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Photo Beth Hoeckel’s “Lips” (2013). Credit Image from “Babe” Last year, the pop star Rihanna posted a series of photographs on Instagram from a shoot for the French magazine Lui. In the photos, she’s sporting striking tan lines — and little else. Instagram objected, and the photos were deleted. Shortly after, Rihanna posted another image…
The day before my friend Tayler Smith and I found out our photo series was appropriated into the New Yorker, I woke up to a text message from another friend. We’re psychic sisters; she has a nightmare one night, I have one the morning after. Her message was a two-liner: “I see your imprint everywhere….
Thorlar Thorlarian describes himself as a “Pixel Art King,” and that’s not an empty boast. Witness his recreation of this BlizzCon 2010 wallpaper in Minecraft: It’s made up of over 1.1 million blocks, and took him more than 23 weeks to create. Even crazier, he did the entire thing by hand, without the aid of…
If they showed up in your Instagram stream, micahnotfound’s photos wouldn’t look like anything spectacular. They’d look cool of course — bright colors, collages, paper cutouts, and pop culture references galore — but they wouldn’t look amazing. That’s because the photos are meant to be viewed from the artist’s profile, all at once. It’s one big…
After breaking the news about her first post-grad, post-mattress artwork, a video that shows two people—one of whom is Sulkowicz—engaged in sexual activity, some of which alludes to rape (see Emma Sulkowicz Dives Into Art After Mattress Performance with Rape-Referencing Video), artnet News caught up with Emma Sulkowicz to discuss the video. The recent Columbia graduate, who…
Emma Sulkowicz, the recent Columbia graduate who has taken the Internet by storm thanks to her year-long performance art project Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight, released a video, which shows two people, one of whom appears to be Sulkowicz, engaged in sexual activity, some of which alludes to rape and can be difficult to watch at…
Director Vincenzo Natali spent years working on a movie adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, but it never came to fruition. Now he’s sharing art from the project, giving us a hint at what his Neuromancer movies might have looked like. In 2010, Natali came on board the Neuromancer adaptation, and we even saw…
Chances are you’ve heard the phrase, Steal like an Artist (it’s a book by Austin Kleon) and chance are you’ve heard the Picasso quote, Good artists copy, great artists steal. But do you understand them? Seems there are a great many people who don’t. Earlier in the month Todd Lockwood discovered portions of his paintings…
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Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish Welcome to rural Sweden, sometime in the late ’80s. Citizens go about their mundane lives and children explore the countryside. But something isn’t quite right. Robots and hovercrafts are commonplace, and decaying science facilities sprout from the harsh Scandinavian landscape. There’s even a…