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First up, let us talk about scale: over 35ft in height, 75 in length. Sugar covered Styrofoam, dominating a vast hall at Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery. The public are dwarfed by the looming mammy-sphinx that cornerstones artist Kara Walker's...
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It's tempting to look back at the 1960s, especially '60s America, with a rose-tinted nostalgia. It was, it's true, a time of great positive change – but let's not forget what it cost to win those advancements in civil rights, and what else was...
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You must have had the sensation that your brains were going to come out of your nose. The time you tried poppers because you were drunk and there were no better drugs going around. The next morning when you sneezed during the world's worst hangover....
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Imagine if Pee-wee Herman was given full licence to decorate that Playhouse of his as he saw fit. Not a Pee-wee who’s literally twitching with a repressed campiness only the '80s could inflict, but a liberated, debauched Pee-wee, with a fun house...
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Based in Tokyo illustrator and graphic designer Kimiaki Yaegashi, aka Okimi, is responsible for some of the strangest imagery you’ll probably ever encounter. His bikini babe surrounded by a set of faithful sidekicks, with an endless appetite for...
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Members of Team We Heart are often to be found cowering under their desks, but there was a time during the height of the Cold War when this was positively encouraged by governments. As the fingers of power edged ever closer to the big red button,...
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No, it's not just you. Those are penises. Penises and tits and arse and teeth and the deconstructed, reconstructed everything that makes up the creative representation of a transvestite - looked upon as the “ultimate goddesses” by art collective...
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Traditional collages consist of cutting apart and stitching back together, with both the removal of the original context and the physical scar of the new join colouring the new piece. What would happen, though, if the stitcher was more a Beverley...
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Jean Jullien is a French graphic designer living and working in London. Originally from Nantes Jullien studied Graphic Design in Quimper before moving to London, where he graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2008 and the Royal College of Art in...
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Usually when a photographer misses half of their subject's body from a shot, that would be judged a failure destined to be discarded in the darkroom bin. Not so with Mark Cohen, whose work stands apart precisely because of his unusual crops, which...
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Julian Pablo Manzelli, aka StudioCHU aka Chu Doma is an artist, designer and animation director from Buenos Aires, Argentina. After a youth influenced by skateboarding culture, travel and biology, Manzelli graduated as graphic designer at the...
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You don't have to have a serious clinical problem to appreciate symmetry, order and repetition. It's all around us, every day, so it's no surprise that we are drawn to instances of these characteristics. They can be distracting, bring calm through...
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“I am not sure whether my father totally understood my fascination with his photographs of package holidays,” explains artist Jake Clark, whose obsession with seaside resort architecture has been informed by his childhood growing up in the...
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Opening today, 28 February, Hôtel Hana Paris is the latest addition to the Adresses Hotels Collection, a fancy group of decadent boutique hotels that includes Monsieur George and Saint Tropez's La Ponche; the five-star luxury property set to...
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Passing away at the age of 60 in May 2021, Michelangelo Lovelace was a Cleveland-based artist renowned for his vibrant paintings depicting quotidian scenes of urban life, policing, poverty, war, and personal investigations of Black Identity....
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An urban sanctuary so laid back it's horizontal, Pátio do Tijolo is a truly beautiful 24-room boutique hotel that offers its guests a fusion of authentic Lisbon tradition with soothing contemporary aesthetics. Drawing on the 'slow life' concept,...
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Looking for unique gift ideas from Japan? Discover 11 handcrafted treasures that embody the beauty and intricacy of Japanese craftsmanship. From elegant ceramics to traditional washi paper creations, each piece tells a story of artistry and...