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Ode to Gray
Lovers of gray “lack the passion that comes with loving a ‘real’ color.” And yet I yearn for it. I fill my drawers with gray brassieres. By Meghan Flaherty.
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Ugliness Is Underrated: In Defense of Ugly Paintings
If you, too, want to appreciate ugliness, the first thing you have to do is stop assuming that it is the inverse of beauty. By Katy Kelleher.
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How Yung Lean Outlived His Viral Moment
Yung Lean’s career arc could double as a blueprint for young artists looking to grow past viral internet moments.
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Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs
The price was astounding, even more so because some experts criticized a Christie’s marketing campaign that glossed over the painting’s flaws.
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Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Official Promo Video for Radiohead's "Paranoid Android".
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Artist Mark Bradford Unveils His Largest Work Yet, a Civil War Cyclorama at the Hirshhorn
The artist's homecoming, after a critically acclaimed pavilion in Venice, doesn't lack for ambition—or size.
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Inside the colorful, unpredictable studio of painter Cy Gavin
Teeth, skeletons and sea sponges fill the eclectic studio of this buzzed-about artist, who we visited upstate as he prepares for his first European solo show.
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Sorrow Nouveau
Sorrow Nouveau tendrils against metamodernism and is a return to new sincerity when composing Objet d’art in the 21st century. Lyrical abstraction bleeds Gesamtkunstwerk with authentic tenderness shown vividly and often is spectral. The sensitivity of these selected artists is blatantly apparent leaving the viewer forcibly informed of this sentiment.
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Hito Steyerl is 2017's most influential artist
Art is powerful. Or at least it’s the construct of powerful forces, not always of the positive kind. This is something Steyerl recognises. ‘Contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the internet, biennials, art fairs, parallel pop-up histories and growing income inequalities,’ she told The Guardian this year. ‘Let’s add asymmetric warfare, real-estate speculation, tax evasion, money laundering and deregulated financial markets.’ Steyerl makes the top slot on this list because she actively attempts to disrupt this nexus of power.
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Seances
Seances is an indefatigable film generating machine that deliberately creates films only to destroy them after their one and only viewing.
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The Art Of Anonymity: Burial's 'Untrue' Ten Years On
When Burial’s second LP, 'Untrue', first hit shelves there’s a fairly high chance you didn’t own a smartphone. The game-changing first iPhone had only debuted earlier in the year, and up until that point, the idea of a handheld computer that can make phone calls was still something of a gimmick-driven curiosity.
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Kara Walker’s Nightmares Are Our Own
Walker’s latest work is disturbing, but the horror it portrays belongs to the American subconscious.
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At Frieze London, Feminism Sells, Paul Chan Slumps, and Nothing Ever Changes
At the London mega-fair, a special exhibition champions (and de-politicizes) feminist art, Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, and political art is conspicuously absent.
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defining authentic design within today's digitally-driven age
at a time when technology advancements are changing the meaning of originality, experts within the field of design try to redefine what makes an authentic.
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Zen Champ: An Interview with Iglooghost
Defying the very limits of genre (as to be expected when signed to Flying Lotus' label), Iglooghost's eclecticism is primed for a breakthrough.
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7 Artists Who Are Testing the Limits of Glass-Making
From Thaddeus Wolfe to Amber Cowan, these artists are taking the medium in radical new directions.
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Iglooghost - 'Bug Thief'
Taken from ‘Neō Wax Bloom’ released 29th September 2017 via Brainfeeder.
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World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic
His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to become Europe’s kinkiest art export
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John Whitney’s Digital Harmony – On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art
“The dream of visual dynamism is the same; to leave behind earthbound stasis and to fly into that liquid space of numerical architecture without gravity” – John Whitney
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Overcoming Internet Disillusionment: On the Principles of Meme Design
“Artificial intelligence is not the answer to organized stupidity”—Johan Sjerpstra. “Please don’t email me unless you’re going to pay me”—Molly Soda. “Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter”—Laurie Penny. “Wonder how many people going on about the necessity of free speech and rational debate have blocked and muted trolls?”—Nick Srnicek. “Post-truth is to digital capitalism what pollution is to fossil capitalism—a by-product of operations”— Evgeny Morozov. “I have seen the troll army and it is us”—Erin Gün Sirer.
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