Kara Walker is a renowned artist who is best-known for using her art to explore gender, race and sexuality. Her current piece is housed in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., at the Domino Sugar Factory. A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby—at 75 feet long, 35 feet high and 26 feet wide, a molasses sphinx…

Whitney Houston’s family isn’t jumping for joy over the new Angela Bassett-directed Lifetime movie chronicling Houston’s life.  Apparently some of Houston’s family members feel that her life wasn’t made for the small screen and that the movie would do her story a disservice. “Whitney is certainly worthy of more than a television movie,” says Pat…

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and his wife, Janay Palmer, held a press conference Friday afternoon to speak about their domestic violence incident earlier this year.   In February Rice was charged with assault after an incident involving his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer. According to reports, Rice and Palmer were arguing at the Revel Casino…

Martin Lawrence will be returning to television this summer in the new buddy comedy series Partners. The half-hour series will star Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer as Chicago lawyers from vastly different backgrounds who develop a partnership after they unexpectedly meet in court on the worst day of their lives. Outside of making movies, Lawrence has made only…

It looks as if anyone planning on seeing the artist formerly known as Mos Def perform in the United States this summer is out of luck. The Brooklyn-born rapper, now known as Yasiin Bey, is having trouble reentering the country after moving to South Africa. According to a statement released by Together Boston, the festival…

You’d think a celebrity like Charlie Sheen, who’s always under the watchful eye of the paparazzi, would know how it feels to want to eat in peace at a restaurant. But it seems as though Sheen deems himself special enough to interrupt another celebrity while he or she is dining out. Sheen was out on…

Earlier this week, actor Michael Jace, best known as Detective Lowe from The Shield, was arrested on suspicion of murder charges after he called police to report that he’d shot his wife of 10 years, April Jace. Police arrived at Jace’s Los Angeles home Monday evening after responding to an alleged domestic violence incident. According…

It seems as though if it’s not one thing, it’s another when it comes to former Scandal star Columbus Short. On the heels of pleading not guilty to felony battery charges for allegedly being involved in a bar brawl in West Hollywood, Calif., in March, the 31-year-old actor is now accused of violating a restraining…

Giorgio Armani has tapped Oscar-nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis as the face of his Armani Junior fall ad campaign. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 10-year-old star of the upcoming Annie remake is the first major child celebrity to be the face of a luxury brand. In a statement released by Armani, he expressed his reasons…

Iranian police seem to have a problem with people being happy and dancing to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.” Seven men and women made a video of themselves singing along to the tune on rooftops in Tehran, and the video went viral within days. But there wasn’t a happy ending. Within four days of being posted to…