “spicy.” You know. Like a chalupa: Starting today, online voting at http://www.drpeppersabrosura.com, will determine five finalists...

A museum dedicated to laziness featuring couches and televisions has opened in Bogota, Colombia. According to an the article from BBC News, the idea behind it is to get people thinking about extreme laziness and its opposite, extreme work,...

Diego Rivera, a Mexican muralist of which you have never heard, is finally getting some attention from the art world. We have The New York Times to thank for letting this obscure artist emerge from beneath the dark shadows...

To honor the first centenary of Frida Kahlo’s birth, Converse has produced 3 limited-edition shoes inspired by the Mexican painter. Our favorite model, called The Two Fridas, lets you relive the moment when Frida Kahlo’s vagina was pierced by...

An art installation at London’s Tate Modern museum by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has managed to injure 15 people since it was unveiled about two months ago. Museum goers have been tripping over and falling into Shibboleth 2007, the...

Los Angeles’ Petersen Automotive Museum recently opened “La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels,” an exhibit featuring lowrider cars, bikes, photos and other historic memorabilia relating to lowrider culture. Like our virginity? Kidding: Lowering the bodies of old,...

Remember that Rufino Tamayo painting some chick found in the trash? As if you’ve been thinking about anything else. Well, it sold for $1,049,000 at Sotheby’s auction of Latin American art on Tuesday. Other works weren’t quite so popular...

Archaeologists uncovered a 4,000-year-old cave painting in a northern temple in Peru yesterday. Researchers used carbon-14 dating techniques to determine the temple walls were built sometime around 2,600 B.C: The painting depicting a deer caught in nets marks the...

Actor, comedian and art collector Cheech Marin received a Legacy Award from The Smithsonian Latino Center for his role in promoting Chicano artists. He certainly does wear many hats. Cheech credits his Catholic upbringing for helping him become such...

Manhattanite Elizabeth Gibson stumbled upon something other than a hypodermic needle when on a morning walk through the city - a stolen painting by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, lying on a pile of garbage. The painting, “Tres Personajes” could...

A sculpture of Jesucristo made out of six-feet of anatomically-correct, rich, delicious, milk chocolate that was stopped from showing in Manhattan last April amid protests from The Catholic League (like The Human League but without the human part), is...

Four vandals broke into an art gallery in Lund, Sweden Friday and destroyed photographs by American artist Andres Serrano. The exhibit entitled, “The History of Sex,” features racy photographs of sex acts including a naked woman fondling a horse....

Colombians, in their need to worship everything to death, are getting ready to unveil a magnificent statue of native pop singer Juanes in his home town of Carolina del Principe. The statue, a doppelganger for Disney’s John Smith, will...

Meet David Ford of Kansas City. David is one of those performance artists you can’t believe doesn’t get beat up like every single day. Recently he flew his entourage of 24 to Williamsburg, Brooklyn where he created “art” by...