Category: Art
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Poetry and magic from Boa Mistura
Five years after Boa Mistura’s first project in Vila Brasilândia, the art collective returned to the São Paulo favela to bring some poesía y mágica to the alleyways.
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Analogue Loaders, behind the scenes
Analogue Loaders is the “animated autobiography” of Raphael Vangelis, where he turns well-known digital symbols into something analogue and playful.
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The Met makes 375,000 images free
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new policy known as Open Access, making 375,000 images of artworks freely available for unrestricted use (including commercial) in accordance with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation. The museum’s director and CEO, Thomas Campbell, said in a statement: “We have been working toward the goal of sharing our…
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Calvin Seibert’s modernist sandcastles
“Building ‘sandcastles’ is a bit of a test. Nature will always be against you and time is always running out.”
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Illustrated gifs capture post 9/11 NYC
Weeks after the dust of the fallen World Trade Towers had settled, a delivery bicycle locked to a traffic sign across the street from the destruction came to symbolise stories of unknown loss.
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Mona Hatoum: The Negotiating Table
When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, Mona Hatoum responded to the conflict with a performance piece called The Negotiating Table. “The room is dark, lit only by a light bulb over a table on which the artist lies motionless. Empty chairs surround the table. Her body is bloodstained, covered with entrails, wrapped in plastic, and…
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Things Organized Neatly, the book
Things Organized Neatly capitalises on our current obsession with photographing and cataloguing all the objects that we interact with on a daily basis.
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Glasgow High Street mural, by Smug
Sam Bates, aka Smug, is an Australian street artist in Glasgow. Here’s one of his latest pieces on the High Street. Glasgow High Street, photo by Corrie Martin It took about a week to paint, though still needs a few finishing touches to the hand. As far as I’m aware it depicts Mungo in modern-day…