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Braco Dimitrijević’s casual passersby – These people are not famous

Installations, Photography / 7 minutes of reading
Braco Dimitrijević’s Casual Passer-By series are a series of canvas-based photographs created as from 1971. The works feature large-scale images of people that the artist met in the streets. Each piece comes with the exact time and place where the artist met with the person. However, he did not always put the exact date. These […]

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Ian Strange burns down suburban houses in the name of art

Paintings, Performances / 3 minutes of reading
Suburban is a complex film and photography installation by New York-based Australian artist Ian Strange. Suburban was created by Strange as a result of a collaboration with a film crew and volunteers from different parts of America, including Alabama, Detroit, New Hampshire, Ohio and New York. Over the course of three months, Strange and the

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Zhang Huan – One of the most disgusting performance pieces ever made

Performances / 3 minutes of reading
Zhang Huan is no stranger to controversy. Having attended school when China was undergoing a dramatic time in its history, Zhang learned a lot from the years of protests and demonstrations that would be staged in front of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. As an avid fan of Avant-garde art, Zhang did not really have adequate

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Luke Jerram’s stunning moon replicas – Created from NASA imagery

Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Bristol native and artist Luke Jerram has an unerring knack for creating arresting public art projects. One of his recent works is Museum of the Moon, a model of the moon that was singlehandedly created by Jerram. It is so realistic in its detailing and features such that each centimeter of the spherical structure represents

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Eddo Hartmann’s Setting the Stage – North Korea in calm photos

Architecture, Photography / 7 minutes of reading
Despite being a highly secretive state, documentary images of North Korea have somehow managed to seep into the mainstream media in recent years. Those outsiders who have been granted access to the country are usually afforded limited freedom. As a result, the images they sneak out of the region typically are of totalitarian dictatorship, government-sanctioned

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Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds & His plan to retire from painting

Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Andy Warhol is no stranger to critical acclaim; his various works introduced thousands of audiences to contemporary art, which helped to put American artists on the map, and it waged war against abstract expressionism. Warhol effectively managed, time and time again, to shatter distinctions in art and he helped to reshape the aesthetic criteria that

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Qiu Zhijie – Luckily these are not real tattoos

Performances, Photography, Tattoos / 2 minutes of reading
Qiu Zhijie is well known for his capacity to add provoking new meanings to traditional Chinese calligraphy. In many of his works, Qiu incorporates calligraphy into modern media to fuse important elements from his culture into his art. His Tattoo series, released in 1994, explores the state of one’s independence and invisibility. Qiu’s ‘Tattoo’ series

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The scale of Anish Kapoor’s sculpture is frighteningly extraordinary

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading
North of Auckland, in a stretch of land called Gibbs Farms, sits Anish Kapoor’s Dismemberment, Site 1 (2009). The scale of this sculpture is frighteningly extraordinary and is the largest one that Kapoor has ever created; it is the height of an eight story building. How the work makes you feel Unsurprisingly, the sculpture makes

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Who is Korean painter Sea Hyun Lee?

Paintings / 2 minutes of reading
South Korea’s traditional illustrative and art history is immovable; however, cultural and artistic experimentation will always be relentless. Sea Hyun Lee demonstrates his understanding of just how true the above statement is through his art. He manages to join the two forces of past and present together to create Between the Red. Inspiration Sea Hyun

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Barry McGee’s tag murals – Walls covered with hundreds of red tags

Graffiti, Paintings / 5 minutes of reading
When the iconic gallerist Jeffrey Deitch swapped the East Coast for West Coast, many wondered about the state of street art in New York City. Granted, the newer generation of gallerists such as Joshua Liner and Jonathan Levine had become preeminent curators with their fresh take on street art. However, with his unlimited resources, Deitch

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Andreas Gursky’s Stock Exchanges – Humans reduced to a blob of color

Architecture, Photography / 2 minutes of reading
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor. He is most well known for large format architecture and landscape color photos, and following the 1990s, Gursky has been using technology and computers to edit and enhance his photos. First Stock Exchange photo in 1990 Gursky is known for using an elevated vantage point as his

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Alain Delorme’s Totem – Colorful madness in Shanghai

Photography / 3 minutes of reading
French artist Alain Delorme’s Totem series features images of towering stacks of objects that appear to teeter perilously like totem poles. His project name is ambiguous because it almost indicates that the project is about the dazzling heights of the Shanghai skyscrapers. However, the entire project focuses on migrants attempting and struggling to ferry their

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