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Cartoonist Robert Crumb was one of a long and continuing line of artists who used his medium as a form of confessional. In his particular case it was sexual quirks, committed to paper and, in his early career, destroyed in fits of guilt and shame....
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Even if you can't put a name to it, it's certain you've seen the painting technique known as cangiantismo before. Developed during the Rennaissance, it's a way of changing the hue of a colour within a model to introduce light and shade, but in the...
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There's nothing like a near death experience to make one throw off the shackles of convention and embrace one's true self, and the Second World War was that catalyst for a generation of artists. Elmer Batters and Eric Stanton were two such figures...
Journal
Give any hedonist worth their hydrochloride salts the chance to revisit the great nightclubs of history, and I'd wager the majority would make their first stop on the timewarp in late 1970s New York, and the cultural phenomenon that was Studio...
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You are all a bunch of inveterate narcissists. Well maybe not all of you, but statistically speaking, a great many people are. According to YouTube, 300 hours of video is being uploaded to its site every minute, and much of it makes the satirised...
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Who doesn't, in their quiet moments, like to take off their pants and let a porcelain Lassie sniff their butt? There's no need to be shy, it's not just you. It's the kind of thing that goes on all the time in Kostis Fokas's house. In fact debauchery...
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Sex sells, as the saying goes, and in a new exhibition of “para-photographer” Robert Heinecken we are treated to a satirical breakdown of the mechanics of the process. Lessons in Posing Subjects takes a wry look at how models are manipulated...
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The study of the nude form in the age of digital technology is the focus of Unlocked, a new program of events at Athens gallery Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture. Looking at how the Tumblr generation depicts the human body, Atopos Unlocked is a...
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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...
Interiors
British artist Sarah Lucas is perhaps not the first name you’d think of when commissioning someone to design a new furniture collection. Known for her cheeky sense of humour, visual puns and fondness for orifices (see 1997’s Chicken Knickers),...
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Barbara Nitke showed some admirable staying power in compiling American Ecstasy, which saw the American photographer spend 12 years on porn sets between 1982 and 1991 – a period considered the adult film industry's Golden Age. In the pre-internet...
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Dorothy Iannone is an artist with balls, and This Sweetness Outside of Time, a retrospective of her long and illustrious career, displays her unflinching autobiographical style in all its glory. Beginning her career in the late 1950s, the...
City Notes
The former Berol Yard Pencil Factory in Tottenham Hale is now home to The Gessner, a luxury development comprising 164 studios and apartments; the project by interior design studio, Fettle, and property developers, Way of Life, demonstrating a new...
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Strange Magic a solo exhibition from Queensland-born, Sydney-based Gerwyn Davies, is now on show at Brisbane's Jan Murphy Gallery, the photographic artist and costume maker having conjured up a set of vivid and varnished self-representations each...
City Notes
A member's club for a new world of work, Bureau provides the creative community of London with a place to work, network and mingle, turning its back on the stuffy tradition of such clubs and creating a modern workplace for the city's freelancers,...
City Notes
A number of hamlets have been transformed into luxury holiday residences in Vaucluse, southeast France. Part of the 16th-century Les Davids estate Les Hameaux des Davids is a 100-hectare estate in Viens, a medieval village between Avignon and...
Dispatches
Life can be complicated, and sometimes, complications can be interesting ... even fun. But they can also be exhausting, siphoning energy, that you need for other pursuits. At its best, simplicity allows you to reduce the distractions in your life so...
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Casino gaming is everywhere in the 21st century. From slot machines in bars, clubs and casinos to the multitude of mobile casino games available at your fingertips, it’s never been easier to roll the dice. However, it hasn’t always been like...
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The design psychology Casinos have been skillfully built in such a manner. It has been argued that they play on the flaws of human nature to ensure that you spend as much of your time in there as possible. While casinos were built using Bill...
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