Art by Alexandra Rubinstein

Her name is Alexandra Rubinstine and this is A Dream Come True (Celebrity Cunnilingus) - a series of verrrrry NSFW paintings featuring a bunch of celebrity men going down on women. The series, "was a response to the lack of heterosexual female perspective in representation of sexuality in mainstream media and pornography, which reflect as well as shape the way we interact in real life. I wanted to explore fantasy from women’s point of view," Rubinstein told BuzzFeed.

Rubinstein says she focused on cunnilingus because it's so underrepresented in porn, "which reiterates to the viewer that sex is about men and their pleasure," she said.

And that's the point for Rubinstein. So much visual culture eroticizes and objectifies the female body, she wanted to create something that "draws attention to and eroticizes men, making them the objects of desire, not the women." Rubinstein hopes that people will think a bit differently about female sexuality after viewing her works.

"it's about reframing the way we see female desire and sexuality," she told BuzzFeed. "Sexuality is just another extension of the behavior we expect of women; I think it’s important to recognize that it’s not innately timid, selfless, or non-existent."

DAN STOCKHOLM CLAY BRICKS

Sculpturer Dan Stockholm explores the process of making an object by capturing its performative actions within the work. Just look at this work of Art. By Hand is one of several pieces by the artist. For this  installation Stockholm placed negative plaster casts of his cupped hands into a series of red clay bricks.. Some objects showcase both hands and others only hint to a sliver of a finger or palm.

The work was exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bethanien last spring for his solo exhibition HOUSE. You can view more of Stockholm’s sculptural works on his website.

Dan Stockholm (b. 1982) lives and works in Copenhagen and Aarhus. He studied at the Funen Art Academy, Odense DK, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, and Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin. Dan Stockholm primarily works with sculpture and objects. His working method involves equal parts: studio work, field praxis and research. He is interested in sitespecificity and in his works he investigates if the site specific can come into existence as something new between site and object. Often different localities are physically present in the works – in a material sense or existing of references. In his latest works he has been working with what he calls Performative Process: A performative execution of his works adding a narrative layer. Activation reactivation and transformation of material is often a part of his working method. His sometimes complicated processes cannot be accessed by viewing the work; but rather through narratives that can be activated in retrospect. This mirrors another interest of Stockholm's, namely that which happens when works oscillate between the seeing act and the imagination.

Dr. Cuerda - Visual Storyteller

From the Artist

"I am, above all, an architect. Restless and curious. Ambitious and patient; risky, but coherent. Rated with honors in different subjects of projects along my whole career. Architectural photographer with years of experience and author of short stories and architectural literature, awarded with several prizes in both fields. Interested in audiovisual design and new technologies with an innate facility for learning. Self taught. Energetic, conceived eager for knowledge and designed with an urgent need to work...

I love what I do."

Cal Redback Art

Surreal photographs of French artist Cal Redback, based in Paris, explore the relationship between nature and individual, but also the fragility of the human body and spirit through poetic compositions and montages.

Provocative Chinese Photographer Ren Hang Dead at 30

Chinese photographer and poet, Ren Hang, has died at the age of 30 of suicide. Ren Hang was born in 1987 in Jilin, China. His unique arrangements of nude models, usually his friends, conveyed a casual eroticism that often earned him censure from the Chinese government, including his arrest. Many people from the art world responded with expressions of sorrow for the loss of this talented young photographer and poet, who was only 30 years old.

Ren’s work has been included in group exhibitions worldwide, and has been beloved by fashion magazines. His work was featured on the cover of Aperture magazine in spring 2015, in its queer-themed issue. On January 27, Ren wrote a few words on Weibo which directly indicated his state of mind. “Wish for every year is the same: to die sooner,” he wrote, later adding, “Hope it can be realized this year.”

"Today we mourn the loss of Ren Hang, a talented and rising young photographer who passed away well before his time," Eli Klein of Klein Sun Gallery wrote on Instagram this morning. "@kleinsungallery was honored to host his solo exhibition last year and send our heartfelt condolences to all of his loved ones."

FAMOUS ARTISTS AT WORK

Small collection of the great artists in the habitat. It is one thing to see their work in museums and completely different angle when seeing them in the process. All these photos are intentionally mixed up – you will find both very famous and somewhat less popular painters, sculptors, architects and even their Muses.

JENNY SAVILLE

SALVADOR DALI

RON MUECK

PABLO PICASSO

MARKUS LUPERTZ

YUE MINJUN

JACKSON POLLOCK

FRANCIS BACON

EDVARD MUNCH

DAVID LYNCH

GUSTAVE CLARENCE RODOLPHE BOULANGER

FRIDAY KHALO

HANS HARTUNG

CLAUDE MONET

ALEXANDER CALDER

MARK CHAGALL

YANNIMA PIKARLI TOMMY WATSON

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

ANDY WARHOL